Thursday, April 11, 2024
Sadler’s Wells, LondonWorks from veteran dancers Germaine Acogny, Malou Airaudo, Louise Lecavalier and Ben Duke challenge perceptions of age, with performances full of spirit and maturity
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:02PMTuesday, March 12, 2024
A decade after his award-winning Dracula, Mark Bruce has pared down Mary Shelley’s gothic classic and taken a cue from its subtitle ‘The Modern Prometheus’
‘The idea of a creature ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMThursday, January 11, 2024
My former colleague John Ashford, who has died aged 79, was a key figure in contemporary dance in the UK and beyond, both as director of the Place theatre in London (1986-2009) and founder-d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AMMonday, November 13, 2023
Choreographer, creative director and co-founder of Second Stride, a company that transformed contemporary dance in the 1980sThe choreographer and creative director Ian Spink, who has died of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMThursday, November 9, 2023
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThis ‘psychic landscape of Albion’ deploys a huge ensemble to send its dancers spinning through a patchwork of national mythology
You have to hand it to BalletBoy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMMonday, September 11, 2023
As she brings her new show, Dragons, to the UK, the innovative choreographer discusses shaking off traditional norms and how shaving her head helped her find her own energy
Ochre wall, plum …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:25PMSunday, May 7, 2023
Curve, Leicester The US dancer conjures a potent spectacle filled with mysterious symbolism as three figures strain, combine and detach in stirring, almost ritual patterns
There’s a strang…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMWednesday, April 19, 2023
The Yard theatre, LondonMarikiscrycrycry opens this year’s Now festival with an occasionally baffling trip through sex, fear and fantasies
Established in 2014, the Yard theatre’s Now fes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMSunday, February 5, 2023
Linbury theatre, London The American choreographer showcases three works with the Royal Ballet, the newest of which examines the idealism and corporeality of womanhood
The Royal Ballet now h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:02PMFriday, December 16, 2022
Exhilarating highlights this year ranged from tech-savvy ballet and a juggling celebration of Merce Cunningham to a daring flamenco Rite of Spring
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When S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMSunday, November 27, 2022
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe maverick choreographer makes his mark on The Rite of Spring in this elementally austere exercise in anxiety and loose-cannon footwork
In 1913, The Rite of Spring …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMThursday, November 17, 2022
Lilian Baylis theatre, LondonFresh pieces by the company of disabled and non-disabled dancers open up its artistic direction
Although the pandemic scuppered some plans for Candoco – such a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMWednesday, November 2, 2022
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonFlorentina Holzinger’s show has inspired audience walkouts but others stay and cheer at its bloody-minded audacity
Premiered in Vienna in 2019, Florentina Holz…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMTuesday, September 6, 2022
Theatre Royal Drury Lane, LondonRalph Fiennes introduced this gala honouring the ballet legend, which boasted a dazzling lineup of dancers including Natalia Osipova and Cesar Corrales
Introd…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:37AMMonday, June 20, 2022
Linbury theatre, LondonA hardworking young company showcase a range of dance styles to music including classical, rock and contemporary
The Royal Ballet’s Next Generation festival is a pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07AMFriday, June 17, 2022
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThis mini festival celebrating the older dancer features powerful performers – and is defiantly not pretty
Founded in 2014, Sadler’s Wells’ Elixir festival is a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMSunday, June 12, 2022
Royal Albert Hall, LondonBourne’s 1950s potboiler has been beefed up for a larger venue. The result is classy, trashy – and deeply serious
Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man is a steamy, pul…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMSunday, May 29, 2022
Sadler’s Wells, LondonUsing music from Americana to Afrobeats, the final part of this Israeli company’s trilogy on love is beautifully danced but doesn’t go anywhere
This final part of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMSunday, April 10, 2022
Victoria multistorey car park, Leeds
Amanda Piña’s dance inspired from the Mexican border town of Matamoros filled the perfunctory setting with pulsating beats and tinsel-clad movement
Am…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMThursday, March 31, 2022
180 Studios, LondonIvan Michael Blackstock’s interrogation of stereotypes is broodingly atmospheric, strewn with imagery and often highly effective
How to show stereotypes of black masculi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:37AMSunday, March 20, 2022
Sadler’s Wells, LondonOne French choreographer whistles during his dance in Somnole, while another takes us into a dark, murderous forest in This Is How You Will Disappear
Whistle while yo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54PMSunday, March 13, 2022
Sadler’s Wells, LondonWhile Andreou clearly pursues a path and a purpose with her 2018 work, Rizzo’s directionless fantasy world is a rambling trip
Minimalism has many guises. If the ope…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMThursday, March 10, 2022
Sadler’s Wells, LondonA terrifically varied programme began by pairing daring new work from Brigel Gjoka and Rauf Yasit with Lucinda Childs’ iconic 1979 Dance
The astonishingly rich prog…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PMFriday, February 11, 2022
The Place, LondonBlack-clad extras loom and the sound booms as impressive dancers look to illuminate the pyschologist’s theories of humanity’s secret faces
Company Chameleon’s The Shad…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMSunday, February 6, 2022
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonThe 13-strong cast dive with gusto into the gap between seeing and looking, us and them, and you and me
“What do you see when you look at me?” chant The Pappy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMWednesday, January 19, 2022
Coliseum, LondonEven if the drama disappoints in parts, the music and dancing in Tamara Rojo’s brave, inventive take on the 19th-century, will-she-won’t-she love story is a delight
It’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMSunday, November 21, 2021
Sadler’s Wells Theatre, LondonThe choreographer draws on his own experiences to create a powerful evocation of alienation, oppression and memory
Depression is more than just dark, or down:…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMMonday, November 15, 2021
Linbury theatre, LondonYolande Yorke-Edgell and company join the dots between the founder-mother of American modern dance Martha Graham and the late Robert Cohan
Programmes by Yorke Dance Pr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33AMSunday, November 7, 2021
Linbury theatre, LondonWill Tuckett makes visual poetry of love, war and the work of Adrienne Rich, while Mthuthuzeli November journeys to a glitter-coated land of showtime
What kinds of tim…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMThursday, October 21, 2021
The creator of the show Samskara on how race, masculinity, psychology and emotion have shaped his work for stage and screen – and why he never wants to be put in a box
Who is Lanre Malaolu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMSunday, October 17, 2021
Sadler’s Wells, LondonFascinating in its form, enigmatic in its meaning, this double bill is full of delights
As a company of variously abled and disabled dancers, Candoco generally presen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PM 
