300 stories by "Anna Winter"
November is dark and dank; the world is in a state of perpetual crisis. So to watch the Royal Ballet in Sylvia
Charming children's dance-theatre show Tidy Up takes aim at anal retentive orderliness with brightly-coloured balloons, confetti and cushions. But it doesn't simply
Kyle Abraham's Pavement is a cri de coeur for black America. Political, painful and cerebral, it's written in a far-reaching physical language
It's important to tell the story of Pussy Riot. It's entirely laudable to give privileged Western audiences some idea of the systemic
A finely-tuned marriage of musical understanding and feeling: Anna Winter reviews a triple bill of works performed by the Royal Ballet.
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In 2016, an Australian TV documentary revealed shocking levels of mistreatment meted out to inmates " mainly aboriginal youths " in juvenile
Dapper style, disillusion, desire, a dildo in the filing cabinet " The Butch Monologues explores different aspects of queer experience and gender
The Famous Lauren Barri Holstein " performance artist, dancer and academic " has much to say about representations of femaleness and self-determination
Though technical standards are high, Birmingham Royal Ballet's latest triple bill fails to set Sadler's Wells ablaze. In Arcadia, the first main
Libby Liburd is a single parent. Like 91% of single parents " who head up one in four UK households " she's
Victoria Melody's father is the TV antiques dealer Mike Melody, ousted from ITV for the grave misdemeanour of "yawning at David Dickinson
Yorke Dance Project perform Kenneth MacMillan's only barefoot ballet with a remarkable sense of enigmatic drama and technical assurance. A chamber piece for
Kenneth MacMillan's final work The Judas Tree is an emotionally eviscerating ordeal of a one-act ballet. Performed by the Royal Ballet as
Jazzy trots, pom-pom berets and balletic vaudeville swagger: Anna Winter reviews Concerto / Le Baiser de la fee / Elite Syncopations.
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Plenty to unpick: Anna Winter reviews Shobana Jeyasingh's take on Marius Petipa's La Bayadere.
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The best fairytales filter dark material through the realm of fantasy. Angela Clerkin's firmly tongue-in-cheek fairytale for grown ups The Secret Keeper
Stoke-on-Trent in the early 1950s: the pot banks threw out smoke and the horizon, if you could see it, was lined with
In Event of Moone Disaster, the 2016 winner of the Theatre503 Playwriting Award, heralds a triumphant launch to the career of its
Precarity, pride and power underpin Oli Forsyth's riveting Kings. It's both a compassionate political indictment of the contemporary rise in homelessness and
Data-inspired dance: Anna Winter reviews the latest work from Company Wayne McGregor, inspired by mapping the human genome.
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A rasping, strident horn heralds the arrival of Medea. A draped and veiled figure, she emerges from an upstage hinterland of shadows
The latest star vehicle for Strictly faves Flavia Cacace and Vincent Simone inadvertently offers a deeply dismal and reductive take on modern
To mark 25 years since the death of the ballet maverick, five companies from around the UK will join the Royal Ballet
Hijabi Monologues isn't about oppression or radicalism or what it means in religious terms to wear the headscarf. These things are touched
Gyre and Gimble’s retelling of the Hartlepool Monkey legend is highly skilful, slick and unsettling. It’s a strangely pitched production. Marketed as
