Royal Opera House, LondonThe Canadian choreographer cuts to the heart with the Royal Ballet’s first new work by a female dance-maker in 18 yearsThe Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite is o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AMSadler’s Wells, LondonSergei Polunin’s new triple bill tries to find a way forward outside a traditional career – but extracurricular activities have taken a visible tollSince 2012, wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AMBarbican, LondonJulie Cunningham’s first works as head of her own company have passion and subtlety, but struggle to compete with a forceful spoken soundtrackWhen dancers become choreograp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMRich Mix, LondonParsons proves himself a distinctive narrative voice with his compelling new work about a fictional celebrityWayne Parsons is a familiar figure on the UK contemporary dance s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMBarbican, LondonSensuality, isolation and identity are explored in three stellar works by this joyous Cuban troupeThere can be few dance companies in the world as handsome and accomplished a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMThe detail, the exquisite control, the lyrical flow ... this clip shows why Kirkland remains a cherished legend of American balletThis is Gelsey Kirkland dancing the Act 1 variation, or solo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMWant to be a ballerina? No problem. But any girl dreaming of a career in choreography had better mind the glass ceiling…As a nation we are well supplied with choreographers. Matthew Bourne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMRichmond theatre, LondonWorks from the choreographer’s early career show all his trademark wit, originality and eye for detailThe three works comprising Matthew Bourne’s Early Adventures…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMSadler’s Wells, LondonThe choreographer’s piece inspired by Lisbon is sunny and seductive, but ultimately insubstantialIn 1997 the German choreographer Pina Bausch took the dancers of he…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMBarbican, LondonTop dancers, Javier de Frutos choreography, Philip Glass score and Cocteau’s twisted tale don’t quite add upJean Cocteau’s 1929 novel Les Enfants Terribles is the story…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMThe Pit, Barbican, LondonDewey Dell’s weird, manga comics-inspired show is an intriguing curio that overstays its welcomeDewey Dell are an Italian experimental performance group that, sinc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AMColiseum, LondonEnglish National Ballet guest artist Xander Parish – British star of the Mariinsky – is world-class. Isn’t it time he was lured back to London?Mary Skeaping’s product…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMRoyal Opera House, LondonWayne McGregor’s ambitious triptych based on the multi-dimensional works of Virginia Woolf was a gamble that has paid off in exhilarating styleWhen the final curta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMBarbican, LondonHip-hop dance crew Boy Blue Entertainment tackle the nature of identity in an awesome three-part showBoy Blue Entertainment is a hip-hop dance company founded in 2002 by the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMGrand theatre, LeedsDominique Larose’s serene Beauty leads the way in David Nixon’s timely take on the fairytaleNorthern Ballet’s Beauty and the Beast is a traditional fairy story chor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMSadler’s Wells, LondonBourne’s deft and sumptuous new adaptation of The Red Shoes sticks closely to Powell and Pressburger’s film, but is still finding its feet dramaticallyMatthew Bou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMColiseum, LondonBoris Eifman’s reworking of F Scott Fitzgerald is beautifully danced but stunningly insensitiveBoris Eifman is one of Russia’s most prolific choreographers. In 1977, aged…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMTimes were tough but inventive, with fine work from old hands and female dance-makers forcing change• Observer critics’ reviews of the year in fullThis has been a year in which experienc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMSadler’s Wells, LondonMichael Keegan-Dolan has moved Swan Lake to the middle of Ireland and made it a thing of wonderThere are so many new versions of Swan Lake, and almost all of them are…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMHackney Showroom, LondonImpermanence Dance Theatre are going on a sexploration, delving into the ideas of Wilhelm Reich and the pioneering electronic music of Ursula BognerImpermanence Dance…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMLilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells, LondonHetain Patel swaggers, sashays and speaks out in his deeply unsettling satire on misogynyHetain Patel is a performance artist from Bolton whose …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMSadler’s Wells, LondonRambert dance Haydn beautifully, but was the Garden of Eden quite this decorous?Mark Baldwin, artistic director of Rambert, is not a man to shrink from a challenge. J…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMRoyal Opera House; the Place, LondonWayne McGregor celebrates a decade at the Royal Ballet with dystopias and dreamy la-la lands. And Charlotte Vincent patrols the pre-teen battlegroundIn ce…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:31AMSadler’s Wells, LondonChoreographer Iván Pérez’s attempt to conjure up the horrors of trench warfare is overlong and over-beautifiedThe suffering of the young men who fought in the fir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:31PMJerwood Dance House, IpswichArthur Pita’s latest is a little bit Snow White, a little bit HellraiserArthur Pita is one of today’s most original choreographic voices. He’s an accomplish…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMRoyal Opera House, LondonFine performances lift this Royal Ballet revival of MacMillan’s strange ballet about the woman who claimed to be a lost RomanovIn 1967 Kenneth MacMillan choreograp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMSadler’s Wells, LondonJérôme Bel’s mixed ability show is full of charm, if not entirely artlessJérôme Bel is a French choreographer whose work challenges the conventions of dance as …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:56AMBirmingham HippodromeDavid Bintley’s uninvolving new version of The Tempest is symptomatic of an identity crisis in British balletThe Tempest, David Bintley’s new work for Birmingham Roy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AMRoyal Albert Hall; Barbican, LondonCarlos Acosta bids a glorious goodbye, while Michael Clark keeps ploughing his weird and wonderful furrowLast week Carlos Acosta, the greatest male classic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:08AMPalace theatre, ManchesterEnglish National Ballet’s dancers delight in Khan’s 21st-century Giselle. All it needs now is a plot…Akram Khan’s new production of Giselle for English Nati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:51AMSadler’s Wells, LondonSix dancers move as one in Sharon Eyal’s gravely beautiful exploration of the obsessive-compulsive stateL-E-V is an Israeli dance company created by choreographer S…
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