Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Mimi’s Shebeen, choreographed by Alesandra Seutin, charts South African legend’s exile and ascendancy with ‘beautiful songs, strong messages and moments that hit’
“You speak about …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AMTuesday, October 14, 2025
What will the ballet dancer of the future look like? We visit the hunting lodge where the next generation are being trained – and find huge changes are under way
It’s an idyllic autumn …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMMonday, October 6, 2025
As her company prepares to celebrate its centenary, the legendary choreographer’s groundbreaking work is finally getting the respect it deserves in the UK. What took so long?
A century ago…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMFriday, October 3, 2025
Sadler’s Wells East, LondonDance Umbrella festival opens with a bold yet alienating piece inspired by mythology and magical realism
It’s as if you’ve turned up at the party when they�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMSadler’s Wells, LondonIn a stunning evening, fearless and faultless dancers deliver a trio of classics, ending with a gorgeous yet more subdued piece by David Dawson
English National Balle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24AMMonday, September 29, 2025
Bristol Beacon Composer Jóhann Jóhannson’s moody film, narrated by Swinton and inspired by a classic novel, gains little from a live dance interpretation
Is it possible for the apocalyp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMFriday, September 19, 2025
The choreographer has paired the tragedies of Oedipus Rex and Antigone in a monumental double bill, Jocasta’s Line, which refuses to spoon-feed audiences
When Stravinsky composed Oedipus R…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMTuesday, September 16, 2025
The internationally feted choreographer has worked with pop megastars, a sculptor and the monks of the Shaolin Temple. Now he is tackling the cultural divisions and colonial legacy of his ho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AMSunday, September 14, 2025
Sadler’s Wells, LondonAlina Cojocaru is breathtaking, Ratmansky’s music zings and Joseph Taylor gets a fantastic angry solo
It’s exciting when artists push boundaries, melt genres, re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMFriday, September 12, 2025
Peacock theatre, LondonStarting from a single dancer, an intricate moving patterns of limbs forms a complex weave of shifting patterns in Sadeck Berrabah’s technically impressive show
Ther…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMWednesday, September 10, 2025
Frauke Requardt and Vivienne Franzmann’s dance-theatre show Anatomy of Survival examines 23 versions of reality in ‘powder keg’ cities
One morning, playwright Vivienne Franzmann was qu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24AMThursday, September 4, 2025
Southbank Centre, LondonA cast of 80 spray-paint the pavement, parade a 40-phone selfie stick and bring dirty bass to ballet in (La)Horde’s night of sensational dance morsels
A black stret…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMThursday, August 28, 2025
Andrea Riseborough and Sarandon deliver a decade-hopping drama, superstar standups hit the road and Shobana Jeyasingh rewrites Shakespeare
• See the rest of our unmissable autumn arts prev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMWednesday, August 20, 2025
Rachael Gunn’s disastrous summer at the Paris Games in 2024 has inspired a silly show about ‘Spraygun’ but its jibes are unfair
Everyone can have a bad day at the office. But for most …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMTuesday, August 19, 2025
Several portrayals of the royal’s tumultuous life take place in Edinburgh this month, each examining her relationship with Elizabeth I and challenging the narrative of two women at war
‘…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMSurprise finds at the festival include a sweet kids’ show about embracing your differences and a beautifully choreographed martial arts duet, in a year with work-in-progress energy
For sta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMSunday, August 17, 2025
Summerhall, EdinburghWe’re just sensory-seeking animals, says choreographer Léa Tirabasso, with a high-energy hour performed by six impressive dancers
The surrealist worlds of choreograph…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32PMFestival theatre, EdinburghMary births a balloon and Elizabeth I towers on stilts in Sophie Laplane and James Bonas’s production about the queens’ distant relationship
The second half of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03AMSaturday, August 16, 2025
Assembly Hall, EdinburghAustralian circus act Gravity and Other Myths allow the audience an up-close insight into how they mastered their extraordinary craft
This may be the ideal festival s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PMSunday, August 10, 2025
Underbelly Circus Hub on the Meadows, EdinburghBrisbane’s Circa are consummate pros, achieving acrobatic feats edged with animal instincts
Some circus shows start with relatively simple tr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12PMSaturday, August 9, 2025
Old College Quad, EdinburghLebanese choreographer Omar Rajeh’s outdoor dance fizzes with communal energy but its overstuffed concept blunts its political impact
What you might not have exp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMSaturday, August 2, 2025
Everyone from Harry Styles to Selena Gomez has been captivated by the French choreographer’s stunning trampoline performance. Now he’s bringing a new work to the UK, featuring a revolvin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PMSunday, July 20, 2025
Tharp picked up a Golden Lion award for her experimental and accessible choreography, while Carolina Bianchi won a Silver Lion for her fearless exploration of sexual assault
‘Do you know h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMMonday, July 14, 2025
A new season at London’s Southbank Centre is inspired by Emma Warren’s book Dance Your Way Home, about the potency of communal movement. She and other artists involved explain why the da…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48AMThursday, July 10, 2025
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonNew York company Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s take on the US president is an ideas-packed, dance-adjacent comedy inspiring whoops and walkouts
Is this show geni…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMThursday, July 3, 2025
Emerald theatre, LondonA regal Von Teese oversees this uninspiring mix of chandelier-swinging cabaret, circus and dance featuring the Steps singer as a saloon owner with a string of exes
Som…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06PMSadler’s Wells East, London Taking rests when required, Candoco’s integrated company capture the paradox of dancefloor abandonment
Choreographer Dan Daw and the dancers from Candoco are …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMThursday, June 26, 2025
Get ready for gravity-defying acrobats, electrically stimulated dancers and a punk ballet take on Mary, Queen of Scots
The Quebec company We All Fall Down got good word-of-mouth at last year…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMSadler’s Wells, LondonPete Townshend’s tragic story of teenage angst returns to the stage in a visceral dance production full of the original’s swagger and bravado
The Quadrophenia era…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMWednesday, June 25, 2025
Sadler’s Wells East, London Circling between quiet sparse scenes and amazing bursts of movement, this is an intense hour from an artist really hitting his stride
Sometimes choreographers u…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMFriday, June 20, 2025
Musician John Grant was blown away by Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 novel, finding deep resonances in its tale of gay love and loss. Now, he’s put songs to choreographer Jonathan Watkins�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AM 
