Royal Opera House; Pleasance theatre, LondonSupporting players shine in a splendid Giselle, while a two-woman show about urban life has wit and poignancyGiselle is the greatest of the Romant…
Wilton's Music Hall; Greenwich Dance, LondonBlood and terror saturate Mark Bruce's vivid Odyssey. And take a bow, Tara d'ArquianMark Bruce is one of the most consistently thought-provoking c…
Royal Opera House, LondonNatalia Osipova is a natural as the scandalous Madame X in Christopher Wheeldon's new ballet Strapless. If only we cared about her…The Royal Ballet's current tripl…
Palais Garnier, ParisWith the mood still raw after his resignation from Paris Opera Ballet, Benjamin Millepied presents a provocative triple billOpening the day after Benjamin Millepied's sh…
Last week Benjamin Millepied resigned as head of dance at the prestigious Paris Opera Ballet, criticising the company's rigid ways. Luke Jennings, who spoke to the choreographer twice in rec…
Barbican, London Yoann Bourgeois's circus-influenced piece has a dramatic tilting stage and his dancers in a spinYoann Bourgeois is a French choreographer based in Grenoble. He came to dance…
Peacock theatre, LondonJakop Ahlbom's loving homage to horror films is a masterclass in time-and-motion stagecraftJakop Ahlbom's brilliantly strange Lebensraum was one of the cult successes …
Royal Opera House, LondonHayward is astonishing, easy perfection in classic Frederick Ashton. In the Royal Ballet's second cast, Steven McRae takes commandThe Royal Ballet's revival of Frede…
The choreographer Akram Khan has said that the number of female choreographers should not be increased "for the sake of it", despite industry concerns that women in dance face much greater o…
Roundhouse, London Akram Khan dances what is likely to be one of his last roles in his supremely potent retelling of the MahabharataIn 1987, 13-year-old Akram Khan was cast in Peter Brook's …
Festival theatre, EdinburghChristopher Hampson's lyrical Cinderella for Scottish Ballet delivers drama, emotion and really annoying stepsisters…A fairy-story ballet is not easy to get righ…
Enthralling dance came in tiny packages in 2015, as productions triumphed on a shoestring, a cliff-face, a grain of sand… ' Observer critics' reviews of the year in full2015 was a year in …
Sadlers Wells, LondonA traditional take on the story of Aurora and the dark fairy Carabosse suffers from the lack of a believable love story, but has a suitably magical feelMatthew Bourne's …
Coliseum, LondonThe virtuoso dance star approaches his final farewell with an evening of short worksOnly rarely does a male ballet dancer truly capture the public's imagination. When it happ…
German choreographer whose bleak vision changed the face of European danceThe work of the German choreographer Pina Bausch, who has died aged 68 of cancer, had a controversial, often violent…
Palais Garnier, ParisThe Paris Opera Ballet celebrates Pierre Boulez's 90th birthday with a strong triple bill that features two British choreographersLast week, the Paris Opera Ballet prese…
Chelsea theatre, LondonJoseph Mercier reimagines Swan Lake as one man's struggle with the (naked) self. And a very dead birdThe reworking of classical ballets by contemporary choreographers …
Royal Opera House, LondonThe Royal Ballet's Ashton double bill finds Cuthbertson and Muntagirov struggling to take offThe Two Pigeons was choreographed by Frederick Ashton and first performe…
DanceEast, Ipswich; Galvanisers Union, LondonRenaud Wiser's take on the Snowden affair has more craft than story, while Kaleidoscopic Arts head for the pub…Renaud Wiser is a Swiss-born dan…
Sadler's Wells, LondonChristopher Bruce rocks, Didy Veldman takes on Picasso and Kim Brandstrup gets to grips with Schoenberg in Rambert's triple billRambert's latest triple bill turns its g…
Royal Opera House, LondonThe Royal Ballet showcases its best and its most chaotic in the same evening, from impeccable Balanchine to Carlos Acosta's new CarmenThe Royal Ballet's new quadrupl…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe world's deepest cave is a metaphor for hell in La Veronal's arcane but rewarding production that's indebted to BuñuelToday's choreographers must know more than d…
DeNada Dance Theatre's smart meditations on sexual identity and machismo could teach larger ensembles a thing or twoCarlos Pons Guerra grew up on the island of Gran Canaria. As a teenager he…
O2 Academy, London Hofesh Shechter has this rock venue jumping with his cathartic piece about indoctrinationPolitical Mother, created by choreographer-composer Hofesh Shechter in 2010, is a …
Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, LondonThe tender expressiveness of 52-year-old Ferri carries Martha Clarke's adaptation of Colette's obsessive love storyChéri, the 1920 novel by th…