Do you know your entrechats from your fouettés? What Beyoncé learned from Betty Page? In a new weekly column looking at dance in detail, Luke Jennings takes a closer look at the dazzling f…
Works of art often reference other works of art, so is the Belgian choreographer right to accuse the R&B star of plagiarism in her new music video?To read about Beyoncé Knowles and Anne Te…
Barbican, LondonChoreographer Merce Cunningham was a pioneer of 20th-century American modernism. His career was epic in scale, spanning 67 years and more than 180 productions. Cunningham die…
The choreographer best known for long-running West End hit Into the Hoods on her new work, Some Like It Hip HopYour new show, Some Like It Hip Hop, performed by ZooNation Dance Company, was …
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe Canadian choreographer Édouard Lock formed La La La Human Steps in 1980 as a vehicle for his high-energy dance works. Intense, precise and often confrontational…
The ex-Beatle wrote the score for Ocean's Kingdom and his daughter Stella made the costumes " what could possibly go wrong? A damp squib of a story, that's whatWell, the critical verdicts ar…
Royal Opera House; Linbury Studio, LondonThere was something infinitely poignant about George Balanchine's obsession with Suzanne Farrell. The year was 1967. He was the 63-year-old director …
Curve theatre, LeicesterIn the opening moments of Desh (homeland), Akram Khan walks on to the stage in shirt and dhoti trousers. His tread is weary and he is holding a lamp, as if clocking o…
Sadler's Wells, London EC1You have to pay attention during a production by the Flemish-Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui; there's invariably a lot going on. Minutes into TeZukA, hi…
Edinburgh Playhouse; King's theatre, Edinburgh; Edinburgh zooThe Finnish choreographer Jorma Elo is resident choreographer at Boston Ballet. Popular and prolific, he has made work for numero…
Birmingham HippodromeThe Guangdong Acrobatic Troupe of China was established in 1951, and since then has performed all over the world. The UK first saw the company's extraordinary version of…
Royal Opera House, LondonLast Tuesday the Mariinsky Ballet's two-day run of Don Quixote opened with Denis and Anastasia Matvienko in the lead roles of Basil and Kitri. The production, based …
A dancer from Hull has emerged from the shadows of the Royal Ballet to star in the legendary Russian company's ChopinianaThe current Covent Garden season by the Mariinsky Ballet has been a f…
Royal Opera House, LondonA half-century ago, the Kirov Ballet visited London for the first time. Known before the Russian revolution as the Imperial Russian Ballet, and today as the Mariinsk…
Coliseum, LondonThe audience at the London Coliseum was treated to a thrilling display of virtuosity on Friday night when Ivan Vasiliev, the 22-year-old Bolshoi sensation, took the lead rol…
Sadler's Wells, LondonAge can be cruel to dancers. To classical dancers, in particular, for whom performing is often a brutal struggle against nature. The human body is not designed for ball…
Sadler's Wells, LondonAlain Platel is a choreographer and the founder of the Belgian new wave dance company Les Ballets C de la B, and Frank van Laecke is a theatre director. Together they h…
Chisenhale Dance Space; O2 Arena; Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, all LondonOff-radar and unfunded, the Chisenhale Dance Space is the nearest thing London has to an underground dance sce…
Kevin O'Hare is a popular choice for artistic director, but the company may have missed its cue to shake off that cosy Englishness. No such problems at National Dance Company WalesThe announ…
Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, LondonMichael Clark, choreographer, ex-heroin addict, and pin-up boy of the 1980s Blitz kids, is 50 next year. And while his work continues to develop and refine w…
Being spat at by a naked dancer during St-Pierre's Un Peu de Tendresse was deeply unpleasant, but it is the pretentious and sexist show that is more objectionableIn today's Daily Mail, Quent…
Royal Opera House, LondonIn Scènes de ballet, choreographed in 1948, Frederick Ashton created a work of unanswerable formal perfection. The Stravinsky score, which Ashton discovered while l…
In its crass attempt to shock, this Sadler's Wells show provided the most unpleasant moment I've experienced in the theatreWe all knew that the Dave St-Pierre show Un Peu de Tendresse, Borde…
Sadler's Wells, LondonRambert Dance Company's current triple bill is evidence of a company testing its limits and seeking to expand them. The evening starts undemandingly, with Henrietta Hor…
Royal Opera House, LondonGeorge Balanchine choreographed Ballo della Regina in 1978 to music from Verdi's Don Carlos. Fraught with technical challenge, it was created as a showcase for the p…