Royal Opera House, LondonA revelatory tribute to Leonard Bernstein features designs by Erdem and a set by Edmund de Waal, with the music of Chichester Psalms and SerenadeThere's a kinetic ki…
Sadler's Wells, LondonDisabled and non-disabled performers tackle political correctness and prejudice with mischievous humourIt's always great to witness the buzz that choreographers get fro…
Sadler's Wells, LondonCrystal Pite, Emily Molnar and Sharon Eyal deliver a triple bill of new works that range from hazardous to poignantTamara Rojo's all-female programme She Said was part …
Wilton's Music Hall, LondonFrom gibbering witches to cascading horror, this darkly hectic dance adaptation is beautifully executedAs the choreographer of Dracula, The Odyssey and other dark …
Hackney Showroom, LondonSally Marie's highly physical work explores women's experience of their bodies with raunchy energy, tenderness and rage, but communicates less than it couldAs the #Me…
When the iconoclastic choreographer reinvented herself as a film-maker at the turn of the 70s, she opened up a new world of possibilities for her artWhen Yvonne Rainer made the switch from c…
Zenaida Yanowsky and Liam Riddick take top dancer prizes, while Lez Brotherston wins outstanding contribution awardWe know that certain stories and certain archetypes have a strong hold on t…
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonIn Ben Duke and Lost Dog's smart, wryly subversive and sexy dance-theatre piece, Juliet and Romeo didn't die in that tomb. Worse … they grew old togetherShakes…
Royal Opera House, LondonThe ballerina brings an illusion of spontaneity to the choreography while mining a wealth of emotion from this gothic ghost story's fantastical plotFrancesca Hayward…
Tanztheater Wuppertal revive their founder's striking evocation of death, sex and corruption in the eternal cityWhen Pina Bausch's work was first shown in London in 1982 it changed the way w…
The Caribbeans who answered the call to save postwar Britain sparked a dance explosion. A new show relives those heady daysWhen the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in 1948, the Trinidadian…
From Chanel's Riviera bathers to Alexander McQueen's cross-dressing spywear, fashion has pushed dance to dazzling heightsAlexander McQueen always resisted the idea of working for dance. Even…
Coliseum, LondonEnglish National Ballet's La Sylphide is limited by one-note performances but Tamara Rojo dazzles in Kenneth MacMillan's magisterial Song of the Earth With its guileless stor…
Northern Ballet's Jane Eyre will make your heart leap, Pina Bausch's Roman dream returns to London and the Royal Ballet salute Macmillan and BernsteinPeter Wright's staging of the Romantic c…
Sadler's Wells, LondonUsing the second world war as a traumatic, ships-in-the-night backdrop is inspired and Bourne's dancers are once again on top of their game During the four years in whi…
Sgt Pepper strutted, Boris Charmatz gave us a buttock-scratching beauty and three men became Lady Macbeth " our critic picks the best dance of the year Continue reading...
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Matthew Bourne brings back his Blitz-set Cinderella, Arthur Pita presents The Little Match Girl with cartoon robots and there are Nutcrackers aplentyMore to see: Theatre | Carols and concert…
Royal Opera House, LondonMarianela Nuñez and Natalia Osipova take turns playing one of classical dance's most unconventional heroines, in the Royal Ballet's opulent Arcadian fantasyWomen …
From Malian band Songhoy Blues to the Natural History Museum's show about venomous beasts, here is our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance in the next seven days…
Black Swan stars Natalie Portman as a ballerina hitting the big time. How realistic is the movie? We asked the cream of British ballet to give their verdictsBlack Swan, directed by Darren Ar…
Coliseum, LondonIvan Putrov's male dance project can at times become a blur of homoerotic schmaltz, but at its best is very good indeedWhen Ivan Putrov launched his Men in Motion project two…
Sadler's Wells, LondonInspired by the onstage intensity of Nina Simone, the centrepiece of this triple bill blurs real life and performance to spectacular effectWhat does it mean when dancer…
Sadler's Wells, LondonInspired by his Philadelphia childhood and the film Boyz N the Hood, Abraham's vivid choreography evokes daily violence but also camaraderie and tendernessThe basketbal…