The Royal Ballet principal on her changing roles, how she dances through difficult emotions, and being 'a complete bunhead' Marianela Nuñez is one of the most acclaimed ballerinas in the …
Pam Tanowitz hit home at last, Akram Khan and David Bintley bowed out, and the dance world looked back to Merce Cunningham and Margot Fonteyn This felt like a year that belonged to women. F…
Sadler's Wells, LondonAshley Shaw makes a triumphant return as doomed ballerina Vicky Page in Bourne's inspired adaptation The Red Shoes was the film that cemented my love for ballet. I saw …
Royal Opera House, LondonHayward gets things off to a flying start as Ninette de Valois's comic ballet makes an overdue return Dance has a strange relationship with its past. No art form loo…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe Cuban star returns with a buoyant showcase of his Havana-based company, while Michelle Dorrance takes tap to another level Both Acosta Danza and Dorrance Dance are …
From the ballet performances like 17th century catwalk shows to Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw in a tutu, two exhibitions explore a stylish symbiotic relationship The shy bookseller play…
Royal Opera House; Sadler's Wells, LondonThe Royal Ballet is at the top of its game in a new triple bill of MacMillan, Ashton and a pinch of Petipa, while Russell Maliphant creates a mesmeri…
Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House; Sadler's Wells, LondonPam Tanowitz's dazzling new piece for the Royal Ballet worked perfectly alongside Ashton and Cunningham. Elsewhere, the best of youn…
Sadler's Wells, LondonGisèle Vienne creates a mesmeric night of intrigue at a rave, while South African whirlwind Dada Masilo makes a ballet classic her own The women are coming: dark, dang…
Royal Opera House; Barbican, LondonThe Royal Ballet's Vadim Muntagirov and Sarah Lamb, and Boy Blue's Kenrick 'H20' Sandy, excel in otherwise laboured productions One reason critics hate awa…
Sadler's Wells, LondonA hip-hop tribute to Alvin Ailey dazzles with its thrilling interpretation of African American livesThe shadow of Alvin Ailey has always stood over the company he found…
Royal Opera House, LondonThe Bolshoi's London residency concludes with more breathtaking old-school brilliance The dancers of the Bolshoi Ballet have packed up their London base and gone hom…
Sadler's Wells, LondonBourne and his superb dancers inject visceral new life into Shakespeare's overworked tragedy You've got to hand it to Matthew Bourne, choreographer extraordinaire. When…
Edinburgh Playhouse; Royal Opera House, LondonHelen Pickett's inspired new reworking of an American classic is a keeper. And the Bolshoi's comic turns on a collective farm prove irresistible…
Sadler's Wells, LondonYoung hearts ran free in the National Young Dance Company's thrilling Madhead, but too much was asked of four promising choreographersEnd of term in the dance world is …
The Dancehouse, ManchesterTrajal Harrell's thrilling take on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof stands apart at the Manchester international festival " but more is less elsewhere Sometimes you see a danc…
London Palladium; Royal Opera House; Sadler's Wells; BarbicanThe Firebird gets a new lease of life, while San Francisco Ballet mixes Björk with Edith Wharton. Plus, a tribute to a top FelaO…
Barbican Centre, LondonTanowitz's distinctive choreography, seen for the first time outside the US, is a ravishing interpretation of TS Eliot's poem "We shall not cease from exploration," wr…
Sadler's Wells, LondonA new work by Marion Motin holds its own alongside two old favourites in this Rambert triple billIt's a good idea from Rambert's new leadership team of Helen Shute (chi…
Royal Opera House, LondonThe principals lead an emotionally charged reprise of Royal Ballet's old faithful At its premiere in 1965, Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet broke new ground: his…
From TV's 'Strictly' to films about Nureyev and Acosta, the art form once dismissed as elitist is everywhere. One dance critic explains why… It feels like the future," says the BBC's direc…
Sadler's Wells, LondonMyth meets modernity in this profound and thrilling collaboration In the beginning there is a circle of dancers under a golden light, wrapped together like a liquorice …
Sadler's Wells, LondonTanztheater Wuppertal's magnificent dancers are let down by Alan Lucien Øyen's stultifying meditation on loss What was it that made Pina Bausch so special? How did o…
Ballerina who helped build a bridge between classical ballet and the contemporary worldElaine McDonald, who has died aged 75, was one of Britain's most distinctive ballerinas. Her role as mu…
Roundhouse, LondonKhan performs in his intensely beautiful take on the Mahabharata for the last timeAkram Khan made Until the Lions to be performed in the magical, circular space of London's…