409 stories by "Luke Jennings"
Robin Howard Dance Theatre; Royal Opera House, LondonLast week, the four finalists for the 2013 Place prize for choreography showed their work on the stage of the Robin Howard Dance Theatre.…
Coliseum; Sadler's Wells, LondonEcstasy and Death is the first English National Ballet programme assembled by Tamara Rojo since she assumed the company's artistic directorship last year, and…
Royal Opera House; Coliseum, LondonIt's an ill wind that blows no one any good. So far, April has been marked by substitutions, injury and last-minute departures. At Covent Garden, Alina Coj…
Coliseum, LondonOn Thursday a great silence settled over London's dance world. For 10 days we'd been in the grip of Hurricane Natalia, and then suddenly she was gone and we were left dazedly…
Coliseum; Royal Opera House, LondonThe Mikhailovsky Ballet is St Petersburg's second classical dance company, and half the size of its grander sister, the Mariinsky. In 2007 the company hit …
The Place, LondonBen Wright is a British choreographer whose work has been seen in the West End, at Glyndebourne and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He is also the founder and directo…
Sadler's Wells, LondonBalletBoyz is a title Michael Nunn and William Trevitt never much wanted. But it's stuck to them like glue ever since, in 1999, the two of them made a video diary for C…
Linbury Studio theatre, LondonLast month, Cassa Pancho, the founder and director of Ballet Black, went to Buckingham Palace to collect the MBE she'd been awarded in the New Year honours list…
Barbican, LondonThe Brazilian choreographer Deborah Colker formed her own dance company in 1994, since when it has performed worldwide, funded by the oil company Petrobas. Colker's productio…
Royal Opera House, LondonJohn Cranko's 1965 ballet Onegin, based on Alexander Pushkin's narrative poem, is a compelling but dramatically flawed work. The story tells of mousy Tatiana, who fa…
The Place, LondonThe Place is currently holding its annual Resolution! season of new work. It opened on 8 January, and by 15 February the theatre will have presented 81 different pieces. Aud…
Old Vic Tunnels; Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe Young Vic's production of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner had its premiere at the Epidaurus festival in Greece last year. Coleridge's poem, whic…
Royal Opera House, LondonWhen Diaghilev's Ballets Russes first presented The Firebird (L'oiseau de feu) at the Paris Opera in 1910, it was hailed as a masterpiece. As an impresario, Diaghile…
Sadler's Wells, LondonTchaikovsky's three great ballet scores were those he composed for The Nutcracker, Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty in the later years of the 19th century. In 1992, Ma…
The Place, LondonThere's a sequence in Vincent Dance Theatre's Motherland that's repeated at intervals throughout the two-hour piece. Aurora Lubos enters with a bottle of blood-red dye, slop…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe Gates of Hell, a monumental sculpture by Auguste Rodin, was commissioned in 1880. The work depicts a scene from Dante's Inferno, and its form was inspired by the br…
Birmingham Hippodrome; Royal Opera House, LondonBoth of Britain's Royal Ballet companies have been dancing Swan Lake this month, and both have seen significant debuts. In Birmingham, Trinida…
Peacock theatre, LondonGreat dance theatre doesn't come about by accident. It's born of constant experiment, reassessment and refinement. Some Like It Hip Hop was written, choreographed and …
The first mixed-race leads in Swan Lake say that skin colour is no barrier in British balletOn Friday 5 October, at the Birmingham Hippodrome, Céline Gittens and Tyrone Singleton of Birming…
Linbury Studio, LondonHeadspace Dance is a company of just three members: Christopher Akrill, Charlotte Broom and Clemmie Sveaas. All are highly expressive performers with a strong reco…
Southbank, LondonUnlimited Global Academy is an evening of work directed by the British visual artist Rachel Gadsden and born of the notion of "invisible trauma". Handicapped by spinal probl…
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Sadler's Wells; Old Royal Naval College, LondonPlay Without Words was created by Matthew Bourne for the National Theatre's 2002 Transformation season, which set out to explore ways of attrac…
Royal Opera House, LondonIn presenting Birthday Offering, choreographed by Frederick Ashton in 1956 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the company's foundation, the Royal Ballet is taking …
North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford; Soho theatre, LondonLike a dead sun, the 70s still exert a huge gravitational force. It was a decade of extremes: of unprecedented hedonism and artistic freed…
