Sunday, September 25, 2022
The founder of ZooNation on how the company – about to celebrate its 20th anniversary – helped to bring hip-hop dance into the mainstream
The choreographer, director and writer Kate Prin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:07AMSunday, September 18, 2022
Coliseum, LondonIn borrowed costumes, this company exiled by war inhabit Alexei Ratmansky’s take on the 19th-century classic
High emotion inevitably surrounded this production of Giselle …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMSunday, September 11, 2022
Sadler’s Wells; Theatre Royal Drury Lane, LondonAnne Teresa de Keersmaeker creates a revelatory response to Bach, while a gala celebrating the dance legend is full of bravura dancing
A wee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33AMSunday, August 21, 2022
Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal BathBrandstrup’s superbly danced reimagining of the Minotaur myth is paired with mezzo Christine Rice’s impassioned Phaedra in Britten’s cantata
As a youn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMSunday, August 14, 2022
King’s Theatre; Pleasance at EICC, EdinburghThe actor makes his dance debut in a visually stunning yet curiously empty life of the poet. But every move counts in the Freedom Ballet of Ukra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMSunday, July 31, 2022
Teatro alle Tese, VeniceSilver Lion winner Rocío Molina unleashes raw energy, while Golden Lion winner Saburo Teshigawara turns his gaze inward, at Wayne McGregor’s Venice Dance Biennale
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMSaturday, July 30, 2022
Alan Cumming has worked with Stanley Kubrick and the Spice Girls – now he’s starring in a dance show about Scotland’s most famous poet. He talks to Sarah Crompton about male desire, wh…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:07AMSunday, July 10, 2022
Arts Depot, London; and touringThe young dancers nurtured by Hofesh Shechter rise to the challenge of his teasing 2019 work with irresistible confidence
In the history of British dance, the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:37AMSunday, July 3, 2022
La Scala, MilanIn its world premiere performance, McGregor makes Les Noces his own, while the extraordinary Alessandra Ferri stars in his 2018 take on The Rite of Spring
Igor Stravinsky argu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMSunday, June 26, 2022
Internationaal Theater AmsterdamThe American dance-maker brings the audience to tears with a highly textured ritual of remembrance for a dying person
You always remember the moment when a ch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMSunday, June 19, 2022
Royal Albert Hall; Royal Opera House, LondonMatthew Bourne and Christopher Wheeldon bring Broadway dazzle and cinematic power to their adaptations of Bizet’s Carmen and Laura Esquivel’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMSunday, June 12, 2022
Sadler’s Wells, LondonA Covid-dogged company of African dancers triumph in an unbearable yet riveting revival of Pina Bausch’s take on Stravinsky
In Lynn Garafola’s outstanding new bio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:07AMSunday, June 5, 2022
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonThe Royal Ballet star electrifies in Didy Veldman’s tricksy new reworking of a ubiquitous classic
Natalia Osipova is such a particular talent. The force of her …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMSunday, May 29, 2022
Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, BrightonCharlotte Spencer’s examination of memory and the body is strongest when it focuses on specifics
For the past 10 years, the choreographer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMSunday, May 22, 2022
The ‘Shameless’ star talks to Sarah Crompton about the cost of living crisis, motherhood, Botox and her new play, ‘The House of Shades’
SOURCE: The Independent at 12:12PMSadler’s Wells, LondonThe mysterious, melancholy Cerberus is the centrepiece of a triple bill worthy of the company’s superb dancers
Sadler’s Wells was sparsely populated for the Londo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMThe ‘Shameless’ star talks to Sarah Crompton about the cost of living crisis, motherhood, Botox and her new play, ‘The House of Shades’
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:24AMSunday, May 15, 2022
Sadlers’s Wells, LondonFear and intimidation play out in the Matsena brothers’ raw, impassioned new work, while Julia Cheng’s female warriors strike a pose
Julia Cheng’s choreography…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMSunday, May 8, 2022
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonDan Daw explores bodies, power and submission in a show that is intense, tender and comes complete with trigger warning…
I was feeling quite calm about seeing …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMThursday, May 5, 2022
The New York theatre director and actors Arthur Darvill, Anoushka Lucas and Patrick Vaill talk to Sarah Crompton about turning the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic into the most challenging v…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:18AMSunday, May 1, 2022
Royal Opera House, LondonIn a showcase of works from across their founding choreographer’s career, the Royal Ballet prove their mastery of his technical and dramatic complexity
Mikhail Bar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMSunday, April 24, 2022
Richmond theatre, London; and touringXie Xin and Maxine Doyle call the shots in a double bill of great flow and swagger
One quality that has sustained BalletBoyz, the company founded by the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMSunday, April 17, 2022
Sadler’s Wells, LondonAnne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s tribute to five inspirational Rosas captivates – until it outstays its welcome
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is not a choreographer who …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMSunday, April 10, 2022
Sadler’s Wells; 180 Studios, LondonWilliam Forsythe delivers a dazzling fusion of classical ballet and pop, Ivan Michael Blackstock a bold examination of black masculinity
Dance takes man…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:37AMSunday, April 3, 2022
The new play by the Pulitzer-winning writer of Fairview links the story of the pioneering Jamaican nurse in Crimea to female carers across history
Seeing Fairview at the Young Vic in London …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMBarbican; Royal Opera House, LondonThe dancers shone in a double bill to mark 20 years of Casso Pancho’s company, while at Covent Garden Kyle Abraham’s new work was suffused with longing…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMSunday, March 27, 2022
Sadler’s Wells, LondonDance Reflections festival continued, with offerings from foggy to soporific – but darling of radical dance Boris Charmatz did not disappoint
You need a lot of pati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMSunday, March 20, 2022
Tate Modern; Sadler’s Wells, LondonDance Reflections festival showcases a fresh take on Trisha Brown’s seminal work; while two of its contemporary offerings are frustratingly oblique
It …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMSunday, March 13, 2022
The American choreographer on setting classical dance steps to James Blake, his friendship with Nureyev, and why he hugs trees
One of the world’s greatest dance-makers, William Forsythe, 7…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMSadler’s Wells, LondonA Lucinda Childs postmodern gem sparkles anew, while two extraordinary dancers explore what unites people and tears them apart
When George Balanchine created his thre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMSaturday, March 12, 2022
The star of ‘The Affair’, ‘Luther’ and ‘His Dark Materials’ talks to Sarah Crompton about personal boundaries, the gender pay gap and why older women are more valued in Europe th…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:42AM 
