The rising dance star on the exchange of ideas in her collaboration with Richard Alston, kathak's rhythm and grace, and meditating before rehearsalReaching the final of the BBC Young Dancer …
From trying out the trapeze to finding his own moral compass, the actor on the challenges of playing Shakespeare's flawed king in the RSC's history cycle My older brother died when I was fin…
The Good Wife's star recalls how appearing in Phyllida Lloyd's all-female Julius Caesar gave her the confidence to write her own playI often use male speeches in my warm-ups before going on …
In the last of our dancers' diaries, the flamenco legend says the genre is not about technique but emotion " above all, it must come from the heartFor almost 20 years, I have maintained my o…
The director recalls her 1994 Talawa production of the tragedy, in which 39-year-old Ben Thomas was cast as a last-minute king after Norman Beaton fell illI am a Shakespeare freak. It's abou…
'Images and ideas land in the mind,' says theatre designer Tom Scutt. 'Sometimes an image is hard to shake, and the job is to work out why it's there.' Images like the myriad white balloons …
When the 16-year-old South African was told he was too short to become a principal dancer, it motivated him to prove himself. He talks medals, 6am starts and two-minute napsBallet came to me…
For director Paula Garfield, translating Love's Labour's Lost into British Sign Language was a tall order, right down to the title. But her Globe production made magic from the metaphors of …
Tanztheater Wuppertal's Fernando Suels Mendoza on what he learned from the great German choreographer " and how it feels to perform her worksToday we had a rehearsal for Pina Bausch's The Ri…
The rising dance star on the exchange of ideas in her collaboration with Richard Alston, kathak's rhythm and grace, and meditating before rehearsalReaching the final of the BBC Young Dancer …
Billy Warren, currently appearing with Duncan James and Joe Pasquale in Aladdin at Southampton's Mayflower theatre, tells us what it's like doing two challenging performances every dayWe do …
Jemima Rose Dean, a cast member of 'full-on' stage show The Wyld, talks about dancing in sparkly high heels, BMX bike stunts and her canine co-starsThe Wyld, our show at the Friedrichstadt-P…
What's it like to perform in a razzle-dazzle New York musical? Exhilarating and exhausting, says the tap-dancing, high-kicking star of Dames at SeaPerforming in a musical is demanding " we h…
The rider Herwig Radnetter is partnered with a Lipizzaner stallion in the Spanish Riding School's majestic shows, which demand discipline, balance and the shiniest shoesThe Spanish Riding Sc…
Our series on dancers' lives continues with Isabelle Van Den Bergh's day at the Parisian theatre, from a can-can warm-up to shows that require 10 costumes eachOur theatre is full of painting…
In the first of a new series exploring dancers' lives, Xander Parish of the Mariinsky Ballet gets into the role of Romeo, explains how to be the perfect partner and considers his hectic sche…