Sunday, September 4, 2011
Merce Cunningham's legacy tour, a triple treat from the Birmingham Royal Ballet and a cross-dressing comedyAkram Khan Company: DeshChoreographer Akram Khan may perform less than he used to, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PMThursday, August 11, 2011
From 1950s Beijing to this year's Edinburgh festival, China's national ballet braved revolution and reforms to become a leading presence on the world stageIn shortThe National Ballet of Chin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:28PMMonday, August 8, 2011
Coliseum, LondonTango is a dance of grace and danger, a dance that embodies desire in its web of glances, advances and evasions, a dance that inspires deep devotion from its followers – a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:17PMFriday, July 29, 2011
Coliseum, LondonRecently, Carlos Acosta has been branching out from ballet superstardom. Last year he presented Premieres, a rather misjudged programme of short modern ballets for himself an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:29PMFriday, July 22, 2011
Barbican, LondonThe Brisbane-based Circa troupe was founded in 1987, but its current identity comes courtesy of director Yaron Lifschitz, who took over in 2004. A trained theatre director wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:08AMThursday, July 14, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonHofesh Shechter rocks. No, really. The Israeli-born choreographer and composer was once in a rock group – and in Political Mother, more than any other piece, it shows…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:16PMMonday, July 11, 2011
From Hollywood musicals to a Pink Floyd ballet, Roland Petit's choreography raised the bar – and hemlines – of dance for everTwo enduring loves span the life of French choreographer Rola…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10AMTuesday, June 21, 2011
Linbury Studio Theatre, LondonThere's a revolving-door feel to Cocteau Voices, a double bill of dance and opera that spins around the same themes – desire, absence, delusion – from two c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:10PMMonday, June 20, 2011
O2 Arena, London"Ballet rocks!" is a phrase increasingly bandied about by enthusiastic dance fans. Ballet has indeed been bursting its opera-house laces, with high-profile appearances in a K…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:45PMSunday, June 19, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonYou don't look for coherence in the works of Japanese choreographer Saburo Teshigawara, you go to experience them. Mirror and Music (2009) is characteristic: a loose-kn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:56PMWednesday, June 15, 2011
Choreographer and performer whose troupe dance along the edge of physical expression, forging a sensory style all their ownIn shortHis company's name means "crow", but Saburo Teshigawara is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:59AMTuesday, May 24, 2011
A pillar of modern choreography, the US octogenarian once turned George W Bush's walk into a danceIn short Although neither a pioneer nor a radical of American modern dance, Paul Taylor is s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:20PMSunday, May 8, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonThey make an improbable pair – María Pagés an earthy flamenco dancer, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui a contemporary dancer, as supple as a sapling. But they have one gift in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:15PMWednesday, May 4, 2011
This Dutch choreographer's distinctive personal style mixes formal austerity and glassy elegance with erotic chargeIn shortDutch choreographer Hans van Manen has been called the Mondrian of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:22AMMonday, May 2, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonFor one weekend each spring, Sadler's Wells is transformed. Its foyers throb with sound and throng with young people, and on every floor you come across eager displays …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:05PMWednesday, April 20, 2011
It Needs Horses should never have galloped away with the audience vote, still less the UK's biggest choreography prize. Maybe it's time for AV?So there I was the other night, at the finals o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:43PMTuesday, April 19, 2011
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonIt's 20 years since choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh founded her own company. Introducing a special anniversary programme, Southbank Centre head Jude Kelly rightly…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:35PMMonday, April 18, 2011
Sadler's Wells, London★★/★★★★A season of four early works by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has shown that right from the beginning she was a tenaciously single-minded choreogra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMTuesday, March 22, 2011
The Place, LondonAn intrepid and spirited company, Scottish Dance Theatre has regularly commissioned choreographers previously unknown in the UK; their current double bill is by two new Amer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:15PMThursday, March 10, 2011
The Place, LondonBawren Tavaziva's Double Take came with a prologue: local schoolchildren performing scenes they had developed in workshops. This warm-up act pointed up the strengths and wea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:39PMWednesday, March 9, 2011
Javier de Frutos revels in the raw and the provocative but his new collaboration with Pet Shop Boys is for the familyIn shortA maverick, an iconoclast and a heretic, Javier de Frutos is an i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:17AMSunday, March 6, 2011
Whitechapel Gallery, LondonThe Whitechapel Gallery invited three very different sets of dance artists to "animate" Shadow Spans, their long-standing gallery installation by Claire Barclay. F…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:07PMSunday, February 13, 2011
Arts Depot, LondonMichael Nunn and William Trevitt, aka the Balletboyz, have always been media-savvy. Having stopped dancing, they have ditched their cheeky double act, recruited nine young …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:15PMTuesday, February 1, 2011
A crossover pioneer, this American choreographer melds classical ballet with modern, jazz, ballroom and even aerobics in an energetic mix that impresses, if not always endearsIn shortTwyla T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:43AMSunday, January 16, 2011
Nottingham ArenaStrictly Come Dancing Live is exactly as described: the television show performed on stage. Celebrities from the 2010 season, plus old-timers Ricky Whittle and Colin Jackson,…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48PMFriday, January 7, 2011
We've heard lots about Natalie Portman's travails as a fictional prima ballerina in Darren Aronofsky's film, but she's just the latest in a long line of doomed cinematic dancersWARNING: cont…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:38AMThursday, January 6, 2011
Coliseum, LondonRudolf Nureyev's version of Romeo and Juliet – restaged by English National Ballet, the company for which it was first created in 1977 – reads like a cross between Shakes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:01PMFriday, December 24, 2010
Yvonne Rainer and her works are uncompromising, challenging and highly influential. But she won't be guesting on X FactorIn shortAn artist who is anti-art, an activist who is also an aesthet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMTuesday, December 14, 2010
Linbury Studio, LondonFirst shown as a studio performance in summer 2008, William Tuckett's Faeries has been revised as a Christmas children's show for the stage, with some key changes: it's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:31PMTuesday, November 9, 2010
Bill T Jones has spent his dance career making the personal political provoking both acclaim and controversy along the way Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM 
