247 stories by "Neil Norman"
With contributions from no fewer than four choreographers the Royal Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty certainly gives you more bang for your bucks. Marius
English National Ballet’s festive offering is a Nutcracker of a different colour. Unlike the Royal Ballet’s majestically comforting production, Wayne Eagling’s version
Don’t you just love it when footwear fits perfectly? Matthew Bourne and The Red Shoes were made for each other. Hans Christian
The Eifman cometh. Celebrating 40 years as founder of Russia’s leading contemporary dance company, Boris Eifman enters the mouth of madness once
Nutcrackers come and Nutcrackers go but the Royal Ballet’s version is a hardy perennial. Peter Wright’s version of Lev Ivanov’s original 1892
Conformity, uniformity and anonymity are not words that spring to mind when thinking of the spectacular productions by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre
There is certainly no blubber on James Wilton's dance work inspired by Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick. It opens with a lone female
Has it really been 10 years since Wayne McGregor's appointment as the Royal Ballet's resident choreographer? Was it a decade ago that
Of the five new pieces on display here only one is not created around the traditional boy/girl relationship. For a new company
As two of his rarely seen plays arrive at Trafalgar Studios, the iconoclastic playwright, actor and director talks to Neil Norman about
Every step of the gender reassignment process takes Sophie Don, who is training at Lynton Academy of Dance, closer to her dream
Phil Eddolls doesn't like labels. "I just work in theatre," he says. Having designed sets for theatre, ballet, site-specific performances and at
Turning Fyodor Dostoyevsky's philosophical murder novel Crime and Punishment into a musical is a big ask. Yet that is what director-adapter Phil
On my way up in the Royal Opera House lift to meet Liam Scarlett, I encounter dancer Steven McRae. Currently in rehearsal
Rat Scabies is dancing around a rehearsal room in Southwark. The former drummer with punk group the Damned, Scabies is warming up
Innovation, inspiration and perspiration characterised the year in dance. It was a year of inevitable departures and untimely deaths. It was the
Now in her fourth year as principal dancer and artistic director of English National Ballet, Tamara Rojo has handled her roles with
There can't be many choreographers whose name inspires an entire festival of work. In fact, there aren't any. With one honourable exception:
It sounds like a film by Mel Brooks: Swan Lake " Men in Tutus. Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo is an
I try to avoid reading the programme notes before seeing a ballet, especially a new one. In the cases of contemporary works
Javier de Frutos is having a salad for lunch. For some reason this takes me by surprise. I expected him to be
Peacock Theatre, London: Cirque du Soleil's hipper, sexier cousin Cirque Eloize is a boundary-pushing group with theatre in its soul. The combination of narrative, dance and circus skil…
The Point, Eastleigh: The sputtering soundtrack suggests the era of the 1930s; the planks and girders and wind indicate the top of a skyscraper under construction. But it is the programme li…
Sadler's Wells, London: A showcase for work in progress by independent choreographers attached to Sadler's Wells, this is the first programme of its kind. The choices might have proved …
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London: More than cabaret, less than circus, Oktobre is a potpourri of acts anchored by a concept that has the slippery logic of a dream. Designed and dressed…
