Thursday, December 4, 2025
Tall, handsome and used to receiving fire emojis on his social media posts, the dancer has, with his partner Mayara Magri, been called ‘the Posh’n’Becks of ballet’. But there is suff…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMSadler’s Wells East, LondonScrooge is a glam ice queen fashion maven until her heart is melted in ZooNation’s delicious festive show – danced to a blisteringly high standard
Who knew B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMWednesday, December 3, 2025
Emerald theatre, LondonA mashup of Irish dance, tap and talent-show sparkle, Adam Garcia’s party wins you over with its energy and enthusiasm
In the nicest possible way, this feels a bit l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AMFriday, November 21, 2025
Sadler’s Wells, LondonA trio of choreographers respond to Muhly’s vivid scores with works that veer from the meditative to the macabre
If you thought we had exhausted shows that were pos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMSunday, November 16, 2025
Royal Opera House, LondonIn an engaging triple bill, a new work from Cathy Marston explores the emotional charge of Britten’s Violin Concerto, while works by Justin Peck and George Balanch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMFriday, November 7, 2025
Sadler’s Wells East, LondonAkeim Toussaint Buck’s bass-heavy production invites the audience to get up and lose themselves in the music
A must for reggae lovers, and anyone in the marke…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMWednesday, November 5, 2025
The Place, LondonInspired by The House of Bernarda Alba, Amina Khayyam explores tensions between tradition, freedom, fear and love
I admire the work of Amina Khayyam. The Slough-based dancer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMMonday, November 3, 2025
Her latest work is built on dark, minimal beats and groups of dancers moving in unison. It’s sensual, visceral and, she says, totally intuitive
A couple of summers ago I was in a club in M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMFriday, October 31, 2025
Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, LondonMixed bill features twee neo-classicism, jazzy frocks and racial antagonism as it rachets up to an urgent and commanding Salomé that feels genuinel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMThursday, October 30, 2025
Somerset House and Stone Nest, London Installations, some triggered by the viewer’s own body, show off the wide range of a choreographer always fizzing with fresh ideas
Wayne McGregor want…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AMWednesday, October 29, 2025
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe mythological piece for 12 female dancers was developed in Saudi Arabia and pulsates with physical intensity and ancestral rage
Akram Khan is a choreographer at hi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PMWednesday, October 22, 2025
Stage@leeds/Stanley & Audrey Burton theatre, LeedsAmrita Hepi measures words and movement as she talks through her artistic journey and Tiran Willemse takes Moon River in a new direction…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06PMSunday, October 19, 2025
The Place, LondonThis delightfully unique triple bill spans many worlds with Busby Berkeley-style sci-fi formations, a hazy summery waltz and a wild rampage of Welsh folk dance
The sequins a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06PMYork Theatre RoyalJeyasingh’s choreography is well wrought and precise but Caliban’s struggles with servitude and resistance feel adrift amid a sea of ideas
Choreographer Shobana Jeyasin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMFriday, October 17, 2025
Barbican, LondonAmala Dianor Company and baroque ensemble Les Arts Florissants combine for an occasionally exquisite yet oddly dispassionate show
The marrying of music and dance is an indefa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMWednesday, October 15, 2025
Mimi’s Shebeen, choreographed by Alesandra Seutin, charts South African legend’s exile and ascendancy with ‘beautiful songs, strong messages and moments that hit’
“You speak about …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AMTuesday, October 14, 2025
What will the ballet dancer of the future look like? We visit the hunting lodge where the next generation are being trained – and find huge changes are under way
It’s an idyllic autumn …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMMonday, October 6, 2025
As her company prepares to celebrate its centenary, the legendary choreographer’s groundbreaking work is finally getting the respect it deserves in the UK. What took so long?
A century ago…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMFriday, October 3, 2025
Sadler’s Wells East, LondonDance Umbrella festival opens with a bold yet alienating piece inspired by mythology and magical realism
It’s as if you’ve turned up at the party when they�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMSadler’s Wells, LondonIn a stunning evening, fearless and faultless dancers deliver a trio of classics, ending with a gorgeous yet more subdued piece by David Dawson
English National Balle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24AMMonday, September 29, 2025
Bristol Beacon Composer Jóhann Jóhannson’s moody film, narrated by Swinton and inspired by a classic novel, gains little from a live dance interpretation
Is it possible for the apocalyp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMFriday, September 19, 2025
The choreographer has paired the tragedies of Oedipus Rex and Antigone in a monumental double bill, Jocasta’s Line, which refuses to spoon-feed audiences
When Stravinsky composed Oedipus R…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMTuesday, September 16, 2025
The internationally feted choreographer has worked with pop megastars, a sculptor and the monks of the Shaolin Temple. Now he is tackling the cultural divisions and colonial legacy of his ho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02AMSunday, September 14, 2025
Sadler’s Wells, LondonAlina Cojocaru is breathtaking, Ratmansky’s music zings and Joseph Taylor gets a fantastic angry solo
It’s exciting when artists push boundaries, melt genres, re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMFriday, September 12, 2025
Peacock theatre, LondonStarting from a single dancer, an intricate moving patterns of limbs forms a complex weave of shifting patterns in Sadeck Berrabah’s technically impressive show
Ther…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMWednesday, September 10, 2025
Frauke Requardt and Vivienne Franzmann’s dance-theatre show Anatomy of Survival examines 23 versions of reality in ‘powder keg’ cities
One morning, playwright Vivienne Franzmann was qu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24AMThursday, September 4, 2025
Southbank Centre, LondonA cast of 80 spray-paint the pavement, parade a 40-phone selfie stick and bring dirty bass to ballet in (La)Horde’s night of sensational dance morsels
A black stret…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMThursday, August 28, 2025
Andrea Riseborough and Sarandon deliver a decade-hopping drama, superstar standups hit the road and Shobana Jeyasingh rewrites Shakespeare
• See the rest of our unmissable autumn arts prev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMWednesday, August 20, 2025
Rachael Gunn’s disastrous summer at the Paris Games in 2024 has inspired a silly show about ‘Spraygun’ but its jibes are unfair
Everyone can have a bad day at the office. But for most …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMTuesday, August 19, 2025
Several portrayals of the royal’s tumultuous life take place in Edinburgh this month, each examining her relationship with Elizabeth I and challenging the narrative of two women at war
‘…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMSurprise finds at the festival include a sweet kids’ show about embracing your differences and a beautifully choreographed martial arts duet, in a year with work-in-progress energy
For sta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AM 
