Saturday, 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 07:05PMSaturday, February 5, 2011
Sadler's Wells, London; Jerwood Dance House, IpswichIt's hard to imagine a piece more perfectly tailored to American Ballet Theatre's dancers than Alexei Ratmansky's Seven Sonatas. Performed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMWednesday, February 2, 2011
This 30-second scrap of film showing Diaghilev's famed Ballets Russes in action represents one of dance's great discoveriesThe Ballets Russes, founded in 1910 by the Russian impresario Serge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:23PMSaturday, January 29, 2011
Royal Opera House, LondonI'd love not to mention Darren Aronofsky's film Black Swan this week, but I can't resist telling you that according to Royal Ballet director Monica Mason, the Covent…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, January 22, 2011
ICA, LondonAkhe Engineering Theatre defies categorisation. Presented under the banner of the 2011 London International Mime festival, its latest piece, Gobo. Digital Glossary, offers an expl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, January 15, 2011
Royal Opera House, LondonWhat a difference a day makes. On Tuesday's first night of Giselle, the Royal Ballet's Tamara Rojo gave a heart-rending account of the title role, miraculous in its …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, January 8, 2011
Coliseum, LondonIn Rudolf Nureyev's copy of Romeo and Juliet, the following quotation from Act 1 was underlined: "Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars,/ Shall bitterly begin his fearf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, January 1, 2011
Wayne McGregor has spent 18 years at the cutting edge of choreography. Now the dynamic outsider of British dance has won the establishment seal of approval in the New Year honours list"I was…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PMSaturday, December 25, 2010
Royal Festival Hall, London; Royal Opera House, LondonHip-hop dance has come a long way in recent years, but with the exception of ZooNation's Into the Hoods has had trouble establishing its…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, December 18, 2010
Coliseum, London; Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, London; ROH, LondonThere's a particular frisson that can exist between an established ballerina and a younger male dancer – Fonteyn an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, December 11, 2010
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe challenge facing any choreographer of the Cinderella story is Prokofiev's score. Written during the second world war, it has a sombre undertow which lends its roman…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMThe Observer's dance critic recalls the year's outstanding classical and contemporary performancesTwo British choreographers made my year in 2010: Akram Khan and Liam Scarlett. In April, Kha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PMSaturday, December 4, 2010
Spanish dancer Tamara Rojo has enjoyed top billing at the Royal Ballet for more than a decade, but she believes her best years are yet to comeIf you walked past Tamara Rojo in the street, y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMRoyal Opera House, London; Birmingham HippodromeThe message of Cinderella is one of hope: that virtue will be rewarded, and that the darkest night will be followed by the dawn. Frederick Ash…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSharp, passionate and insightful, Jennifer Homans offers little hope for ballet surviving as an art formJennifer Homans's history of the art, culture and political context of ballet is like …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, November 27, 2010
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe Jasmin Vardimon Company was founded in 1997, and since then the Israeli-born choreographer has consistently intrigued audiences with her knotty, passionately driven…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:09PMSaturday, November 20, 2010
Sadler's Wells, LondonA new McGregor piece is always a challenge. There's the sensually complex work on stage to engage with, and there is the equally demanding task of following the choreog…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, November 13, 2010
Sadler's Wells, LondonRambert's new triple bill opens with Christopher Bruce's Hush, a saccharine-dusted slice of whimsy to music by Bobby McFerrin which sees a family of white-faced clowns …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, May 15, 2010
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM 
