Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Dancers are sharing their skills online as venues are shut due to the coronavirus. Our critic stepped up to test one out
The core of a ballet dancer's life is daily class. Whether it's a chi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 12, 2020
While Richard Alston's company hang up their dance shoes, archivists and choreographers are grasping at ways to immortalise an inherently slippery art form
Earlier this month, Richard Alston…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM[SHARE]Monday, March 9, 2020
A superb documentary immerses you in the choreographer's creations and shows off his own wild and weightless performances
Given the gift of time travel, you'd have to drop in on the early co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 8, 2020
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe company's final outing after 25 years ran through some of Alston's most dynamic newer works, with performances ranging from the spellbinding to the effortless
To wa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 27, 2020
Sadler's Wells, London Cheng Tsung-lung's 13 Tongues circles and flows, while Lin Hwai-min's Dust is a slow slide into the dark
Forty-seven years ago, a man who knew next to nothing about ch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 23, 2020
Until her death in a freak accident, the 'radical and shocking' Isadora Duncan transformed dance. Now her feminist free spirit struts the stage again
'You'll have to excuse me, I'm just tryi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM[SHARE]Friday, February 21, 2020
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe English National Ballet's luminous lead principal here creates her own show, ranging from Frederick Ashton to Arvo Pärt and two superb short films
It's impossible …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 20, 2020
Peacock theatre, London A compelling cast pour their hearts into Kate Prince's jukebox tale of civil war, trafficking and three siblings separated as refugees
A hip-hop dance show set to the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Royal Opera House, LondonCathy Marston's first main stage commission for the Royal Ballet translates Du Pré's lyrical presence on the podium into dance, capturing her deep love affair with …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Friday, February 14, 2020
Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, London The proximity to the action in this show highlights the finesse and strength of the Havana troupe
Only a few months since Acosta Danza were last in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 13, 2020
Sadler's Wells, LondonSet to Bartók's opera, the bloody myth becomes a bleak battle of the sexes where we can never quite tell right from wrong
Pina Bausch was of the "hell is other peopl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03PM[SHARE]Friday, February 7, 2020
New artistic director aims to attract younger audiences and promises more than 20,000 tickets for £20 or less as company reveals 2020 programme
Carlos Acosta has pledged to transform Birm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 6, 2020
Sadler's Wells, LondonMichael Keegan-Dolan's new dance work is steeped in the landscape and culture of the Dingle Peninsula
It starts out like a sinister cult: the mask of a black ram, a cur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Phoenix Dance Theatre's show looks back to the Zong slave ship massacre and the KÄlÄ PÄnÄ« prison torture. Three choreographers explain how they created it together
How many peopl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 1, 2020
From The Lighthouse to The Haystack, here's our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 25, 2020
From The Personal History of David Copperfield to Madonna, here's our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36PM[SHARE]Friday, January 24, 2020
Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, LondonThis experiment by film-maker Kibwe Tavares and choreographer Sharon Eyal brims with talent but is frustrating
Two young women in heavy robes and el…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Jacksons Lane, LondonIn this acrobatic theatre show, the Berlin circus trio Still Hungry juggle roles and wrestle with all the anxieties and expectations that come with child-rearing
A disc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Monday, January 20, 2020
From the soulful Jemima Brown to BBC Young Dancer champ Nafisah Baba, these dynamos have a stellar year ahead
This Northern Irish dancer starts the year nominated for two Critics Circle danc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Royal Opera House, LondonThe Russian ballerina is exhilarating to watch in John Cranko's 1965 take on Pushkin's novel, partnered by Reece Clarke in the title role
There are few dancers who l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03AM[SHARE]Friday, January 17, 2020
From Waves to Beat Horizon, here's our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 16, 2020
Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe Canadian company's colourful Mexican-flavoured show is full of heart-stopping skill, dreamy lyricism and visual whimsy
Many contemporary circus groups sell thems…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 15, 2020
The Pit, LondonFleur Elise Noble's fantasy show at the London international mime festival is highly original and unsettling
The London international mime festival (43 years old and stronger …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AM[SHARE]Friday, January 10, 2020
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonAerial theatre company Ockham's Razor deftly and poignantly explore age and innocence
There is a wonderful warmth in the work of aerial theatre company Ockham's R…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 9, 2020
Historical ballets are rife with offensive colonial politics but choreographers and dancers are finding creative ways to change them for today's audiences
A 19th-century worldview informs mu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PM[SHARE]Coliseum, LondonWhile its story of slavery and exotica is dubious, ENB's virtuoso dancers sparkle as much as the fake jewels
Perhaps because ballet as an art form is so unreal, it's easy to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM[SHARE]Monday, January 6, 2020
Film reviewers sank their claws into Cats, but is it really so awful? Our stage reviewers steeled themselves for the caterwauling ... but ended up quite enjoying it
It can be very pleasurab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 2, 2020
Tom Stoppard gets personal, Cush Jumbo does Hamlet, Hollywood names bring everything from tragedy to comedy … plus dance confronts shame and there's standup open heart surgery Continue rea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AM[SHARE]Friday, December 27, 2019
As karaoke versions of musicals take off, we chat to punters at two West End shows " strictly during the interval, of course " to gauge opinion on audience participation
'It'll have them sin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AM[SHARE]From Jojo Rabbit to Craig David, here's our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 22, 2019
Royal Festival Hall, London
In a culture of special effects, it is the moments of connection, creativity and wonder that matter
Circus 1903 " in pictures
Playing its second year as an altern…
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