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Lust, morphine and mental instability: Kenneth MacMillan's infamously dark ballet is back, and so are the plummy Covent Garden crowds.
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Cock and Bull is a belting satire in which three female performers, Nic Green, Rosana Cade and Laura Bradshaw, deconstruct the familiar
Louise Orwin's Oh Yes Oh No is a challenging, thought-provoking one-woman show about the vagaries and violence of female desire. It struggles
Hong Kong Dance Company celebrates the region's 20th year of freedom from British control with The Legend of Mulan, a folktale about
"A profoundly imaginative, sad and humorous exploration of agony and loss, of meaning and its absence". Review by Anna Winter.
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English National Ballet's My First Ballet production of Cinderella is a production with noble intentions, danced with conviction by a talented cast
Cut-glass assertions of privilege: Anna Winter is entranced by the Royal Ballet's 50th anniversary revival of George Balanchine's classic triptych.
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Like Brideshead without the grief: Anna Winter reviews a revival of Matthew Bourne's younger creations.
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The drum has a perennial, primal power over humankind: it stirs the instincts for ritual, fighting, dancing, and probably mating. Even the
While some of the pieces in Ballet Black's latest triple bill are underwhelming, others are inspired. The neoclassical reveries in Michael Corder's
In 2012, the astonishingly talented Sergei Polunin was 22 and the youngest ever principal dancer at the Royal Ballet when he suddenly
The Coronet, a gloomy and atmospheric former cinema, seems an appropriate venue in which to celebrate Russell Maliphant, a choreographer for whom
In 2013, Canadian dancer Lukas McFarlane won Sky TV's talent show Got to Dance. Then aged 20, he wowed the judges with
Danza Contemporanea de Cuba comprises performers with stupendous technique. The company also displays a fine-tuned sense of drama and exuberance in their
What better way to assuage the dreary and drizzling onslaught of Storm Doris (and life in general) than with Mother Africa. Watching
Getting Dressed is a charming dance piece for children that plunges its young audience into a colourful world of sartorial-based revelry. It
For a repository of northern steel, look towards Leeds city centre at a striking six-storey, grey and glass building next to West
With startling simplicity and intricate cleverness, Kiss and Cry conjures up entire worlds of bittersweet emotion. It tells the story of a
In Blak Whyte Gray, hip-hop dance company Boy Blue Entertainment extend the expressive capabilities of their form in fascinating style. Choreographed by
Acrobat and trampolinist Mathurin Bolze returns to the London International Mime Festival with a mind-bending and utterly compelling sequel to his 2005
English National Ballet triumphed last year with Akram Khan's re-imagined Giselle. Now they return to the rustic Rhineland with Mary Skeaping's traditional
Gandini Juggling's Smashed, inspired by the work of Pina Bausch, involves 22 performers negotiating dozens of apples, chairs and a chintzy tea
National Ballet of China's The Peony Pavilion is a work of enthralling theatrical magic. It’s a strange, sensuous East-meets-West concoction of neoclassical
Spirited young company Ballet Cymru celebrate the centenary of Roald Dahl's birth with two lively tales from Revolting Rhymes, the Cardiff-born storyteller's
To choreograph a dance work to Haydn's magnificent two-hour oratorio The Creation is one hell of a task. In doing so, Rambert's
