Sunday, 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 08:54PMFriday, October 8, 2021
Gulbenkian theatre, CanterburyActions speak louder than words as a talented cast take a guided tour of our most intimate relations
Didy Veldman’s @Home grew around the idea of being “at…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03PMThursday, October 7, 2021
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonSome 70 dancers reacquaint audiences with the BAC building in a sumptuous feast from James Cousins Company
Though it features some 70 dancers, James Cousins’ W…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12PMSunday, September 19, 2021
The Place theatre, LondonThe Korean choreographer’s all-female re-working of this 2019 piece builds patterns and variations to an ecstatic finale
Sung Im Her’s W.A.Y is a “re-work” �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54PMThursday, September 16, 2021
Sadler’s Wells, LondonHofesh Shechter presents two contrasting pieces: Clowns, which lambasts our seeming indifference to violence, and a tender antidote called The Fix
The ringmaster tryi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMThursday, September 9, 2021
Birmingham HippodromeTaking elements of contemporary, hip-hop, classical Indian and streetdance, Rosie Kay’s version of Shakespeare has a clamour of activity and ideas
This autumn brings …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMSunday, July 25, 2021
Milton Keynes international festivalInspired by formal portrait photography of black Victorian Britons, Jeanefer Jean-Charles’s sensual dance work restores life and humanity to its forgott…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMMonday, June 21, 2021
Lowry, SalfordThree androgynous, silver-clad dancers loop and glide through a retrofuturist sealed set in Requardt and Rosenberg’s spaced-out touring production
Shows that are distributed …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36PMSaturday, May 22, 2021
Birmingham Repertory theatre The choreographer returns to the stage with a superb new work, Adult Female Dancer, part of a compelling evening of three solos
Absolute Solo II is a sequel – …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMTuesday, December 8, 2020
Russell Maliphant places movement front and centre of A Christmas Carol and dance is also boosting screen successes like Lovers Rock and Giri/Haji
Dance and cinema have a common source. The …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PMFriday, August 21, 2020
Available onlineJawole Willa Jo Zollar’s three-decade-old piece on homelessness takes on potent new meaning during Covid crisis
The best theatre and dance to watch online
Some dances seem …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMFriday, August 7, 2020
In Hoppla!, Achterland and Mitten, the Belgian dance legend manages a dynamic mix of composition and choreography
The Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has always been engross…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PMWednesday, July 22, 2020
Available onlineFrauke Requardt and Daniel Oliver reprise their brave, surreal 2019 show for the coronavirus age
In autumn 2019, the married couple Frauke Requardt and Daniel Oliver toured a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03PMThursday, July 16, 2020
Dancers are taking tentative steps back to work, giving socially distanced performances outdoors in Germany, France and the Czech Republic
Tamas Detrich, director of Germany’s Stuttgart Ba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMThursday, June 11, 2020
This is a moment of movement: as people gather to push for change, collective dancing has become activism in motion
The protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd have spread across the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMSunday, March 15, 2020
Grand theatre, LeedsThis lavish production uses cinematic design to chilling effect and terrific choreography to drive the drama
Kenneth Tindall’s Geisha for Northern Ballet echoes the arc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMWednesday, March 4, 2020
Sadler’s Wells, LondonChoreographer Crystal Pite and theatre-maker Jonathon Young combine their worlds for a riveting piece
Actors speak, dancers move. In Revisor, choreographer Crystal Pi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMWednesday, February 26, 2020
Barbican, LondonSweeping nostalgia meets occult menace in this three-part homage to dance pioneer Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan was a founding figure of modern dance. Replacing ballet’s po…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMFriday, February 14, 2020
Leeds PlayhousePhoenix Dance Theatre’s new piece contains flashes of anguished brilliance but feels cut off from its subject matter
In 2018, Phoenix Dance Theatre’s Windrush premiered ju…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24AMFriday, February 7, 2020
Tobacco Factory, BristolMark Bruce’s latest work is sensationally stimulating but perilously dizzying and hard to stomach
Mark Bruce is a fascinating, highly distinctive choreographer, his…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06PMThursday, January 23, 2020
Barbican, LondonThis third part of Peeping Tom’s trilogy surreally explores the innocence and danger of childhood, but it’s definitely not for kids
Having already graced the London inter…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMTuesday, January 21, 2020
Southbank Centre, LondonThis devised drama about relationships between young men moves from grim violence to understanding
Physical theatre company The PappyShow devises its material through…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMThursday, December 19, 2019
Green Dragon hotel, Hereford2Faced Dance put on a reality-busting promenade performance featuring parkour, slapstick and a sit-down dinner
‘Come along, chop-chop!” say our minders, rathe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMSunday, December 15, 2019
A snogtastic Romeo and Juliet from Matthew Bourne and an international dance-a-thon celebrating Merce Cunningham join a mixed troupe of winners
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PMJerwood DanceHouse, IpswichPita’s adaptation of Mick Jackson’s splendigly lugubrious children’s book mixes mime, acting, song and dance to pleasingly twisted effect
If you like a happy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM 
