409 stories by "Luke Jennings"
The Pit, Barbican, LondonDewey Dell's weird, manga comics-inspired show is an intriguing curio that overstays its welcomeDewey Dell are an Italian experimental performance group that, since …
Coliseum, LondonEnglish National Ballet guest artist Xander Parish " British star of the Mariinsky " is world-class. Isn't it time he was lured back to London?Mary Skeaping's production of G…
Royal Opera House, LondonWayne McGregor's ambitious triptych based on the multi-dimensional works of Virginia Woolf was a gamble that has paid off in exhilarating styleWhen the final curtain…
Barbican, LondonHip-hop dance crew Boy Blue Entertainment tackle the nature of identity in an awesome three-part showBoy Blue Entertainment is a hip-hop dance company founded in 2002 by the …
Grand theatre, LeedsDominique Larose's serene Beauty leads the way in David Nixon's timely take on the fairytaleNorthern Ballet's Beauty and the Beast is a traditional fairy story choreograp…
Sadler's Wells, LondonBourne's deft and sumptuous new adaptation of The Red Shoes sticks closely to Powell and Pressburger's film, but is still finding its feet dramaticallyMatthew Bourne's …
Coliseum, LondonBoris Eifman's reworking of F Scott Fitzgerald is beautifully danced but stunningly insensitiveBoris Eifman is one of Russia's most prolific choreographers. In 1977, aged 30,…
Times were tough but inventive, with fine work from old hands and female dance-makers forcing change' Observer critics' reviews of the year in fullThis has been a year in which experience ha…
Sadler's Wells, LondonMichael Keegan-Dolan has moved Swan Lake to the middle of Ireland and made it a thing of wonderThere are so many new versions of Swan Lake, and almost all of them are u…
Hackney Showroom, LondonImpermanence Dance Theatre are going on a sexploration, delving into the ideas of Wilhelm Reich and the pioneering electronic music of Ursula BognerImpermanence Dance…
Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells, LondonHetain Patel swaggers, sashays and speaks out in his deeply unsettling satire on misogynyHetain Patel is a performance artist from Bolton whose ne…
Sadler's Wells, LondonRambert dance Haydn beautifully, but was the Garden of Eden quite this decorous?Mark Baldwin, artistic director of Rambert, is not a man to shrink from a challenge. Jos…
Royal Opera House; the Place, LondonWayne McGregor celebrates a decade at the Royal Ballet with dystopias and dreamy la-la lands. And Charlotte Vincent patrols the pre-teen battlegroundIn ce…
Sadler's Wells, LondonChoreographer Iván Pérez's attempt to conjure up the horrors of trench warfare is overlong and over-beautifiedThe suffering of the young men who fought in the first…
Jerwood Dance House, IpswichArthur Pita's latest is a little bit Snow White, a little bit HellraiserArthur Pita is one of today's most original choreographic voices. He's an accomplished fas…
Royal Opera House, LondonFine performances lift this Royal Ballet revival of MacMillan's strange ballet about the woman who claimed to be a lost RomanovIn 1967 Kenneth MacMillan choreographe…
Sadler's Wells, LondonJérôme Bel's mixed ability show is full of charm, if not entirely artlessJérôme Bel is a French choreographer whose work challenges the conventions of dance as …
Birmingham HippodromeDavid Bintley's uninvolving new version of The Tempest is symptomatic of an identity crisis in British balletThe Tempest, David Bintley's new work for Birmingham Royal B…
Royal Albert Hall; Barbican, LondonCarlos Acosta bids a glorious goodbye, while Michael Clark keeps ploughing his weird and wonderful furrowLast week Carlos Acosta, the greatest male classic…
Palace theatre, ManchesterEnglish National Ballet's dancers delight in Khan's 21st-century Giselle. All it needs now is a plot…Akram Khan's new production of Giselle for English National B…
Sadler's Wells, LondonSix dancers move as one in Sharon Eyal's gravely beautiful exploration of the obsessive-compulsive stateL-E-V is an Israeli dance company created by choreographer Sharo…
Rich Mix, LondonClassical Indian dance meets Bollywood drag in a night of tradition and subversionAkademi was founded in 1979 to promote the understanding of South Asian dance in Britain, an…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe American troupe's thrilling programmes transform oppression into a night of pure joyThere is a haunting symmetry to the opening-night programme of Alvin Ailey Ameri…
St Petersburg Ballet's no doubt heartfelt take on the refugee crisis is undone by poor plotting, weak choreography and some astonishingly ill-judged costumesThe St Petersburg Ballet Theatre …
Various venues, EdinburghLove, death and fairytale footwear are explored in the smallest of spaces at the Edinburgh fringeDance always puts up a good front on the Edinburgh festival fringe, …
