Friday, May 10, 2019
From High Life to Joy for Ever, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMThe woman who got Christine and the Queens and Dua Lipa moving talks about her switch to Rambert and partying on tour with Madonna
‘I’m a lazy girl,” says Marion Motin, laughing at her…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMThursday, May 9, 2019
Royal Opera House, LondonCrystal Pite reinvents the corps de ballet, alongside Christopher Wheeldon’s classy meditation and a flawed world premiere by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
The world premie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AMMonday, May 6, 2019
They started out as sprinters on the racetrack – but ended up as dancers on the stage. Meet the explosive Alleyne sisters
In the summer of 2012, Kristina and Sadé Alleyne’s Olympic drea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMFriday, May 3, 2019
From Vox Lux to Stanley Kubrick, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMSunday, April 28, 2019
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe tradition-trashing dancer serves up a brilliant, table-stomping blend of experiment, absurdity and subversion
We arrive at Israel Galván’s fiesta when it feels…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AMFriday, April 26, 2019
Southwark Playhouse, LondonA crack cast fire up this romp through Fats Waller’s music, directed by Tyrone Huntley with moves by the Strictly dancer
The black box of Southwark Playhouse is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AMFrom Avengers: Endgame to Mary Quant, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMThursday, April 25, 2019
Sadler’s Wells, LondonAnne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s choreography for the composer’s music, played by cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, is austere and enigmatic
If you were going to choose a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:40AMTuesday, April 23, 2019
The idea still makes people uneasy but two new plays – Fighter and The Sweet Science of Bruising – explore the courage, pain and history of women boxers
‘I always try to say this witho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMFriday, April 19, 2019
From Loro to Stealing Sheep, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMWednesday, April 17, 2019
Barbican, LondonSix decades of solos form an unsentimental and surprising celebration of the legendary choreographer’s highly technical dance experiments
On what would have been Merce Cunn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:29AMFriday, April 12, 2019
From Mid90s to Dave, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMThursday, April 11, 2019
As her acclaimed take on Four Quartets heads to London, choreographer Pam Tanowitz explains why she’s still trying to crack the poem
Her choreography has been hailed by the New York Times …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMWednesday, April 10, 2019
The Sharks-v-Jets classic is told with Jerome Robbins’ ‘perfect’ moves, admits Aletta Collins. How did she create new ones?
Aletta Collins is telling me about what arrived in the post …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMFriday, April 5, 2019
Sadler’s Wells, LondonIbsen gets an urgent retelling, Kahlo dances with a monkey and Bausch’s masterwork is back in Tamara Rojo’s stellar triple bill
In 2016, English National Ballet d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:23AMMonday, April 1, 2019
Ballet shoes have always been a pale peachy pink because it was assumed dancers were, too. Now a British footwear company is striking a blow for ballerinas of colour everywhere
When Ballet B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMWednesday, March 27, 2019
Royal Opera House, LondonLauren Cuthbertson and Matthew Ball sumptuously express the recklessness of youth in Kenneth MacMillan’s fine ballet
We think of Romeo and Juliet as a story about …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:26AMFriday, March 22, 2019
Print Room at the Coronet, London Saburo Teshigawara’s take on the Russian classic isolates its hero, creating striking scenes that leave you pining for a connection
Japanese choreographe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AMMonday, March 18, 2019
Ballet and film complement each other perfectly in a biopic of the superstar dancer that captures life under Castro’s rule
Dance on film can have many functions. It might act as a showstop…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:29AMBarbican, LondonThe company’s triple bill includes Ingoma, a powerful piece inspired by events that led to South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement
Ballet Black may be, by its nature, poli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMTuesday, March 12, 2019
She conquered Strictly while still living in a bedsit. Now the dancing multi-linguist and trained engineer is making the leap into musicals – where she’s planning to ‘go crazy’
Glamo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMFriday, March 8, 2019
From Captain Marvel to Henry Moore, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMThursday, March 7, 2019
Sadler’s Wells, LondonWith one piece choreographed by the company and the other by Christopher Wheeldon, this is a fresh, thoughtful show
Over the last 19 years, BalletBoyz has metamorphos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:58AMTuesday, March 5, 2019
After her celebrated Jane Eyre, Cathy Marston is staging a revelatory regal ballet. She talks about binge-watching ITV’s Victoria and the politics of storytelling
Queen Victoria is fallin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:29AMSunday, March 3, 2019
Sadler’s Wells, LondonClassical virtuosity combines with contemporary sensibility in this selection of highlights from a 25-year repertoire
‘How small a thought it takes to fill a whole …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:41AMFriday, March 1, 2019
Barbican, LondonInspired by a sci-fi novella, the artist teams up with Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener for a bracing dance experiment
A woman’s face looms, very large and unnervingly clo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:43AMWednesday, February 27, 2019
The newly knighted choreographer is shutting his company due to cuts and has snapped his achilles tendon. But he’s full of optimism about the future
I’m expecting Richard Alston to be an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMSunday, February 24, 2019
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe loss of the company’s founder Pina Bausch a decade ago is at the heart of this meticulous meditation on grief and death
Bon Voyage, Bob … is only the second n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMThursday, February 21, 2019
With a dance version of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, a collaboration with Greek composer Vangelis and his touring show Silent Lines, the questing choreographer is busier than ever
I’m lo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMFriday, February 15, 2019
From Notting Hill to Fatboy Slim, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04PM 
