Saturday, May 12, 2012
Sadler's Wells; Royal Opera House; both LondonAngelin Preljocaj is one of the grands noms of French choreography. Of Albanian origin, he trained in classical ballet before turning to contemp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, April 28, 2012
Sadler's Wells; Royal Opera House, LondonWatching the second cast of Liam Scarlett's Sweet Violets at the Royal Opera House last week I was reminded of George Balanchine's dictum that "there…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, April 7, 2012
Coliseum, LondonThe Russian choreographer Boris Eifman arrived in London last week following a New York season that saw him greeted with mixed reviews. According to the online magazine NYC D…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, March 24, 2012
Set in a Palladian villa in Richmond Park, White Lodge is already one of the most fiercely competitive schools in the country. But young British dancers are finding it tougher than ever Cont…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMSaturday, March 17, 2012
Royal Opera House, London; Sadler's Wells, LondonWhen she was 16, Melissa Hamilton was turned down by the Royal Ballet School. A late starter, she had grown up in Northern Ireland, where goo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04PMSaturday, March 10, 2012
Sadler's Wells; Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonNDT2 is an offshoot of Nederlands Dans Theater, the contemporary dance ensemble that achieved worldwide fame in the latter decades of the 20th cen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, March 3, 2012
Linbury Studio theatre, LondonCreating repertoire for a chamber ballet company is tricky. How do you ring the changes, given sparse resources and a mere handful of dancers? Ballet Black, now…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:09PMSaturday, February 25, 2012
Birmingham Hippodrome; Linbury Studio, LondonDavid Bintley created Hobson's Choice in 1989 for the Royal Ballet touring company which was soon to sever its links with Covent Garden and becom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, February 11, 2012
Royal Opera House; Sadler's Wells, LondonFollowing Sergei Polunin's abrupt departure from the Royal Ballet, last Monday's opening night of The Dream saw Steven McRae assume the lead role of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, December 31, 2011
A 'banana millionaire', a pair of Bolshoi defectors, an avant-garde Spaniard and an all-powerful agent are the principals in this power struggleOn 15 December, during a nationwide TV broadca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMFriday, December 2, 2011
The detail, the exquisite control, the lyrical flow ... this clip shows why Kirkland remains a cherished legend of American ballet Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:53AMSaturday, November 12, 2011
The Place, LondonMichelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was a dangerous man. Violent and sexually profligate, he murdered a pimp, escaped from prison, and was the victim of a vendetta, dying befo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMThursday, November 10, 2011
Choreographed by Nureyev, what marks out this astounding performance is its restraintIf there was ever such a thing as "the English style" in ballet, its male exemplar was Anthony Dowell. Lo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:17PMSaturday, November 5, 2011
Royal Opera House, LondonKenneth MacMillan's Manon, which had its premiere in 1974, is set in one of the most decadent periods in French history: the regency of Philippe d'Orléans, which fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMThursday, November 3, 2011
The arms have it – what performers create with them elevates dance beyond language, be it hip-hop or balletOur link to last week's clip of Sarah Lamb and Federico Bonelli is swans. Here is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:20PMSaturday, October 29, 2011
Peacock theatre, LondonWhen Into the Hoods opened at the Novello theatre in 2008, it was the West End's first hip-hop show and it would mark the evolution of British hip-hop from a street fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMThursday, October 27, 2011
In this clip of a detached duet from Wayne McGregor's Chroma you can clearly see the classical roots beneath his modern styleLast week we watched a clip of Yuri Soloviev, the Kirov dancer, a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:37AMSaturday, October 22, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonCheckmate, the chess ballet choreographed in 1937 by Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet, is a revered heritage piece. So revered, in fact, that its turgid p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMThursday, October 20, 2011
Behind the iron curtain, Russian dancers meant business. In this spectacular piece, Yuri Soloviev leaps almost to his own head heightLast week we saw Alla Sizova dancing in Le Corsaire in 19…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:45AMSaturday, October 15, 2011
Royal Opera House, LondonThe Royal Ballet's Marguerite and Armand has dated since its creation by Frederick Ashton in 1963. Originally a vehicle for Nureyev and Fonteyn, the piece tells the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMFriday, October 14, 2011
Do you know your entrechats from your fouettés? What Beyoncé learned from Betty Page? In a new weekly column looking at dance in detail, Luke Jennings takes a closer look at the dazzling f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:23AMTuesday, October 11, 2011
Works of art often reference other works of art, so is the Belgian choreographer right to accuse the R&B star of plagiarism in her new music video?To read about Beyoncé Knowles and Anne Te…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:17AMSaturday, October 8, 2011
Barbican, LondonChoreographer Merce Cunningham was a pioneer of 20th-century American modernism. His career was epic in scale, spanning 67 years and more than 180 productions. Cunningham die…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMThe choreographer best known for long-running West End hit Into the Hoods on her new work, Some Like It Hip HopYour new show, Some Like It Hip Hop, performed by ZooNation Dance Company, was …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, October 1, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe Canadian choreographer Édouard Lock formed La La La Human Steps in 1980 as a vehicle for his high-energy dance works. Intense, precise and often confrontational pi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMThursday, September 29, 2011
The ex-Beatle wrote the score for Ocean's Kingdom and his daughter Stella made the costumes – what could possibly go wrong? A damp squib of a story, that's whatWell, the critical verdicts …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:51AMSaturday, September 24, 2011
Royal Opera House; Linbury Studio, LondonThere was something infinitely poignant about George Balanchine's obsession with Suzanne Farrell. The year was 1967. He was the 63-year-old director …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, September 17, 2011
Curve theatre, LeicesterIn the opening moments of Desh (homeland), Akram Khan walks on to the stage in shirt and dhoti trousers. His tread is weary and he is holding a lamp, as if clocking o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:31PMSaturday, September 10, 2011
Sadler's Wells, London EC1You have to pay attention during a production by the Flemish-Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui; there's invariably a lot going on. Minutes into TeZukA, hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:26PMSaturday, September 3, 2011
Edinburgh Playhouse; King's theatre, Edinburgh; Edinburgh zooThe Finnish choreographer Jorma Elo is resident choreographer at Boston Ballet. Popular and prolific, he has made work for numero…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, August 27, 2011
Birmingham HippodromeThe Guangdong Acrobatic Troupe of China was established in 1951, and since then has performed all over the world. The UK first saw the company's extraordinary version of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM 
