Friday, 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 02:02AMSunday, December 15, 2024
London Coliseum Artistic director Aaron S Watkin oversees a faintly surreal Edwardian setting of dancing chimney sweeps, suffragettes and Liquorice Allsorts in a sweet but not sickly product…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMTuesday, December 10, 2024
At 98, the choreographer has lost none of his love for dance – or his scathing wit. As his classic Nutcracker is performed again, he talks about grit, the ‘rubbish’ classics and direct…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24PMMonday, December 9, 2024
Apollo theatre, LondonThere’s plenty of festive, fact-filled fun at this kids’ show hosted by the cheery TV presenter
Maddie Moate’s USP is maximum enthusiasm. She never stops smiling,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMFriday, December 6, 2024
Sadler’s Wells, LondonClaire Cunningham’s affecting solo performance is a meditation on how we find our way along unexpected paths
A dance performance that credits two mountaineering con…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMThursday, November 21, 2024
Sadler’s Wells, LondonIn a production loosely based on the Mahabharata, Khan has gathered classical Indian dancers who create a world that echoes through the centuries
Akram Khan is at an …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMTuesday, November 19, 2024
Dancer and choreographer who rose to fame with Alvin Ailey’s company in New York and became its artistic director
It was a failed audition that set in motion the superlative career of the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36PMFriday, November 15, 2024
Royal Opera House, LondonWayne McGregor’s take on the novelist’s complex tale is ambitious, beautiful and, though wanting in some parts, redeemed by incredible performances
It makes comp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AMSunday, November 10, 2024
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonPairs of dancers exactly in time with each other act out Anthony Hamilton’s hypnotic contemporary dance algorithm
It looks a bit like Janet Jackson’s Rhythm N…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMFriday, November 8, 2024
Linbury theatre, LondonSophie Laplane’s If at First switches so fast stylistically that it might be garbled, while Mthuthuzeli November’s The Waiting Game stages an existential crisis
So…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AM 
