Tuesday, August 13, 2024
This year’s offerings veer from visually stunning to ponderous as performers grapple with big ideas as well as each other’s bodies
A festival as overstuffed with acts as Edinburgh brings…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:47AMSaturday, August 10, 2024
The Lyceum, EdinburghAakash Odedra circles and swoops to Rushil Ranjan’s powerful music in this buoyant and joyful show
If you see much contemporary dance, you’ll be familiar with the of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00PMThursday, August 8, 2024
Assembly @ Dance Base, Edinburgh The Australian choreographer revels in bodies sculpted by light but the impressive staging creates a chilly distance from these strong performers
The light s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:47AMWednesday, August 7, 2024
Assembly @ Dance Base, EdinburghSimone’s songs are repurposed in all their glory, essaying a relationship both combative and conciliatory in this show by Rendez-Vous Dance
Is it cheating t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMTuesday, August 6, 2024
Edinburgh PlayhouseThis double bill has sun and shade, and if at times the momentum gets stuck there’s still a mighty spring in its step
There are slimmer pickings than usual for dance in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:31AMMonday, July 22, 2024
The dance festival’s opening weekend, under the theme We Humans, focused as much on gravity and technology as emotional connection
Venice, a city of already preposterous beauty, comes furt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24PMSunday, July 21, 2024
Bold Tendencies, LondonLike a live music video crossed with avant-garde dance theatre – and utterly steeped in young queer British culture
A show that claimed to cross Kenneth MacMillan’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02PMWednesday, July 3, 2024
Sadler’s Wells, LondonBursting with upfront energy, Acosta Danza’s contemporary mashup is lively but light on emotive moments
The problem is, Don José, she’s just not that into you. S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMTuesday, July 2, 2024
The cast of Canadian B-boy Crazy Smooth’s new show on their breathtaking moves, their multiple surgeries and why hip-hop needs ‘living libraries’ of experience
“When everybody strips…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMMonday, July 1, 2024
Punchdrunk Enrichment Stores, LondonTouching on migration stories, memory, grief and community, the story of a grandfather’s life told through a series of cryptic riddles is a charming exp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMWednesday, June 26, 2024
A searching circus piece about refugees in limbo, acrobats confronting middle age and supreme silliness from a Tokyo troupe are among the international offerings
Vibrancy, musicality and ath…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03AMSunday, June 23, 2024
The Old Bailey, LondonItalian artist Bersani is 98cm tall and has the brittle bone condition osteogenesis imperfecta – every one of her movements is considered, deliberate and carefully sl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMThursday, June 13, 2024
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonThemes such as exoticised bodies and reversing the male gaze struggle are raised but not fully explored in Nadia Beugré’s show
The promo material for L’Homme…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMSunday, June 9, 2024
Sadler’s Wells, LondonIn goth-glam gowns with a fringed shawl, the Spanish dancer snaps from traditional to progressive in a passionate performance
Eva Yerbabuena, one of flamenco’s best…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMFriday, June 7, 2024
The famed company dissolved in 1996, so how best to bring it back? With new and classic works from the choreographer’s Rolodex of international talent – and by changing the culture of th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AMRoyal Opera House, LondonLaunching a four-year celebration of Frederick Ashton’s genteel ‘English style’, this triple bill is full of refined beauty and pleasure – though with athlet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMMonday, May 27, 2024
She has danced pregnant, in bondage gear, and drenched in what looks like menstrual blood – all to unleash the monsters lurking within her and all of us. We meet the unstoppable performer …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMTuesday, May 21, 2024
When she first went moshing, Rachel Ní Bhraonáin couldn’t stop giggling. Now she has made a dance show about the ‘gorgeous community’ she encountered
Walking into a basement club in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMSunday, May 19, 2024
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, LondonThe Revel Puck Circus big top rolls into town, featuring fantastic acrobatics, whimsical clowning and admirable ethics
There’s a festival feel at a Rev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMFriday, May 17, 2024
Big-name ballet dancers and rising choreographers have found a new home in the superclub where the after-party goes on until 5am
“It’s the easiest rider we’ve ever done,” says the Mi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMWednesday, May 15, 2024
Corn Exchange/Dance House, BrightonStopgap and Lîla Dance deliver poetic and political work at this year’s festival, displaying bold innovation and evocative visions
‘It’s impossible …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMTuesday, May 14, 2024
Director who brought contemporary dance to mainstream British TV audiences with films such as Outside In and Veterans
A“magician of the camera” with an extraordinary visual sense, Margar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMThursday, May 9, 2024
The Place, LondonThree performers have knockabout fun in choreographer Simone Mousset’s well-crafted, supremely silly show
It’s funny, this show. Maybe not from the off, when you’re ju…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AMWednesday, May 8, 2024
Aviva Studios, ManchesterDance companies from Shanghai and Mumbai traverse a vast stage against a fast-moving backdrop in a personal story about identity and purpose
The vast populations of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMThursday, May 2, 2024
As the 1975 musical about Broadway hoofers sets off on tour, professionals reveal how much has – and hasn’t – changed since its debut
‘I want it strong! Make it sharp! Take it on the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AMMonday, April 29, 2024
Choreographers from the US, Brazil, Greece and Portugal in the running for the £40,000 inaugural Rose international dance prize
Four choreographers are in the running for the inaugural £40…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMThursday, April 25, 2024
Marylebone theatre, LondonFairytale meets hip-hop in Kevan Allen’s energetic reworking of the classic ballet about a toymaker and his all-too-realistic doll
Kevan Allen usually choreograp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMMonday, April 22, 2024
He’s the world’s hottest choreographer, the man who cooks up steamy videos and stage shows for giants of music. But does the Atlanta star ever think he goes too far? Quite the opposite �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMFriday, April 19, 2024
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonHofesh Shechter’s young company are an international bunch but their slo-mo curves and sudden shocks deliver some startling home truths about the UK
There’s a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AMFriday, April 12, 2024
The Coronet theatre, LondonTension between the organic, human-made and the digital permeates Chieh-hua Hsieh’s show as performer Ting-Ting Chao becomes an incredible vibrating energy force…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMSunday, April 7, 2024
Lilian Baylis studio, Sadler’s Wells, LondonFull of dancey japes, games and satisfyingly tactile characters, BalletLorent have created an enjoyably gentle adaptation of Margery Williams’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM 
