Thursday, May 14, 2026
Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, LondonThe first UK visit for the company showcases the dancers’ elegance and versatility across three pieces of varying impactThis small Oklahoman dance…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:10PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 10, 2026
As the pioneering BalletBoyz company celebrates its 25th anniversary and Billy Elliott returns to the stage, the male dance landscape appears transformed from where it was at the turn of the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:25AM[SHARE]Friday, May 8, 2026
Sadler’s Wells East, LondonCourtney Deyn and Jacob Samuel conjure a bleak world of excess, ritual and power in a visually striking but limited piece of dance-theatreIt’s like the afterma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 7, 2026
Sadler’s Wells, LondonMen in tutus and pointe shoes loving and parodying their art form never ages; it’s both simple and very sophisticatedDepending on how you look at it, drag ballet tr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:25AM[SHARE]Friday, May 1, 2026
Leicester CathedralPart of the Let’s Dance International Frontiers festival, Compagnie Kaméléonite’s piece about the climate crisis features two transfixing performersIn the once clear…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:56AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 30, 2026
Royal Festival Hall, LondonFeaturing music that inspired the designer, this show brings together Le Gateau Chocolat, dancers in body stockings and a formal orchestra to mild effectThe small …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30PM[SHARE]Monday, April 27, 2026
Sadler’s Wells East, LondonAt 67, the mercurial Lecavalier is in the I’ll-do-whatever-I-want phase of her career, choreographing solos that are worlds away from cosy retirementLouise Lec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:55AM[SHARE]Monday, April 20, 2026
Royal Opera House, LondonIncredible physical facility is married to expressive lyricism in this triple bill by the Royal Ballet's ever adventurous resident choreographer. You never know what…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 19, 2026
Sadler's Wells, LondonTap, waacking, jookin', footwork and jit are among the traditional, street and club styles that come together as Michelle Dorrance showcases a startling array of forms …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]Monday, April 13, 2026
The Place, London This double bill from choreographers James Pett and Travis Clausen-Knight features fluent steps, tension and expression, but their expressed human connection to an AI-drive…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 11, 2026
Sadler's Wells, LondonThis parody of courting rituals brings back its inaugural dancers 48 years on " ghosting their onstage choreography with footage of their younger selves, for a moving l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 31, 2026
London ColiseumSuperbly cast, the dancer brings stratospheric levels of charisma to a rather pedestrian show driven by Cyndi Lauper's songs
Johannes Radebe (AKA Jojo from Strictly) is a born…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 26, 2026
Sadler's Wells, LondonKameron N Saunders's ambitious sci-fi-coded fable is paired with a showcase of Crystal Pite's mastery in contrasting order with human messiness
The headline news here i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Leeds Grand theatre Annabelle Lopez Ochoa's choreography keeps a tight hold on the narrative and the erotically charged pas de deux between the lovers packs real heat
Northern Ballet's new s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AM[SHARE]Sadler's Wells East, LondonRussell Maliphant Dance Company's arresting evening of three solos includes a spiritual offering performed by the choreographer himself
Watching Daniel Proietto da…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AM[SHARE]Friday, March 6, 2026
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London Adam Linder delivers a zingy riff on Balanchine's Jewels while Marco da Silva Ferreira masses a raucous party crowd
In 2008 Adam Linder won the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PM[SHARE]The Canadian dance director has created a dazzling body of work that tackles human relationships and the big questions of our times. She talks through pivotal moments in her career
There are…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 1, 2026
York Theatre RoyalFrom an ode to the pure goodness of the dancefloor to clapping rhythms, playful duets and retro classics
Marcus Jarrell Willis wants us to rewind. Back to the good old days…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 26, 2026
Spurred on by a vision of the Shakers' founding leader, Celia Rowlson-Hall masterminded the whirl of movement in Mona Fastvold's feverish film
'I'll tell you something I've not told anyone,"…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Dancer and artistic director of English National Ballet who championed contemporary choreographers
"I didn't start dancing out of burning desire for it. I did it because I was a well-behaved…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 22, 2026
Derby theatreConrad Murray's family musical is serious about its commitment to community " but completely lacks dramatic thrust
This is not the first time the tale of the Pied Piper has had …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 12, 2026
Sadler's Wells East, LondonThe all-male French troupe Chicos Mambo mix parody and pointework in a fast-paced comic celebration of dance's high art and sillier side
When the curtain goes up h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42PM[SHARE]The Corn Exchange, NewburyThere are quirky, characterful dances, bodies melting together and understated charisma in this story of a famed 1920s lesbian club
Le Monocle was a famed lesbian c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 31, 2026
The Place, LondonCharlotte Mooney and Alex Harvey deliver a mesmerising and intimate ode to their performing lives together
Charlotte Mooney and Alex Harvey fell in love 24 years ago when th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM[SHARE]Friday, January 30, 2026
Glen Tetley's fantastical ballet, set to an atonal Schoenberg score, is finally returning to Covent Garden. Dancers Marcelino Sambé and Joshua Junker discuss how they came under its spell
M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Linbury theatre, LondonFull of postcard moments, Taylor's choreography harks back to a more straightforward, analogue age " and is all the better for that
Paul Taylor is not a choreographer …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 27, 2026
She has based ballets on Frida Kahlo, Coco Chanel and Eva Perón. So Annabelle Lopez Ochoa was well placed to take on the passionate, complicated figure of Anne Lister
A couple dance acros…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:31PM[SHARE]Monday, January 26, 2026
The Place, LondonSadiq Ali's intimate dance piece follows a woman with an HIV diagnosis at a time when it was misunderstood and stigmatised
In the programme note for Tell Me, its creator Sa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Linbury theatre, LondonThese gems, old and new, include an intense revival of Martha Graham's Deep Song and a new piece by Christopher Bruce set to Leonard Cohen songs
Wow, the energy in a s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Monday, January 19, 2026
She started out performing in her living room, charging £1.50 a ticket. Now, having blazed through Love Island and silenced her Strictly haters, the Welsh sensation is really hitting the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:02AM[SHARE]Friday, January 9, 2026
Pioneering Dutch choreographer who fused classical and modern ballet styles into stripped back movement
The Dutch choreographer Hans van Manen, who has died aged 93, was a pioneering and pro…
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