247 stories by "Sanjoy Roy"
Linbury Theatre, LondonThe cast is strong, but too many questions are left unanswered in this under-choreographed depiction of madness and myth Continue reading...
Linbury Studio, LondonMatthew Bournes Swan Lake and Aakash Ohedras Unearthed feature in an uneven but intriguing lineup that weaves in the cinematic and the theatrical Unearthed: Chris Ofili…
Linbury Studio, LondonThe renowned ballerina moves into contemporary dance in four duets with different choreographers Continue reading...
Royal Opera House, LondonThe Cuban superstar's mixed bill oscillates between transfixing works and less engaging pieces Continue reading...
Milton Keynes international festivalThis procession for almost 100 performers is a clever synthesis of the natural and the spiritual Rosemary Lee: how to create a large-scale, site-specific …
Purcell Room, LondonThis musical dance-theatre piece has striking sounds and images, but there's simply too much going onGenre-busting performance group Clod Ensemble, headed by choreographe…
What gets top dancers moving behind closed doors? We asked Tamara Rojo, Eric Underwood, Akram Khan, Paul White, Martina Bussi and other big names and got some surprising answersDancing to T…
Purcell Room, LondonIn Pact With Pointlessness, Wendy Houstoun's response to the death of a fellow dancer, she asks the big existential questions Wendy Houstoun: the death that made me quest…
Sadler's Wells, LondonAkram Khan draws out brilliant performances from the dancers in these two powerful pieces Akram Khan on finding a 'purer form of interpretation' with young dancers Form…
Baras is the ideal dancer to begin the yearly Flamenco festival, but this material confines her art rather than igniting itSara Baras is a natural choice to kick off the annual Flamenco fest…
Laban theatre, LondonThe company of disabled and non-disabled dancers presented three stimulating works " from living-doll cameos and gladiatorial rituals to a study of human vulnerabilityTh…
Zoo Nation's rhythmic fireworks and soulful music make you want to get up and dance' Read more from the Musicals we love seriesDespite breaking box-office records for a West End dance show w…
Print Room, LondonThe second in Hubert Essakow's trilogy conjures a love triangle through vignettes fired by fantasy, rivalry and remembranceThe second of Hubert Essakow's planned trilogy of…
Barbican, LondonScritti Politti meets pilates and punk in Clark's focused triple bill, exploring the tension between formality and urgent energyCharacteristically, Michael Clark's All Three …
Royal Opera House, LondonShakespearean English meets Welsh in this curious multimedia Macbeth with fascinating " and curious " resultsJudith Roberts's Cardiff-based company De Oscuro special…
Royal Opera House, LondonOne of Wayne McGregor's most enjoyable works begins a mixed evening that concludes with Kenneth MacMillan's crude interpretation of StravinskyIt may be called Chroma…
Central Saint Martins, LondonThe works in Trisha Brown's farewell tour are a bracing pleasure to watchLate last year, pioneering American choreographer Trisha Brown announced she'd be retiri…
An exhibition in Liverpool aims to acknowledge the richness of black dance in Britain, from the 1940s to the present day"Like Britain itself," says dance history professor Ramsay Burt, "Brit…
Sadler's Wells, LondonFor 20 years, the American choreographer William Forsythe was director of the Frankfurt Ballet, where he created a series of highly technical, determinedly experimental…
The Place, LondonTen years after his first Scottish Dance Theatre commission, Montreal-based Victor Quijada has returned with Second Coming " aptly titled not just as his second company piec…
The Place, LondonIf it's new year, it's time for Resolution!, the Place's platform for new works by novice choreographers. Artists ranging from Wayne McGregor to Tino Sehgal took their first…
Sadler's Wells, LondonCesena is choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's sequel to En Atendant, with which it has much in common. It begins as En Atendant had ended, with a naked man in da…
Sadler's Wells, LondonAs a gaunt man slowly raises a flute and exhales into it raggedly, an unearthly noise emerges: a blend of ascending siren whistles and long, rasping sighs like the groa…
Tate Tanks, LondonCross-disciplinary, multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary ... the terms are often used rather nebulously in the admittedly nebulous field of live art. But the word that spri…
Trafalgar Square, LondonWhat's the big idea behind Big Dance? The biannual London-based programme is designed to big up the profile of dance through a network of assorted events, performance…
