Sunday, March 30, 2025
Sadler’s Wells; Paul Hamlyn Hall, Royal Opera House, LondonAthletes and dancers meet each other halfway in Rachid Ouramdane’s latest. And Pam Tanowitz taps into Covent Garden’s past wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AMSunday, March 23, 2025
Sadler’s Wells; Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, LondonLyon Opera Ballet perform alongside digital forms to the music of Gavin Bryars in a Merce Cunningham double bill. Plus, a new twis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMSunday, March 16, 2025
Sadler’s Wells; Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, LondonThe late choreographer’s company perform her vibrant 1985 work with a modern-day homage. Plus, a triple bill with a twist from N…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMSunday, March 9, 2025
Royal Opera House; Sadler’s Wells, LondonMatthew Ball and Yasmine Naghdi enchant as the Royal Ballet celebrates 60 years of Kenneth MacMillan’s classic. And into the void with Wayne McGr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMSunday, March 2, 2025
Royal Opera House, LondonThe Royal Ballet’s dazzling interpretation of Crystal Pite’s triptych sends our emotions soaring and swooping
An accidental Crystal Pite festival sprang up last …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMSaturday, February 22, 2025
Aviva Studios, ManchesterThe choreographer and director’s urgent trilogy, a co-production between Nederlands Dance Theater and Complicité, reaches its hugely moving conclusion
One of Crys…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMSunday, February 16, 2025
Sadler’s Wells East; Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe elegant new Sadler’s Wells East opened with an inclusive love letter to clubland, while its sister theatre hosted a more abstract spectac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMSunday, February 2, 2025
The Royal Ballet principal on her late career debut, taking her daughters to work, and playing goodies and baddies
Born in Devon in 1984, Lauren Cuthbertson joined the Royal Ballet School ag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSadler’s Wells; Linbury theatre, LondonContenders for two new dance prizes include Kyle Abraham’s buoyant celebration of Black life and an intriguing twist on Georgian folk dance. Elsewh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSunday, January 26, 2025
Royal Opera House, LondonJohn Cranko’s 1965 take on Pushkin’s romance demands real artistry, and an outstanding cast delivers it
A yellow moon peers out of a misty dawn sky. Two proud me…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMSunday, January 19, 2025
Coliseum; the Place, LondonIn her final lead principal role for English National Ballet, Erina Takahashi breaks hearts as a despairing Giselle. Elsewhere, dreams and misdemeanours in the dep…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMMonday, December 23, 2024
A life-changing crash revisited, a rapturous duet for Matthew Ball and Alina Cojocaru and an everyday story of medieval fantasy
Read the Observer critics’ review of 2024 in full
1. Assembl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMSunday, December 22, 2024
Coliseum; Linbury theatre; Royal Opera House, LondonENB’s new Nutcracker recaptures the joy, while Royal Ballet finesse shines through the bling in a Frederick Ashton classic. Plus, a sear…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMSaturday, November 30, 2024
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe Irish choreographer and his company, Teaċ Daṁsa, weave dances of folksy complexity in their stirring, absurdist new production
In eight weeks at their home bas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMSunday, November 24, 2024
Royal Opera House; Sadler’s Wells, LondonMargaret Atwood’s dystopian vision provides rich inspiration for Wayne McGregor, while Akram Khan goes back to his Indian classical roots to tran…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMSunday, November 17, 2024
Sadler’s Wells; Peacock theatre; Linbury theatre, LondonThe Belgian choreographer’s tempestuous new piece mirrors the recent controversy surrounding her. Plus, the latest from two pionee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:31AMSunday, November 10, 2024
Norwich Theatre RoyalWith its tropical backdrop and Latin-infused reworking of Tchaikovsky’s score, Acosta Danza’s touring show, if not always coherent, flies by
As a dancer, Carlos Acos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMSunday, November 3, 2024
Royal Opera House, LondonRoyal Ballet principal Joseph Sissens emphatically turns the spotlight on leading dancers of colour from around the world
Joseph Sissens is one of the Royal Ballet�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMSunday, October 27, 2024
Royal Opera House; Sadler’s Wells, LondonPam Tanowitz’s witty subversion of classical dance is the highlight of a richly varied Royal Ballet mixed bill, while BRB’s moon-based fare fee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMSunday, October 20, 2024
Sadler’s Wells; Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonShechter’s ever-changing new work probes the resilience of the human spirit, while the Portuguese dancer powerfully binds movement and disabil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AMSaturday, October 12, 2024
Barbican, London; onlineThis year’s festival opens with a formally rigorous work from the South African choreographer and a film premiere from Lea Anderson
London’s annual international …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMSunday, October 6, 2024
Royal Ballet and Opera, London; Sadler’s Wells, LondonChristopher Wheeldon’s international hit returns home as thrilling as ever. Plus: three contrasting works by the National Ballet of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMSunday, September 29, 2024
Birmingham HippodromeThis production of Frederick Ashton’s version of the bucolic love story allows the beauty and humour to flow naturally from the choreography
As the rain comes down and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMSunday, September 22, 2024
Queen Elizabeth Hall; Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, LondonQudus Onikeku’s dancers jerk, bustle and glide through a puzzling tale of rebirth, while Kate Prince’s ZooNation returns t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMSunday, September 15, 2024
The actor on the extraordinary second life of her stage career, learning lines in your 80s, and the secret of her long marriage
Born in Edinburgh in 1935, June Watson’s career on stage, te…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMSadler’s Wells, LondonThe resurrected company revives rarities by Kenneth MacMillan and Ashley Page alongside enticing new work – all performed with brio and belief
Christopher Marney’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMSunday, September 8, 2024
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonAn ensemble of disabled and non-disabled, deaf and neurodivergent dancers create and perform a joyful show combining movement, words and sheer invention
For nearl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMSunday, September 1, 2024
London Coliseum; Dance Base, EdinburghThe Tbilisi-based company’s first ever visit to London delivers a precise if traditional take on a classic. Plus, a knockout new duet from Mufutau Yus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSaturday, August 24, 2024
Zoo Southside; Dance Base, EdinburghA subtle Danish revamp of Romeo and Juliet goes head to head with German B-boys, an Australian spin on Russell Maliphant and a Scottish double bill of dyn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMSunday, August 4, 2024
Tese dei Soppalchi; Piccolo Arsenale, VeniceHip-hop meets Samuel Beckett in one of two new commissions by Italian choreographers, while the other struggles under the weight of its ambition
O…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00AMSunday, July 28, 2024
Teatro alle Tese; Teatro Piccolo Arsenale, VeniceRadical choreographers Alan Lucien Øyen and Rafael Palacios present two very different but beautifully poised explorations of what it is to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AM 
