Sunday, 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 07:25AMMonday, February 11, 2019
DanceEast, IpswichThe dramatic aerial swimming and plaintive soundtrack of Cousins’s celebrated 2012 work Within Her Eyes is revived for this intriguing programme of duetsWithin Her Eyes, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMThursday, November 22, 2018
Suspiria leads a crop of new films that track a dance troupe along a path of mounting horror. It’s no surprise – dance has age-old links to dread, delusion and deathIs dance-horror a thi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMMonday, October 22, 2018
Imperial War Museum North, ManchesterA dance work about the world flu pandemic that killed millions at the end of the first world war suggests a humanity invadedShobana Jeyasingh’s Contagi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMSunday, October 21, 2018
Manchester Opera HouseThe story of an ill-treated 18th-century convent girl is troubling, but English National Ballet perform Kenneth MacMillan’s version with breathtaking virtuosityThe op…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMFriday, October 5, 2018
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThis sublime show features breakdancing, birdsong and a duet that is an insight into the secrets of choreography itselfThey say it’s the quiet ones you have to watc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48PMMonday, September 24, 2018
The Place, LondonDesigned to be playable anywhere from local theatres to village halls, Ben Wright’s choreographed play has small resources but creates a big worldThere’s a lot to be sai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AMMonday, September 17, 2018
The Peacock, LondonIn their much-loved version, the company subtly point out ballet’s constraints on female dancers while preserving the magic of the storyFounded in 1974 and still going s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AMSunday, September 2, 2018
Undisclosed location, Salford Young performers deliver snapshots capturing the challenges and impacts of male behaviour in a fresh and brashly comic devised showThe venue for Oh Man – an h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMFriday, August 31, 2018
The omnivorous and eclectic choreographer who has died aged 88, represented the last of a historic line In the world of dance, the death of choreographer Paul Taylor marks not only the end o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMFriday, August 3, 2018
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThis energetic, Cuban-ified version of Carmen Jones whizzes by, ricocheting from comedy to melodrama, intimacy to dancing crowdsCarmen La Cubana is a 2016 Cuban makeo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMFriday, July 20, 2018
Tower of London The Israeli choreographer led youth groups in an exhilarating open-air performance to celebrate the gory, glorious history of the city’s East EndIt sounds like a sterling i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMMonday, July 2, 2018
Greenwich and Docklands international festival, Canary WharfFrom Joe Garbett’s playful table-tennis mashup to Gandini Juggling’s deadpan duet, dance acts thrived in the open airOpen-air …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMWednesday, June 27, 2018
Sadler’s Wells, LondonNDT present four pieces including a brilliant reunion for Betroffenheit’s Crystal Pite and Jonathon YoungNederlands Dans Theater is a company of outstanding dancers…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMMonday, June 25, 2018
Greenwich and Docklands international festival, LondonSouthpaw’s open-air work combines the combative prowess of its performers with punchily rhythmic dynamicsNewcastle-based Southpaw Danc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMFriday, June 22, 2018
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe German company perform a trio of suspenseful, deadpan and always sparkling works by William ForsytheIt is not uncommon to see a William Forysthe piece on a ballet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMThursday, June 21, 2018
Birmingham Repertory theatreMore than 100 community performers help fill this ambitious modern-day retelling with soldiers, clubbers, salsa, bhangra, robots, ghosts and Pina Bausch-style cho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMSunday, June 17, 2018
The Place, LondonChoreographer Faustin Linyekula brings a ground-shaking intensity to his odyssey through the virulent history of CongoIn Search of Dinozord begins, as earthquakes do, with a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMThursday, May 31, 2018
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe influential choreographer’s final solo show is a mythic elegy to India’s war deadIt is surely key to Akram Khan’s magnetism that his first training was in k…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMSunday, May 27, 2018
Norfolk and Norwich festivalJigs, folk music and melancholic messages marked this seafront revival of Stopgap Dance Company’s poetic open-air showSandwiched between the beachfront Sea Life…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AMThursday, May 24, 2018
Sadler’s Wells, LondonKim Brandstrup’s mysterious take on Calderón’s 17th-century play is set in an illusory world of doppelgangers, alter egos and unstable duetsBilled by Rambert as …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMThursday, April 26, 2018
Lillian Baylis theatre, LondonCarlos Pons Guerra’s production for DeNada Dance Theatre is a lurid mix of melodrama and showmanshipYoung Spanish-born choreographer Carlos Pons Guerra has be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:04PMSunday, April 1, 2018
Sadler’s Wells, LondonPoet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and director Liv Lorent join forces for a twisted tale of beauty and crueltyFolktales are stories spun of twisted threads – beauty and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:29AMSunday, March 18, 2018
Barbican, LondonArthur Pita’s take on Shakespeare and ballet is paired with Cathy Marston’s masterful adaptation of a Can Themba short story in this inspired programmeWatch any Ballet Bl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:46AMFriday, March 9, 2018
Cast, DoncasterSharon Watson’s show retraces the steps of the Caribbean passengers who landed on British shores 70 years agoIt’s been 70 years – a lifetime – since 492 Caribbean men …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM 
