247 stories by "Sanjoy Roy"
Sadler's Wells, LondonThey make an improbable pair " MarÃa Pagés an earthy flamenco dancer, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui a contemporary dancer, as supple as a sapling. But they have one gift in …
This Dutch choreographer's distinctive personal style mixes formal austerity and glassy elegance with erotic chargeIn shortDutch choreographer Hans van Manen has been called the Mondrian of …
Sadler's Wells, LondonFor one weekend each spring, Sadler's Wells is transformed. Its foyers throb with sound and throng with young people, and on every floor you come across eager displays …
It Needs Horses should never have galloped away with the audience vote, still less the UK's biggest choreography prize. Maybe it's time for AV?So there I was the other night, at the finals o…
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonIt's 20 years since choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh founded her own company. Introducing a special anniversary programme, Southbank Centre head Jude Kelly rightly…
Sadler's Wells, London★★/★★★★A season of four early works by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has shown that right from the beginning she was a tenaciously…
The Place, LondonAn intrepid and spirited company, Scottish Dance Theatre has regularly commissioned choreographers previously unknown in the UK; their current double bill is by two new Amer…
The Place, LondonBawren Tavaziva's Double Take came with a prologue: local schoolchildren performing scenes they had developed in workshops. This warm-up act pointed up the strengths and wea…
Javier de Frutos revels in the raw and the provocative but his new collaboration with Pet Shop Boys is for the familyIn shortA maverick, an iconoclast and a heretic, Javier de Frutos is an i…
Whitechapel Gallery, LondonThe Whitechapel Gallery invited three very different sets of dance artists to "animate" Shadow Spans, their long-standing gallery installation by Claire Barclay. F…
Arts Depot, LondonMichael Nunn and William Trevitt, aka the Balletboyz, have always been media-savvy. Having stopped dancing, they have ditched their cheeky double act, recruited nine young …
A crossover pioneer, this American choreographer melds classical ballet with modern, jazz, ballroom and even aerobics in an energetic mix that impresses, if not always endearsIn shortTwyla T…
Nottingham ArenaStrictly Come Dancing Live is exactly as described: the television show performed on stage. Celebrities from the 2010 season, plus old-timers Ricky Whittle and Colin Jackson,…
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We've heard lots about Natalie Portman's travails as a fictional prima ballerina in Darren Aronofsky's film, but she's just the latest in a long line of doomed cinematic dancersWARNING: cont…
Coliseum, LondonRudolf Nureyev's version of Romeo and Juliet " restaged by English National Ballet, the company for which it was first created in 1977 " reads like a cross between Shakespear…
Yvonne Rainer and her works are uncompromising, challenging and highly influential. But she won't be guesting on X FactorIn shortAn artist who is anti-art, an activist who is also an aesthet…
Linbury Studio, LondonFirst shown as a studio performance in summer 2008, William Tuckett's Faeries has been revised as a Christmas children's show for the stage, with some key changes: it's…
Bill T Jones has spent his dance career making the personal political provoking both acclaim and controversy along the way Continue reading...
A founding father of Britain's modern dance movement, this American disciple of Martha Graham was famed for his expressionistic style ... not to mention his silver platform shoes Continue re…
Experimenting with film, theatre and music from Bach to Baez, this natural born choreographer holds her audiences captive, writes Sanjoy Roy Continue reading...
He's the ballet punk whose choreography turned him into dance's rock'n'roll legend. Sanjoy Roy profiles the rise, fall and rebirth of an iconoclassicist Continue reading...
