A screen role as an expectant dancer prepared Bobbi Jene Smith for the real thing. She talks about doing the bump … with a bump It's a case of life imitating art. In the new film Mari, Bob…
Choreographer Claire Cunningham's new piece, which premieres at Manchester international festival, pays tribute to tribute artists For one weekend every year, the small town of Porthcawl in …
Ino Moxo, Peruvian choreographer Oscar Naters's new show, aims to faithfully recreate the ritual experience of taking ayahuasca " so much so the performers took the hallucinogen in rehearsal…
Their moves are fresh, funny and stylish; their subjects include the climate crisis, gender politics and poetry. These electrifying choreographers are on the rise A Peter and the Wolf where …
As the explosively powerful dancer makes the leap into film, she talks about feeling bloodied and bruised by her latest work " and how loving her dogs helps her perform Natalia Osipova was s…
The American company visited the UK with four triple bills: here are 10 things we learned from their thrilling season 1) This is a company with a hunger for new work. The second week of thei…
Sadler's Wells, London A season of 10 UK premieres opens with a cold-hearted Edith Wharton tale, Soviet struggles with Shostakovich, and an X-rated artpop class Stylish, forward-thinking, te…
Barbican, LondonWith unfussy, Cunningham-influenced movement alongside Kathleen Chalfont's readings, Pam Tanowitz has distilled Eliot's essence Choreographer Pam Tanowitz has been quietly p…
The Place, LondonBased on classical Indian dance forms, Seeta Patel's interesting chamber version uncovers the lyricism in Stravinsky's score The Rite of Spring is a totemic work in the worl…
Sadler's Wells, LondonChristine and the Queens' choreographer Marion Motin delivers a pounding debut, alongside early work by Wayne McGregor and Hofesh Shechter French hip-hop choreographer …
Highlights of the new season include a ballet by Cathy Marston about cellist Jacqueline du Pré, and Wayne McGregor's take on the Divine Comedy A ballet based on the life of Jacqueline du Pr…
The lovers are back " as jaded fortysomethings fighting over chores in Ben Duke's production, and as lust-crazed teens in Matthew Bourne's Matthew Bourne never fancied remaking Romeo and Jul…
The woman who got Christine and the Queens and Dua Lipa moving talks about her switch to Rambert and partying on tour with Madonna 'I'm a lazy girl," says Marion Motin, laughing at herself. …
Royal Opera House, LondonCrystal Pite reinvents the corps de ballet, alongside Christopher Wheeldon's classy meditation and a flawed world premiere by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui The world premiere…
They started out as sprinters on the racetrack " but ended up as dancers on the stage. Meet the explosive Alleyne sisters In the summer of 2012, Kristina and Sadé Alleyne's Olympic dream ca…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe tradition-trashing dancer serves up a brilliant, table-stomping blend of experiment, absurdity and subversion We arrive at Israel Galván's fiesta when it feels a…
Southwark Playhouse, LondonA crack cast fire up this romp through Fats Waller's music, directed by Tyrone Huntley with moves by the Strictly dancer The black box of Southwark Playhouse is tr…
Sadler's Wells, LondonAnne Teresa de Keersmaeker's choreography for the composer's music, played by cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, is austere and enigmatic If you were going to choose a choreo…
The idea still makes people uneasy but two new plays " Fighter and The Sweet Science of Bruising " explore the courage, pain and history of women boxers 'I always try to say this without sou…
Barbican, LondonSix decades of solos form an unsentimental and surprising celebration of the legendary choreographer's highly technical dance experiments On what would have been Merce Cunnin…
As her acclaimed take on Four Quartets heads to London, choreographer Pam Tanowitz explains why she's still trying to crack the poem Her choreography has been hailed by the New York Times as…
The Sharks-v-Jets classic is told with Jerome Robbins' 'perfect' moves, admits Aletta Collins. How did she create new ones? Aletta Collins is telling me about what arrived in the post when s…
Sadler's Wells, LondonIbsen gets an urgent retelling, Kahlo dances with a monkey and Bausch's masterwork is back in Tamara Rojo's stellar triple bill In 2016, English National Ballet directo…
Ballet shoes have always been a pale peachy pink because it was assumed dancers were, too. Now a British footwear company is striking a blow for ballerinas of colour everywhere When Ballet B…
Royal Opera House, LondonLauren Cuthbertson and Matthew Ball sumptuously express the recklessness of youth in Kenneth MacMillan's fine ballet We think of Romeo and Juliet as a story about lo…