Friday, July 10, 2020
With venues closed, choreographers including Mark Morris have been creating increasingly inventive work at home
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Choreographer Core…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMWednesday, July 8, 2020
Conservatoires adapted quickly to our new normal. What sort of industry will students graduate into – and how far have we come since UK-trained dancers were said to be ‘outclassed’?
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMMonday, July 6, 2020
Powerful political dance from Brooklyn’s FlexN and the spectacle of the Helicopter String Quartet are part of British artistic director’s programme
Paris’s Théâtre du Châtelet reope…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54PMTuesday, June 23, 2020
They flew to Senegal to create an electrifying version of the Pina Bausch classic with her son. Then coronavirus struck. Would they have time to dance the horrifying masterpiece for a film c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMSunday, June 14, 2020
When her tour was axed by coronavirus, the dancer set up an online festival with karaoke aerobics. She talks about her Bronx childhood, the pressure of Strictly and life beyond lockdown
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMFriday, June 12, 2020
With arts venues closed, ballerinas and b-boys are expressing themselves online. Here are some of the stunning results Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AMMonday, June 8, 2020
Available onlineBBC Young Dancer winners Connor Scott and Vidya Patel bring together two different styles in a compelling collaboration
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMThursday, June 4, 2020
Available onlineStopgap Dance Company’s disabled and non-disabled dancers create a mood of quiet suspension in an abandoned shopping centre
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54PMSunday, May 31, 2020
Available onlineAnna Tsygankova is utterly graceful as the exotic dancer in Ted Brandsen’s fine ballet for Dutch National Ballet
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMTuesday, May 26, 2020
Beauty, strength and bags of energy: BBC Four’s Men at the Barre documentary gets up close and personal with the Royal Ballet dancers on the rise
‘It’s a golden era of male ballet danc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMSunday, May 24, 2020
Sadler’s Wells Digital StagePart dance performance, part film, this solo show is a note-perfect portrayal of the all-consuming nature of loneliness
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMWednesday, May 20, 2020
The award-winning Within Her Eyes and two more experimental dance works reveal the storytelling strengths of this talented choreographer
Her feet never touch the ground. That’s the premise…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMTuesday, May 12, 2020
Available onlineThese short works, which include performances by a dream lineup of choreographers, are an array of innovation
Screendance – that is, dance created specifically for camera, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMSunday, May 10, 2020
Here/Not Here, a new film by Bim Ajadi, is aiming to bring the visual vernacular art form in to the mainstream
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Addressing the camera, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMWednesday, May 6, 2020
Available onlineDust and Light, Triangle of the Squinches and Scheherazade showcase the elegant nature of King’s work, which pushes beyond classical ballet
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMMonday, April 27, 2020
Available onlineTwo dance works by the Swedish choreographer are visually stunning, meshing movement, theatre, design and music
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMTuesday, April 21, 2020
From Robbie Fairchild’s electric escape to Francesca Hayward’s head-spinning pirouettes, here are five joyful homemade clips
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32AMThursday, April 16, 2020
Available onlinePaintings are given elastic life in this energetic showcase, which reimagines the collection’s extraordinary wartime evacuation to a Welsh slate mine
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMWednesday, April 15, 2020
Available onlineShechter’s work begins in Regency-esque civility and ends in an orgy of highly choreographed violence
The best arts and entertainment during self-isolation
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMMonday, April 13, 2020
Available onlineThere are striking moments in the films of this dance group’s performances, inspired by New York Trilogy and The Odyssey
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMThursday, April 9, 2020
Watch a short solo from Birmingham Royal Ballet performed by a dancer and two musicians in their own homes
• Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance to watch online
The danci…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMThursday, March 26, 2020
Michael Nunn and William Trevitt are characteristically unpredictable as they launch the Facebook Premieres series from Sadler’s Wells
With their 20th anniversary tour now on hold, BalletB…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36PMTuesday, March 24, 2020
Dancers are sharing their skills online as venues are shut due to the coronavirus. Our critic stepped up to test one out
The core of a ballet dancer’s life is daily class. Whether it’s a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48AMThursday, March 12, 2020
While Richard Alston’s company hang up their dance shoes, archivists and choreographers are grasping at ways to immortalise an inherently slippery art form
Earlier this month, Richard Alst…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMMonday, March 9, 2020
A superb documentary immerses you in the choreographer’s creations and shows off his own wild and weightless performances
Given the gift of time travel, you’d have to drop in on the earl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMSunday, March 8, 2020
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe company’s final outing after 25 years ran through some of Alston’s most dynamic newer works, with performances ranging from the spellbinding to the effortless…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMThursday, February 27, 2020
Sadler’s Wells, London Cheng Tsung-lung’s 13 Tongues circles and flows, while Lin Hwai-min’s Dust is a slow slide into the dark
Forty-seven years ago, a man who knew next to nothing ab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMSunday, February 23, 2020
Until her death in a freak accident, the ‘radical and shocking’ Isadora Duncan transformed dance. Now her feminist free spirit struts the stage again
‘You’ll have to excuse me, I’m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMFriday, February 21, 2020
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe English National Ballet’s luminous lead principal here creates her own show, ranging from Frederick Ashton to Arvo Pärt and two superb short films
It’s impos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMThursday, February 20, 2020
Peacock theatre, London A compelling cast pour their hearts into Kate Prince’s jukebox tale of civil war, trafficking and three siblings separated as refugees
A hip-hop dance show set to t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMTuesday, February 18, 2020
Royal Opera House, LondonCathy Marston’s first main stage commission for the Royal Ballet translates Du Pré’s lyrical presence on the podium into dance, capturing her deep love affair w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM 
