Tuesday, 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 08:12AMFriday, February 14, 2020
Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, London The proximity to the action in this show highlights the finesse and strength of the Havana troupe
Only a few months since Acosta Danza were last in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMThursday, February 13, 2020
Sadler’s Wells, LondonSet to Bartók’s opera, the bloody myth becomes a bleak battle of the sexes where we can never quite tell right from wrong
Pina Bausch was of the “hell is other p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03PMFriday, February 7, 2020
New artistic director aims to attract younger audiences and promises more than 20,000 tickets for £20 or less as company reveals 2020 programme
Carlos Acosta has pledged to transform Birmin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMThursday, February 6, 2020
Sadler’s Wells, LondonMichael Keegan-Dolan’s new dance work is steeped in the landscape and culture of the Dingle Peninsula
It starts out like a sinister cult: the mask of a black ram, a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMWednesday, February 5, 2020
Phoenix Dance Theatre’s show looks back to the Zong slave ship massacre and the Kālā Pānī prison torture. Three choreographers explain how they created it together
How many people does…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMSaturday, February 1, 2020
From The Lighthouse to The Haystack, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMSaturday, January 25, 2020
From The Personal History of David Copperfield to Madonna, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36PMFriday, January 24, 2020
Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, LondonThis experiment by film-maker Kibwe Tavares and choreographer Sharon Eyal brims with talent but is frustrating
Two young women in heavy robes and el…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMWednesday, January 22, 2020
Jacksons Lane, LondonIn this acrobatic theatre show, the Berlin circus trio Still Hungry juggle roles and wrestle with all the anxieties and expectations that come with child-rearing
A disc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMMonday, January 20, 2020
From the soulful Jemima Brown to BBC Young Dancer champ Nafisah Baba, these dynamos have a stellar year ahead
This Northern Irish dancer starts the year nominated for two Critics Circle danc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMRoyal Opera House, LondonThe Russian ballerina is exhilarating to watch in John Cranko’s 1965 take on Pushkin’s novel, partnered by Reece Clarke in the title role
There are few dancers w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03AMFriday, January 17, 2020
From Waves to Beat Horizon, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMThursday, January 16, 2020
Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe Canadian company’s colourful Mexican-flavoured show is full of heart-stopping skill, dreamy lyricism and visual whimsy
Many contemporary circus groups sell the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMWednesday, January 15, 2020
The Pit, LondonFleur Elise Noble’s fantasy show at the London international mime festival is highly original and unsettling
The London international mime festival (43 years old and stronge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMFriday, January 10, 2020
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonAerial theatre company Ockham’s Razor deftly and poignantly explore age and innocence
There is a wonderful warmth in the work of aerial theatre company Ockham�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMThursday, January 9, 2020
Historical ballets are rife with offensive colonial politics but choreographers and dancers are finding creative ways to change them for today’s audiences
A 19th-century worldview informs …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMColiseum, LondonWhile its story of slavery and exotica is dubious, ENB’s virtuoso dancers sparkle as much as the fake jewels
Perhaps because ballet as an art form is so unreal, it’s eas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMMonday, January 6, 2020
Film reviewers sank their claws into Cats, but is it really so awful? Our stage reviewers steeled themselves for the caterwauling ... but ended up quite enjoying it
It can be very pleasurab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMThursday, January 2, 2020
Tom Stoppard gets personal, Cush Jumbo does Hamlet, Hollywood names bring everything from tragedy to comedy … plus dance confronts shame and there’s standup open heart surgery Continue r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMFriday, December 27, 2019
As karaoke versions of musicals take off, we chat to punters at two West End shows – strictly during the interval, of course – to gauge opinion on audience participation
‘It’ll have …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMFrom Jojo Rabbit to Craig David, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMSunday, December 22, 2019
Royal Festival Hall, London
In a culture of special effects, it is the moments of connection, creativity and wonder that matter
Circus 1903 – in pictures
Playing its second year as an alte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMSunday, December 15, 2019
A snogtastic Romeo and Juliet from Matthew Bourne and an international dance-a-thon celebrating Merce Cunningham join a mixed troupe of winners
More on the best culture of 2019 Continue read…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PMSunday, December 8, 2019
London ColiseumEdward Clug strips back Shakespeare, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui riffs on Nijinsky and Wayne McGregor teams up with Manfred Thierry Mugler in this rich Russian triple bill
What do y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMWednesday, December 4, 2019
Coliseum, LondonA stylish riff on Coco Chanel’s place in ballet history and a regal mocking of Handel make a double bill where style outshines insight
The indomitable Boshoi ballerina Svet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMFriday, November 29, 2019
Royal Opera House, LondonFrancesca Hayward sparkles in this twee revival, a luminous presence in an inconsequential story about a lifesize doll
There are ballets of magical otherworldliness,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMThursday, November 28, 2019
The Place, LondonOn their final tour, Richard Alston Dance Company take it back to where it all began with a moving survey of their 25-year history
It is a season of farewells for the Richar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMTuesday, November 26, 2019
Shot on location with lashings of fighting and flirting, Romeo and Juliet: Beyond Words is a vibrant, up-close take on one of the Royal Ballet’s best-loved gems
It’s been an ongoing quan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33PMFriday, November 22, 2019
From Frozen II to Anselm Kiefer, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days
(Jennifer Lee, Chris Buck, 2019, US) 103 mins Continue…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMWednesday, November 20, 2019
From the Chinese scene in Nutcracker to the Moor in Petrushka, are some ballets now offensively outdated? We ask big names in dance if they should be preserved, changed – or binned
It’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM 
