Friday, November 2, 2018
Royal Opera House, LondonThe loose plotting of the love story is offset by performers who elevate the melodrama to mesmerising levelsLet’s take a moment to appreciate the genius of Mariane…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMThursday, November 1, 2018
The Place, LondonBoundaries between fake and real are blurred and broken in a smart, funny show that fuses science and artFake operations that cure knee pain, empty pills that work as well a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06PMWednesday, October 31, 2018
Sadler’s Wells, LondonFire ripples through dancers’ bodies in Juanjo Argues’ vital new work, while David Bintley rekindles his Sun King spectacleThis double bill from Birmingham Royal …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMFriday, October 26, 2018
Lilian Baylis Studio, London Dancers Eleanor Sikorski and Charlotte Maclean weave patterns of wit, absurdity and giddy joy in a strange and quietly radical showTwice a finalist in the Place …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMTuesday, October 23, 2018
Sadler’s Wells, LondonJasmin Vardimon’s twist on the ancient Greek myth features near-contortionist dancers and violent choreography let down by a cloudy central conceptA billowing plast…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMFriday, October 19, 2018
Dimitris Papaioannou’s show at Dance Umbrella is a painterly piece that leaves little to the imagination, while Le Patin Libre deliver a haunting show on iceLondon’s Dance Umbrella festi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMMonday, October 15, 2018
After fresh and funny takes on Shakespeare and Paradise Lost, Ben Duke brings together five people who have had a stroke to tell their stories – and help them reconnect with their bodiesIt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04AMFriday, October 12, 2018
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe theatre celebrates its 20th anniversary with three ambitious, striking, heart-lifting new commissions from Botis Seva, Julie Cunningham and Alesandra Seutin To ce…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:04PMTuesday, October 9, 2018
Out with abstraction and virtuosity for its own sake: these idealistic young choreographers are making empowering work that tackles big issues“I always say I just want to save the world,�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04AMMonday, October 8, 2018
A quick-stepping dance from the townships has gone mainstream thanks to its crazy energy, competitive edge and campaigning forceIn the beginning, it was all about the shoes. In the early 195…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMFriday, October 5, 2018
Purcell Room, LondonThe Beijing-based choreographer offers a fascinating reappraisal of a propagandist balletIn the first years of China’s Cultural Revolution, there were only eight “mod…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMFrom A Star Is Born to Reckonings, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMWednesday, October 3, 2018
Royal Albert Hall, LondonA mixed bill involving Acosta’s Havana-based company was not so much a summing up of his 30-year career as a step forwardCarlos Acosta is celebrating 30 years as a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMFriday, September 28, 2018
Old Vic, LondonPepys’s celebrated diaries come under feminist scrutiny in Big Dance Theater’s postmodern mashupWhat’s the British slang for penis? The woman in the wig wants to know. S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMFriday, September 14, 2018
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe ballet superstar plots a course from classic to modern with six pieces that evoke eeriness, desolation and giddy joyMuch is made these days of ballet dancers bein…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMThursday, September 6, 2018
Sadler’s Wells, London Rigal’s performers explore street vernaculars and the shamanic power of music in this flawed if clever pieceSix fresh young dancers look as if they’ve bought the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMThursday, August 30, 2018
It sets history to hip-hop and has a diverse cast – but Sylvia is not riding on the coattails of Hamilton, says its director Kate Prince. Instead its heroine marches to a beat all her own …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMWednesday, October 11, 2017
The Dane likes his audience to leave their phones on and has a troupe that's the choreographic equivalent of Occupy. He explains why he's aiming for 'something neo-liberalism can't cope with…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33PMTuesday, September 5, 2017
Dancers are cast as string instruments in a show set to the composer’s ‘frighteningly powerful’ late work. Lucinda Childs, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Maguy Marin discuss turning hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMFriday, August 4, 2017
No Miracles Here, a new show at the Edinburgh festival, revisits the Depression-era craze that had couples dancing for weeks in pursuit of big prize money. Today, that spirit lives on in rea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMWednesday, June 21, 2017
They squeeze into alcoves, pile up by litter trays and pose for family photos with chairs on their heads. Meet the dance troupe making no living room safeI walk through the front door to fin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36AMWednesday, May 17, 2017
From Coppélia and Pygmalion to Mannequin and Buffybot, artists love playing games with lifesize dolls. It's a trail of lust, obsession and beheadingsCoppélia is one of the sillier corners …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42PMMonday, April 24, 2017
How do you tell the story of the ‘gaysian’ drag scene? With killer heels, pineapple hats and lots of duct tape. We go backstage at Miss Meena and the Masala QueensAn actor waits for his …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMThursday, February 23, 2017
She has blazed a trail from Granada to New York to Paris, rapping, partying and dancing in a latex flamenco dress. Is Britain ready for Blanca Li and her ramshackle dancing robots?I didn’t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AMThursday, February 2, 2017
Their art form already feels distant to some audiences. Do choreographers just make things worse by coming up with obscure names for their shows?I was once having a conversation with Matthew…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMFriday, January 27, 2017
This week La La Land, whose stars sing and dance, got 14 Oscar nominations. What did former Strictly judge Arlene Phillips think?I had read all the reviews before going to see La La Land and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:04PMThursday, January 12, 2017
Does the mind rule the body? The dancer doesn’t think so – and she’s recruited scientists for her experimental new showWe’re standing in a beautiful, airy dance studio, beneath a cei…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AMWednesday, January 4, 2017
This feature-length animation set in the prestigious Paris Opera school boasts choreography based on real performances and takes the art form seriouslyAsk any ballet dancer about the film Bl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMSaturday, December 31, 2016
As the Gene Kelly classic An American in Paris makes it to the stage, we celebrate some other big-screen stories with unexpectedly light feet• How Christopher Wheeldon adapted An American …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PMWednesday, December 14, 2016
Savoy theatre, London Glee’s Amber Riley gives a gutsy performance in the UK premiere of the Broadway musical that bursts with snappy numbers and tight dance routinesFrom the first swish o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PMWednesday, October 12, 2016
Reading the memoir Just Kids led choreographer Fleur Darkin to create a dance tribute to the photographer’s flower portraits and the punk poet‘The colour is so alive and so free, it almo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:22AM 
