Friday, March 28, 2025
Sadler’s Wells East, LondonJules Cunningham explores themes of marginalisation in a masterful collaboration with Le Tigre’s JD Samson and a piece that echoes Merce Cunningham
Last time J…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMThursday, March 20, 2025
Sadler’s Wells, LondonMerce Cunningham’s demands on dancers are the stuff of legend, but as in the celebration of two of his classic works here, utterly essential
Merce Cunningham was al…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMSunday, March 16, 2025
Hackney Empire, LondonOyinkan Braithwaite’s novel My Sister, the Serial Killer is the inspiration for Cassa Pancho’s dramatic ballet, accompanied by Chanel DaSilva’s A Shadow Work
Putt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMThursday, March 13, 2025
Sadler’s Wells, LondonPairing Brown’s classic Working Title with Soulier’s recent In the Fall shows off both choreographers’ highly skilled simplicity
In these times of shrinking art…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMThe role has inspired the world’s best ballerinas and her story is as popular as ever – whether revived, reimagined or deconstructed. Dancers explain the appeal of Giselle
‘I thought I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMWednesday, March 12, 2025
As she brings A Shadow Work to the UK, the New York choreographer talks about therapy, ‘pulling up women with me’ and art-led activism
Chanel DaSilva has always been a dancer. “I felt …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMMonday, March 10, 2025
Leeds PlayhousePhoenix Dance Theatre’s artistic director Marcus Jarrell Willis brings an urgency and groove to a tale of hunger, tenderness and sexual identity
In the centre of a minimal s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AMFriday, March 7, 2025
Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, LondonNatalia Osipova steps into Martha Graham and Isadora Duncan’s shoes in a mischievous triple bill which also acts as a statement of intent
Dancers …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32PMSunday, March 2, 2025
Sadler’s Wells East, LondonIndian-American dancer Prakash dismantles the myth of a female goddess granted power by men
As a child, Mythili Prakash was always puzzled by the myth around the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMFriday, February 28, 2025
The beloved tale got Turks applauding and Saudis cheering. How will it be received in Britain? We meet the team behind a high-flying, dance-circus rejig
After the Bible, The Little Prince is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMSadler’s Wells, LondonWith quiet choreography and a focus on solos and duos, there is some incredibly tender movement in a captivating show that gives a sense of rippling through water
The…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMWednesday, February 26, 2025
The Place, LondonCarlos Pons Guerra turns Puccini’s tragedy into the story of a Cuban sex worker who completely transforms himself to win the love of a sailor
This reimagining of Madame Bu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMFriday, February 21, 2025
Sadler’s Wells East, LondonThere is a cartoonishness at play, but a coldness too, in this shadowy tribute to the ‘weirdo’ outsider
Birdboy is billed as a show for audiences aged from s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMThursday, February 20, 2025
Aviva Studios, ManchesterCrystal Pite and Simon McBurney’s three-act dance work on the state of the world turns the stage into a living thing and morphs between sorrow, humour, fear and re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMWednesday, February 19, 2025
From Matilda to Dear England, she is the movement director everyone wants to work with – and her work has lit up hit after smash hit. But, she says, it’s time this under-appreciated art …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMSunday, February 16, 2025
Sadler’s Wells, LondonWith its off-kilter comedy and flirtatious touches, this show is Bausch at her most accessible – and beautiful
There is some absolute beauty in Vollmond, one of the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMFriday, February 14, 2025
From young office workers to a ‘Granny Grappler’, women are being shown how to throw their weight around in WrestleLadsWrestle. Its creator, a former judo champion, tells us why
‘Find …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMSunday, February 9, 2025
Christos Papadopoulos took the award for his glacially paced, illusory Larsen C, beating a shortlist that largely eschewed traditional formal techniques and structures• The Rose Internatio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32PMSadler’s Wells East, LondonVicki Igbokwe-Ozoagu captures all the fun and mini-drama of a great night out, creating a suitably feelgood celebration to welcome this new dance venue
It’s a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMFriday, February 7, 2025
Ballet has always been more than just a job for Carlos Acosta. And as director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, he is trying to make it bigger than ever – even in the face of brutal cuts and th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMSunday, February 2, 2025
The Place, LondonSean Gandini’s intricate and artful show about magic shows plays with the audience and the malleable sense of reality
There’s a quote, Sean Gandini tells us, from the Fr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMWednesday, January 29, 2025
Royal Opera House, LondonMthuthuzeli November expertly fuses ballet, contemporary and South African dance in Fools. Plus five minutes of fun from Kristen McNally and Rudi van Dantzig’s Fou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMFriday, January 24, 2025
Southbank Centre, LondonDewey Dell bring resonant energy to reinvent one of the most frequently revisited pieces in dance history
The backspinning b-boy spiders are a revelation. And the lar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMWednesday, January 22, 2025
Barbican, LondonLittle happens in this wordless show about an Irish navvy who lives a lonely existence and yearns for home but it is oddly affecting
One egg cup on the shelf, one tin mug, on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMThursday, January 16, 2025
Royal Albert Hall, LondonA clown’s funeral procession is the pretext for some of the most skilled performers in the business to swoop, float and fly through the air
There’s a procession …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMSunday, January 12, 2025
The Place, LondonYouthful ambition and vision always charge the atmosphere with optimism at this festival of future dance talent
For 35 years The Place has been offering up an abundance of b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PMFriday, January 10, 2025
Performer and choreographer who fused ballet with South African contemporary dance styles
More than a profession, dance was a calling and an innate need for the South African performer and c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMFriday, January 3, 2025
Sadler’s Wells’ new purpose-built space is a reflection of the booming popularity of the art form in the capital. But is all this success representative of the country as a whole? And if…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMWednesday, January 1, 2025
Gary Oldman’s tackling Beckett, Strictly winner Chris McCausland is on a huge standup tour – and mods can rev their scooters to a dance Quadrophenia Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMFriday, December 20, 2024
Royal Festival Hall, LondonBorrowing from Swan Lake and the Ugly Duckling, Circa deliver wow moments and ornate arrangements as the dancers move in finely tuned equilibrium
Australian compan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMTuesday, December 17, 2024
Sarah Snook put Succession behind her, Hofesh Shechter found horror in Albion and Rhod Gilbert was ecstatic to be alive, in our critics’ picks of the best stage shows of the year
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:02AM 
