Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells, London: Can there be a sunnier personality in ballet than Nancy Osbaldeston? The former ENB dancer who has recently joined The Royal Ballet of Flanders …
Linbury Studio Theatre, London: More tightly integrated than their previous outing, there is an organic, holistic feel to this triple bill, as if each choreographer worked from the same blue…
Repertory Theatre, Birmingham: The term 'community theatre' is often the kiss of death for many ostensibly noble productions. It smacks of political correctness and limited horizon…
London Palladium: Michael Flatley may have passed his Lord of the Dance cummerbund on to a younger man, but there is no escaping his presence in the latest show. Part Cirque du Soleil, part …
Coliseum, London: Since leaving the Bolshoi Ballet, the partnership of Osipova and Vasiliev may have sundered with him going to Mikhailovsky Ballet in St Petersburg and she to our own Royal …
London Coliseum: Although they were made separately, the three solos and one duet that comprise Push are so beautifully integrated that they appear to be a single work, exploded to reveal th…
Peacock Theatre, London: Celebrating 40 years of non-verbal mummery, this show from the uber-mime company Mummenschantz selects the best bits and runs them together; therein lies its appeal …
Harold Pinter Theatre, London: What do you do if you want to repeat a successful partnership in a play you last appeared in three decades earlier? If you are Martin Jarvis and Nigel Havers, …
Theatre Royal Brighton: "I seem to live my life six months in arrears," says Dawn French at the start, adding that the show is an attempt to stop time and gather the elements of he…
Jacksons Lane, London: Devised by the south London circus school Aircraft Circus, this is a heady cocktail of sex, strobes and hardcore acrobatics. Audience members are invited to stand, sit…
Royal Opera House, London: If the term 'computational neuroscience' in the programme notes for Alastair Marriott's Connectome makes the heart sink, it is buoyed by the actual …
London Wonderground: She arrives on stage sheathed in gold lame, arms flowing in acknowledgment of the applause. Basking in the adulation she waits for a few moments. Something appears to be…
London Wonderground: If you want circus with a little more fire in its belly than the slick and soulless Cirque du Soleil, look no further than Limbo. Returning for a second season to the Sp…
Sadler's Wells, London: A barely discernible figure walks to the front of the stage, turns and walks back again. Then another. And another. The light is so dim it is almost impossible to tel…
Stratford Circus, London: Yet another dance piece inspired by the First World War, Darshan Singh Buller's first major work since Caravaggio contrasts the past conflict with the present …
Roundhouse, London: Created by the company from personal experiences of scores of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning folk, this is a show that wears its heart on its sleeve.…
London Coliseum: Of all the performing arts, dance exhibits the greatest degree of sexuality. Whether it is the amused detachment of Ashton, the pathological passion of MacMillan or the rauc…
Sadler's Wells, London: After flirting unnecessarily with gender equality by revising the production with six men and six women, Michael Keegan-Dolan has restored the male-heavy stage presen…
Sadler's Wells, London: Savion Glover is to tap dance what Israel Galvan is to flamenco: a revolutionary virtuoso, a fearless exponent of a traditional art who stretches the boundaries of th…
Milton Keynes Theatre: Boxing and dance are not especially strange bedfellows - both involve structured movement, grace under pressure and an aesthetic use of space, but dance doesn't i…
Peacock Theatre, London: Thought to have originated during the Han Dynasty in China (206 BC-220 AD), shadow theatre is the earliest form of motion picture projection. Britain's Got Tale…
The Place, London: I don't mind being told what to think. But I object to being told what I am thinking. The fundamental flaw in Luca Silvestrini's flailing investigation into Engl…
Linbury Studio, London: Cassa Pancho's small but perfectly formed company of black and Asian dancers fits neatly onto the stage of the Linbury Studio, as the big beasts of classical bal…
Royal Opera House, London: Considering how many cooks have stirred the broth of this work since its creation in Imperial Russia in 1890 it is a miracle that it has survived with such integri…
Soho Theatre, London: Rarely has a work been so aptly titled. Brighton-based Probe's latest venture into fusion performance is an empty vessel, a rust bucket running out of gas in a cre…