Royal Ballet principal dancer Edward Watson and the artist Conrad Shawcross take on Titian " with a little help from a raw-steel goddessThere's a point in any experimental production when no…
Sadler's Wells; Barbican, LondonPina Bausch's dance cycle World Cities is one of the artistic centrepieces of the London 2012 festival. In collaboration with Sadler's Wells and the Barbican,…
The Place; Barbican theatre, LondonIn the programme for her new work, You May!, choreographer Zoi Dimitriou announces that she intends to explore the notion of a society "where the old parad…
Sadler's Wells; Royal Opera House, LondonViktor, created in 1986 by the German choreographer Pina Bausch, opened at Sadler's Wells last Wednesday. Inspired by Rome, it's the first of 10 piec…
Sadler's Wells; Royal Opera House, LondonMatthew Bourne's Early Adventures is a triple bill of the dance-maker's work, created between 1988 and 1991. Since then, Bourne's reworkings of balle…
Sadler's Wells; Royal Opera House; both LondonAngelin Preljocaj is one of the grands noms of French choreography. Of Albanian origin, he trained in classical ballet before turning to contemp…
Sadler's Wells; Royal Opera House, LondonWatching the second cast of Liam Scarlett's Sweet Violets at the Royal Opera House last week I was reminded of George Balanchine's dictum that "there…
Coliseum, LondonThe Russian choreographer Boris Eifman arrived in London last week following a New York season that saw him greeted with mixed reviews. According to the online magazine NYC D…
Set in a Palladian villa in Richmond Park, White Lodge is already one of the most fiercely competitive schools in the country. But young British dancers are finding it tougher than ever Cont…
Royal Opera House, London; Sadler's Wells, LondonWhen she was 16, Melissa Hamilton was turned down by the Royal Ballet School. A late starter, she had grown up in Northern Ireland, where goo…
Sadler's Wells; Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonNDT2 is an offshoot of Nederlands Dans Theater, the contemporary dance ensemble that achieved worldwide fame in the latter decades of the 20th cen…
Linbury Studio theatre, LondonCreating repertoire for a chamber ballet company is tricky. How do you ring the changes, given sparse resources and a mere handful of dancers? Ballet Black, now…
Birmingham Hippodrome; Linbury Studio, LondonDavid Bintley created Hobson's Choice in 1989 for the Royal Ballet touring company which was soon to sever its links with Covent Garden and becom…
Royal Opera House; Sadler's Wells, LondonFollowing Sergei Polunin's abrupt departure from the Royal Ballet, last Monday's opening night of The Dream saw Steven McRae assume the lead role of …
A 'banana millionaire', a pair of Bolshoi defectors, an avant-garde Spaniard and an all-powerful agent are the principals in this power struggleOn 15 December, during a nationwide TV broadca…
The detail, the exquisite control, the lyrical flow ... this clip shows why Kirkland remains a cherished legend of American ballet Continue reading...
The Place, LondonMichelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was a dangerous man. Violent and sexually profligate, he murdered a pimp, escaped from prison, and was the victim of a vendetta, dying befo…
Choreographed by Nureyev, what marks out this astounding performance is its restraintIf there was ever such a thing as "the English style" in ballet, its male exemplar was Anthony Dowell. Lo…
Royal Opera House, LondonKenneth MacMillan's Manon, which had its premiere in 1974, is set in one of the most decadent periods in French history: the regency of Philippe d'Orléans, which fo…
The arms have it " what performers create with them elevates dance beyond language, be it hip-hop or balletOur link to last week's clip of Sarah Lamb and Federico Bonelli is swans. Here is t…
Peacock theatre, LondonWhen Into the Hoods opened at the Novello theatre in 2008, it was the West End's first hip-hop show and it would mark the evolution of British hip-hop from a street fo…
In this clip of a detached duet from Wayne McGregor's Chroma you can clearly see the classical roots beneath his modern styleLast week we watched a clip of Yuri Soloviev, the Kirov dancer, a…
Sadler's Wells, LondonCheckmate, the chess ballet choreographed in 1937 by Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet, is a revered heritage piece. So revered, in fact, that its turgid p…
Behind the iron curtain, Russian dancers meant business. In this spectacular piece, Yuri Soloviev leaps almost to his own head heightLast week we saw Alla Sizova dancing in Le Corsaire in 19…
Royal Opera House, LondonThe Royal Ballet's Marguerite and Armand has dated since its creation by Frederick Ashton in 1963. Originally a vehicle for Nureyev and Fonteyn, the piece tells the …