Sunday, 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
More on the best culture of 2019 Continue read…
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 10:36AMWednesday, November 27, 2019
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe Temple of Fine Arts explode with energy and Nahid Siddiqui captivates with her lightness and gravity
Initially a showcase for Indian classical music, since 2017 t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMSunday, September 29, 2019
Barbican, LondonRhythms ricochet around an imaginary cell as the hip-hop partnership return with a darker, depression-themed piece
In 2017, Boy Blue – the hip-hop partnership founded in 20…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PMFriday, September 27, 2019
Birmingham Hippodrome Three dancers explore the harmony between music and movement in a show that flirts with parody as it unleashes joy
‘Don’t Mickey Mouse!” It’s one of the most ba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMTuesday, July 16, 2019
Royal Exchange theatre, ManchesterPhelim McDermott’s sublime collage of theatrical fragments is the fantastical, tearjerking fruition of a lifelong dream
In his youth, the actor and direct…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18AMMonday, July 15, 2019
The Dancehouse, ManchesterCat on a Hot Tin Roof with voguing sounds interesting, but Trajal Harrell’s parade of dancers modelling soft-furnishings to free jazz is more vague than vogue
Ame…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMSunday, July 7, 2019
Dancers, actors and digital animation combine for a spectacle in an old railway depot, while Alphabus flexes its muscles at Manchester international festival
The dance strand of the Manchest…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMWednesday, June 26, 2019
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThree dances with differing tones and temperament, including Jessica Lang’s Lyric Pieces and Ruth Brill’s Peter and the Wolf, make for an ambiguous show
As a titl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMSunday, June 2, 2019
Palladium, London Ballet and B-movies collide as Sergei Polunin revives Russian villain Rasputin, suffers with Nijinsky, and tackles toxic masculinity with a pineapple
Once famous only withi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMWednesday, May 8, 2019
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London Performers scurry across the stage in Deborah Colker’s inventive but scattershot show about the people of the Capibaribe River
Brazilian choreographer Deborah…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMMonday, April 15, 2019
Gulbenkian theatre, CanterburyFour performers deftly bring the Saint-Exupéry story down to earth in Luca Silvestrini’s comic production
In Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic children�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMSunday, March 17, 2019
Sadler’s Wells, LondonRooted in traditional Greek dancing, the choreography only blooms when it ditches folky footwork for more elastic moves
The Thread has the hallmarks of a particular k…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:35AMSunday, March 10, 2019
Grand theatre, LeedsCathy Marston’s new ballet about Queen Victoria and her daughter Beatrice is outstandingly choreographed, cinematically scored and danced with nuance
Reading is a profo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AM 
