Sunday, December 17, 2023
The Place, LondonThough often more associated with abstract contemporary dance, Scottish Dance Theatre prove more than adept at bringing tales of daring on the high seas to a younger audienc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42PMFriday, December 15, 2023
Dance House, CardiffLea Anderson’s show for children, staged by National Dance Company Wales, presents the story of evolution as an absurdist cabaret
First, a word from the audience (of pr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMThursday, December 14, 2023
Sadler’s Wells, LondonTim Burton’s film is a natural fit for Bourne’s choreography and a bright young cast bring its bittersweet tale to fresh life
Matthew Bourne is a canny operator w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMFriday, December 8, 2023
The Romanina ballerina’s rise has been the result of years of gruelling physical work, not just talent. A decade after leaving the Royal Ballet due to creative differences, she’s back wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMFriday, December 1, 2023
Sadler’s Wells, LondonCloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan show extraordinary finesse but the theme of bodies and technology rarely coheres into anything substantial
A giant hand reaches dow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMThursday, November 23, 2023
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe 2017 piece Goat, made in the aftermath of London terror attacks, loses its way but last year’s Cerberus is a powerful account of grief
Rambert is a dance compan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMWednesday, November 15, 2023
The UK-based Vietnamese dancer and choreographer stages a piece inspired by the horror and dislocation of war with experimental vocals from Elaine Mitchener
Choreographer Dam Van Huynh was a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMTuesday, November 14, 2023
Emmanuel Gat explains why it’s easier to choreograph to Pierre Boulez than pop music and how his dancers perform ‘with a question mark not an exclamation mark’
‘All around me are fam…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMSunday, November 12, 2023
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonThe slinky grooves of Charles Mingus animate the expressive dancers of Clod Ensemble, who sweep up the crowd in a joyful celebration of movement
“It’s not abo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMMonday, November 6, 2023
The dance-theatre creator explains how she builds community through performance and how her new work, Lay Down Your Burdens, explores shame, trauma and anxiety
Rhiannon Faith has built her o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMSunday, November 5, 2023
Tuff Nutt Jazz Club, Southbank Centre, LondonA hunky Action Man opens up a sequin-clad life for the protagonist of Drew McOnie’s jazzy, out-and-proud take on Tchaikovsky’s ballet
The run…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PMFriday, November 3, 2023
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonWith incredible moves from Rio’s Cia Suave, Alice Ripoll choreographs a joyful celebration of young lives
The party has started on stage before we’ve even sat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMTuesday, October 31, 2023
Sadler’s Wells, LondonA loose, casual dance based on an artist’s interpretation of a Cézanne painting via a Pete Harden score is full of ideas that often feel out of sync
You could wat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMMonday, October 30, 2023
The Place, LondonThe set is a claustrophobic flat, the clothes are baggy, the prop is a gaming console … this three-part show lets us peer into its characters’ lives
There’s something…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:55AMMonday, October 23, 2023
Royal Opera House, LondonSam Steiner’s play, set in a world of rationed speech, lends itself to movement, and the dancers here also retain the dialogue, fusing the forms with quiet grace
A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:37PMFriday, October 20, 2023
Our regional dance series continues in Northern Ireland where, despite little funding, the capital has produced a European star in Oona Doherty – with more on the way
‘This is still a se…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AMThursday, October 19, 2023
Aviva Studios, ManchesterThe director’s collaboration with hip-hop dance company Boy Blue, designer Es Devlin and writer Sabrina Mahfouz conveys the march of AI
There are some shows that a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:55AMSunday, October 15, 2023
Sadler’s Wells, LondonLeading Indian kathak performer Mangaldas explores her desire and confronts the double standards around men’s and women’s sexuality
Is it audacious for a 63-year-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:43AMThursday, October 12, 2023
Barbican, LondonMeditation on the Bible’s great love poem can feel opaque but it is performed with great precision and set to a bewitching score
There’s something unsolvable about Pam Ta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMSunday, October 8, 2023
The Place/Somerset House, LondonHighlights of the opening weekend of the annual month-long dance festival included an arresting piece about gender expectations by Taiwan’s Su PinWen and an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:25PMMonday, October 2, 2023
Despite her work being described as the greatest dance theatre of the century, Tanowitz can still be found ‘backstage, throwing up’ before shows. Will her new production, based on a Hebr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:07AMSunday, October 1, 2023
Royal Opera House, LondonWith its stellar leads and lively background action, this sprightly revival of Carlos Acosta’s revised staging is a celebration of the pleasure of classical dance
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55AMThursday, September 28, 2023
Birmingham HippodromeThree choreographers use inspiringly orchestrated tracks from the city’s heavy metal legends to spring some surprises
What on earth does a Black Sabbath ballet look li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMWednesday, September 27, 2023
In showbiz since the age of six, and still high-kicking at 59, the screen and stage sensation looks back on her biggest moments – from Cats to Doctor Who to the ‘madness’ of The Masked…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:19AMFriday, September 22, 2023
Sadler’s Wells, LondonDancers in flight exist in a different realm in an absorbing Les Noces, reimagined as a sequel to The Rite of Spring, in this triple bill from a company really pushin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMTuesday, September 19, 2023
Created 100 years ago, Nijinska’s ballet Les Noces is a feminist masterpiece. Andrea Miller, who has choreographed a new version using Stravinsky’s music and art by Phyllida Barlow, hail…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:25PMTuesday, September 12, 2023
The first dancer of colour to join the Sadler’s Wells Theatre Ballet whose ballet school in Cape Town was closed in the 1970s as he refused to operate under apartheid rulesThe South Africa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33PMSunday, September 10, 2023
Stanley & Audrey Burton theatre, LeedsIntimate Pages, the newest piece by the US dance star turned choreographer, is the inventive highlight of an adventurous triple bill
New York City B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:49AMSunday, August 27, 2023
Our series on regional dance scenes continues with a visit to Hebden Bridge, where a range of left-field choreographers have put on work
Donna Summer’s I Feel Love kicks in and everybody�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:25PMFriday, August 25, 2023
When the Ukrainian invasion began, the ballet great left a show at the Bolshoi in protest. Here he reconsiders his past ties with Russia and the silence of the cultural elite in the country …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:07PMThursday, August 24, 2023
Festival theatre, EdinburghThe American company brought Ailey’s legendary Revelations, still hugely powerful after 65 years, alongside modern pieces of precision and fire
The thing about …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:55AM 
