Saturday, 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 07:06PMSaturday, August 6, 2011
Royal Opera House, LondonLast Tuesday the Mariinsky Ballet's two-day run of Don Quixote opened with Denis and Anastasia Matvienko in the lead roles of Basil and Kitri. The production, based …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMTuesday, August 2, 2011
A dancer from Hull has emerged from the shadows of the Royal Ballet to star in the legendary Russian company's ChopinianaThe current Covent Garden season by the Mariinsky Ballet has been a f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:16AMSaturday, July 30, 2011
Royal Opera House, LondonA half-century ago, the Kirov Ballet visited London for the first time. Known before the Russian revolution as the Imperial Russian Ballet, and today as the Mariinsk…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMMonday, July 25, 2011
Coliseum, LondonThe audience at the London Coliseum was treated to a thrilling display of virtuosity on Friday night when Ivan Vasiliev, the 22-year-old Bolshoi sensation, took the lead rol…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:58AMSaturday, July 9, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonAge can be cruel to dancers. To classical dancers, in particular, for whom performing is often a brutal struggle against nature. The human body is not designed for ball…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, July 2, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonAlain Platel is a choreographer and the founder of the Belgian new wave dance company Les Ballets C de la B, and Frank van Laecke is a theatre director. Together they h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMFriday, June 24, 2011
Chisenhale Dance Space; O2 Arena; Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, all LondonOff-radar and unfunded, the Chisenhale Dance Space is the nearest thing London has to an underground dance sce…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AMSaturday, June 18, 2011
Kevin O'Hare is a popular choice for artistic director, but the company may have missed its cue to shake off that cosy Englishness. No such problems at National Dance Company WalesThe announ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, June 11, 2011
Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, LondonMichael Clark, choreographer, ex-heroin addict, and pin-up boy of the 1980s Blitz kids, is 50 next year. And while his work continues to develop and refine w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMTuesday, June 7, 2011
Being spat at by a naked dancer during St-Pierre's Un Peu de Tendresse was deeply unpleasant, but it is the pretentious and sexist show that is more objectionableIn today's Daily Mail, Quent…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:49AMSunday, June 5, 2011
Royal Opera House, LondonIn Scènes de ballet, choreographed in 1948, Frederick Ashton created a work of unanswerable formal perfection. The Stravinsky score, which Ashton discovered while l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:45AMFriday, June 3, 2011
In its crass attempt to shock, this Sadler's Wells show provided the most unpleasant moment I've experienced in the theatreWe all knew that the Dave St-Pierre show Un Peu de Tendresse, Borde…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:53AMSaturday, May 28, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonRambert Dance Company's current triple bill is evidence of a company testing its limits and seeking to expand them. The evening starts undemandingly, with Henrietta Hor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, May 21, 2011
Royal Opera House, LondonGeorge Balanchine choreographed Ballo della Regina in 1978 to music from Verdi's Don Carlos. Fraught with technical challenge, it was created as a showcase for the p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, May 14, 2011
Sadler's Wells; The Place, both LondonIt's a man's world at the ballet. At least it is when Hans van Manen is in charge. Eighty next year, the Dutch choreographer is one of the founding fath…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, May 7, 2011
Sadler's Wells; The Place, both LondonMaría Pagés is a Spanish flamenco dancer whose career has embraced decades of international touring, film-work with Carlos Saura, and even a stint wit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, April 30, 2011
Eden Court, InvernessThere's a sequence in Act 2 of Scottish Ballet's Alice when the young heroine is lured into the toils of a giant spider, and it's hard not to see this as a metaphor for …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMMonday, April 18, 2011
The Royal Ballet is at crossroads – its current artistic director, Monica Mason, is about to retire and the search is on for a successor who will guard the company's rich classical heritag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMSaturday, April 16, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonAnne Teresa De Keersmaeker is a Belgian choreographer and the director of the dance company Rosas, founded by her in 1983. An original member of the Belgian new wave, 5…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMAs the Royal Ballet recruits a new artistic director, we look back at the highlights of Monica Mason's decade at the helmLuke Jennings
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, April 9, 2011
Robin Howard Dance theatre, LondonThe Place prize is dance's equivalent of the Turner or Man Booker prizes. Awarded annually, and sponsored by the business news organisation Bloomberg, it's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMWednesday, March 30, 2011
The controversy over Natalie Portman's dance double reveals the culture clash between Hollywood's colossal budgets and the underfunded world of balletFeathers are continuing to fly over Blac…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMSaturday, March 26, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe Venezuelan-born choreographer Javier de Frutos is a volatile talent. At its best, in pieces such as Paseillo and Nopalitos, his work has a dream-like intensity and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:05PMSaturday, March 19, 2011
Royal Opera House, LondonIt's been a strange week for the Royal Ballet's Marianela Nuñez. On Tuesday she made her debut in the title role of Christopher Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Won…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:05PMSaturday, March 12, 2011
Grand theatre, Leeds; Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, LondonWhen asked what they want to be in life, most schoolchildren reportedly say that they want to be famous. Like hyper-ambitious …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, March 5, 2011
Royal Opera House, LondonThe strongest scene in the Royal Ballet's new production of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon, opens with Alice (Lauren Cuthber…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10PMSaturday, February 26, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonAt the beginning of the Forsythe Company's I Don't Believe in Outer Space, the dancer Dana Caspersen, wife of the choreographer William Forsythe, voices a bizarre dialo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, February 19, 2011
artsdepot, LondonAll-male dance companies are something of an anomaly. At one end of the scale you've got the Trocks in drag, at the other the dickie-bowed Chippendales rippling their pecs …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, February 12, 2011
Royal Ballet of Flanders, Vlaamse Opera, Antwerp; Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, LondonStriking the right balance between the old and the new is the hardest task facing today's ballet d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM 
