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 10:06AMLowry, 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 04:36PMBirmingham 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 08:03AMRussell 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 03:32PMAvailable 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 07:54AMIn 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 05:18PMAvailable 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 03:03PMDancers 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 11:06AMThis 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 09:18AMGrand 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 10:54AMSadler’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 08:48AMBarbican, 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 11:12AMLeeds 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 01:24AMTobacco 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 05:06PMBarbican, 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 06:42AMSouthbank 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 11:12AMGreen 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 11:42AMA 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 10:36AMSadler’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 01:03PMBarbican, 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 02:06PMBirmingham 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 11:06AMRoyal 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 12:18AMThe 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 07:06AMDancers, 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 07:54AMSadler’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 05:12PMPalladium, 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 08:48AMQueen 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 09:42AMGulbenkian 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 01:00AMSadler’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 07:35AMGrand 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…
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