409 stories by "Luke Jennings"
Sadler's Wells, LondonA thrilling new full-length work from Wayne McGregor shares his awe at the nature of the universe and humanity's place in itIn a recent essay in the American magazine N…
Royal Ballet, LondonCarlos Acosta's new production of the problematic ballet is flawed, but fixable. And besides, it's a lot of funOn the face of it, the decision by the Royal Ballet to comm…
Tobacco Factory, BristolMark Bruce's deliciously droll adaptation of Dracula is a must-seeTranslating fiction into dance is dangerous. Cliched set pieces, plots shorn of nuance, naff pe…
The pioneering Canadian choreographer talks about the challenge of reinventing story-led dance for modern audiencesThere's a new spirit abroad in choreography. It offers us beauty and exhila…
Peacock theatre, LondonJasmin Vardimon's murder mystery is hampered by extraneous characters, bad sound and too much conceptual fogJasmin Vardimon is a fine observer of the minutiae of human…
The Lion and Unicorn, LondonA festival of small-scale works presents a mixed bag in an unlikely venueThe GOlive dance and performance festival is the brainchild of George Sallis, director of…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThis sharp-edged revival of the tale of New York gangs is a joyOn the opening night of West Side Story in 1957, US supreme court justice Felix Frankfurter collared…
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonKate Prince's hip-hop Wizard of Oz set in a school blighted by government cuts is fast and fluent funThe concept behind ZooNation's hip-hop show Groove On Down th…
Royal Opera House, LondonThe dream team of Vasiliev and Osipova take this Soviet-era curio to new heightsIn the 1930s, the Soviet authorities commissioned a handful of choreographers to crea…
Royal Opera House, LondonOlga Smirnova, the Bolshoi's newest star, is truly dazzlingJewels was created for New York City Ballet in 1967 by Balanchine, and was inspired by the choreographer's…
Coliseum, LondonRoland Petit's Coppélia opened in London last week, danced by Moscow's Stanislavsky Ballet and starring Sergei Polunin. It's not a good production. The original work, create…
Coliseum, LondonThe Boston Ballet have not visited London for 30 years, and a palpable excitement preceded the company's arrival last week. The company was founded in 1964, with the choreogr…
The Place, LondonWhen I was a dancer, I hated auditions where you had to sing. I only did a few, but even now, thinking about the long walk on to the stage, the bored pianist, and the half-d…
Sadler's WellsThere's no exhilaration quite like that of a Forsythe Company evening. American choreographer William Forsythe is a visionary whose work demands serious engagement, and can nev…
Royal Albert Hall, LondonEnglish National Ballet's Swan Lake in the round had its premiere in 1997. Choreographed by Derek Deane, then director of the company, it has been seen by more than …
Queen Elizabeth Hall; Rich Mix; Royal Opera House, LondonThe choreographer approaching The Rite of Spring is like the surfer approaching a giant wave. He, or she, risks obliteration " by the…
Royal Opera House; Sadler's Wells, LondonWhen the choreographer Wayne McGregor and the novelist Audrey Niffenegger decided to collaborate on "a new fairytale" for the Royal Ballet, it was a …
Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, LondonWitch-hunt is a narrative ballet created by British choreographer Cathy Marston for Bern Ballett, the Swiss company she has directed since 2007. Mars…
Abbey theatre, DublinThe Dublin dance festival was launched in 2002, since when it has gone from strength to strength. Last week the 2013 festival opened with Stravinsky Evening, a double bi…
Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, LondonFor the subject of his first full-evening ballet, Liam Scarlett takes the Brothers Grimm fairytale Hansel and Gretel, about two children imprisoned b…
Connaught, Worthing; Royal Opera House, LondonPhoenix dance theatre is on a high. With new purpose-built premises in Leeds, and a charismatic director in Sharon Watson, the 10-strong ensembl…
Want to be a ballerina? No problem. But any girl dreaming of a career in choreography had better mind the glass ceiling…As a nation we are well supplied with choreographers. Matthew Bourne…
From a sociopolitical sensation to an explorer of the tensions of motherhood, here are four women taking steps to upstage Britain's old boys' network' Why does the dance world keep creative …
From a sociopolitical sensation to an explorer of the tensions of motherhood, here are four women taking steps to upstage Britain's old boys' network' Why does the dance world keep creative …
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