Sunday, May 20, 2018
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonThe annual festival of new work saw the fruits of previous commissions from the likes of Salah El Brogy, Sally Marie and Dane HurstMonday saw the opening night of Ig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMSunday, May 13, 2018
The Place, LondonAhn Sungsoo impresses with his gracefully balanced work for the Korea National Contemporary Dance CompanyThe Korea National Contemporary Dance Company was founded by the cou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMSunday, May 6, 2018
Drawn from a decade of the Manchester dance company’s work, this frustrating triple bill lacks focusCompany Chameleon was founded in 2007 by two graduates of the Northern School of Contemp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMSunday, April 29, 2018
Sadler’s Wells, LondonCarlos Pons Guerra’s unflinching reimagining of Beauty and the Beast could hardly be more timelyIn the six years since he founded the UK-based DeNada Dance Theatre,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMSunday, April 22, 2018
Barbican, LondonViviana Durante revives early works by Kenneth MacMillan in a programme full of poignant insightsWhen the choreographer Kenneth MacMillan died in 1992, he left behind him mor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMSunday, April 15, 2018
Royal Opera House, London As vixen, coquette and victim, the Royal Ballet’s Francesca Hayward, Natalia Osipova and Marianela Nuñez all touch greatness in the coveted role of Kenneth MacMi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:59AMSunday, April 8, 2018
Sadler’s Wells, LondonAntic fun abounds as poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy casts a peculiar spell on BalletLorent’s version of the Grimm fairytaleLiv Lorent founded BalletLorent 25 years a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, April 1, 2018
Building 17, Woolwich Royal Arsenal, LondonThe audience engage directly with the dancers in an intense and intimate performanceIncreasingly, choreographers see themselves as initiators, as c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:59AMSunday, March 25, 2018
Sadler’s Wells; Royal Opera House, LondonJoyous music and moves vie with the slow-motion final hours of a dying woman as Alain Platel ‘sees how far’ he can go. And Bernstein to the pow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMSunday, March 18, 2018
Laban theatre, LondonThe seriously impressive young Belgian choreographer concludes her Nietzschean trilogy with dance that’s stripped to the boneTara D’Arquian is a Belgian choreographe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMSunday, March 11, 2018
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe Canadian company takes traditional training to bold new places in works by director Emily Molnar, Crystal Pite and Sharon EyalWith the future of ballet very much …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMTuesday, March 6, 2018
Femmes, a triple bill for a Canadian ballet company, highlights the need for the art form to rethink its attitude towards womenLast week the Montreal-based Grands Ballets Canadiens announced…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:41AMSunday, March 4, 2018
Wilton’s Music Hall; Hackney Showroom, LondonThe heart’s deepest desires are visited by Jonathan Goddard’s lean and savage thane and Sweetshop Revolutions’s celebration of sexual awa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, February 18, 2018
Battersea Arts Centre, Royal Opera House, LondonShakespeare’s lovers live on as a warring couple trapped in a romantic narrative, while a superb cast atone for a flawed Winter’s TaleLost…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, February 11, 2018
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsStories of the Windrush generation of Caribbean immigrants to Britain are movingly told by Phoenix Dance TheatreA great pyramid of packing cases and trunks aga…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, February 4, 2018
The Place, LondonPreoccupations with our fleeting existence loom large in a trio of new works at this year’s Resolution festivalNow in its 29th year, the Resolution dance festival staged b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, January 28, 2018
Royal Opera House, LondonThe Royal Ballet star is transcendent in the title role – with seven more principal ballerinas about to step into her shoes When Peter Wright mounted Giselle for t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, January 21, 2018
Coliseum, LondonTamara Rojo and Ivan Vasiliev are superb as a painter and his cruel muse in a subversive ENB double billEnglish National Ballet, to borrow from TS Eliot, are much possessed b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, January 14, 2018
Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe global circus troupe’s insect-themed extravaganza is technically astonishing but fails to engage on a deeper levelCirque du Soleil is an odd beast. At a time w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, December 31, 2017
Sadler’s Wells, LondonVisual magic outweighs occasional longueurs in this welcome revival of the choreographer/director’s wartime fairytaleMatthew Bourne’s latest revival of Cinderella…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMSunday, December 24, 2017
Up and down the land this winter, Clara and the prince of her dreams will dance through a flurry of snowflakes to Tchaikovsky – and packed houses. So what makes this annual ballet fix…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMSunday, December 17, 2017
Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells, LondonCorey Claire Annand bewitches as a freezing waif in Arthur Pita’s quirky, imaginative update of the Hans Christian Andersen classicTo 19th-cen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMThursday, December 14, 2017
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe challenge facing any choreographer of the Cinderella story is Prokofiev's score. Written during the second world war, it has a sombre undertow which lends its roman…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:04PMSunday, December 10, 2017
Ballet felt a little flatfooted as contemporary dance caught the shape-shifting spirit of our times• Observer critics’ reviews of the year in fullIn 2017, the best dance asked the hardes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMColiseum, LondonSergei Polunin’s intense three-part show, featuring Natalia Osipova and guests, is far from perfect but it resonates with an authentic emotional chargeSergei Polunin’s Sa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMSunday, December 3, 2017
The Place, LondonAlpha males and new men collide in Charlotte Vincent’s witty study of what it means to be a 21st-century guyVincent Dance Theatre’s new work, Shut Down, is about me…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMSunday, November 26, 2017
Coliseum; Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe pick of male ballet talent struggle to shine on Ivan Putrov’s bare stage, but Kyle Abraham sends his dancers soaringMen in Motion, Ivan Putrov’s cel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMSex on crutches? It can only be the work of Canadian controversialist Marie ChouinardMarie Chouinard is a 55-year-old Canadian choreographer whose work is known for its sexually voyeuristic …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMSunday, November 19, 2017
Sadler’s Wells, LondonSix dancers strip and grapple with abandon in this Bauschian take on intimacy. Then it’s time for audience participation…Meg Stuart is an American choreographer b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMSunday, November 12, 2017
Royal Opera House, LondonThis mixed programme – including the latest new piece to include a rape scene – suggests the Royal Ballet’s commissioning policy needs a total overhaulThis Roy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMSunday, November 5, 2017
Laban theatre, LondonClinkard’s dancers often perform just inches from the audience in this unashamedly joyous workThere’s a deceptive simplicity to Theo Clinkard’s choreography. It’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AM 
