Sunday, August 17, 2025
Summerhall, EdinburghWe're just sensory-seeking animals, says choreographer Léa Tirabasso, with a high-energy hour performed by six impressive dancers
The surrealist worlds of choreographer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32PM[SHARE]Festival theatre, EdinburghMary births a balloon and Elizabeth I towers on stilts in Sophie Laplane and James Bonas's production about the queens' distant relationship
The second half of thi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 16, 2025
Assembly Hall, EdinburghAustralian circus act Gravity and Other Myths allow the audience an up-close insight into how they mastered their extraordinary craft
This may be the ideal festival s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 10, 2025
Underbelly Circus Hub on the Meadows, EdinburghBrisbane's Circa are consummate pros, achieving acrobatic feats edged with animal instincts
Some circus shows start with relatively simple tric…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 9, 2025
Old College Quad, EdinburghLebanese choreographer Omar Rajeh's outdoor dance fizzes with communal energy but its overstuffed concept blunts its political impact
What you might not have expec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 2, 2025
Everyone from Harry Styles to Selena Gomez has been captivated by the French choreographer's stunning trampoline performance. Now he's bringing a new work to the UK, featuring a revolving mi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 20, 2025
Tharp picked up a Golden Lion award for her experimental and accessible choreography, while Carolina Bianchi won a Silver Lion for her fearless exploration of sexual assault
'Do you know how…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PM[SHARE]Monday, July 14, 2025
A new season at London's Southbank Centre is inspired by Emma Warren's book Dance Your Way Home, about the potency of communal movement. She and other artists involved explain why the dancef…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 10, 2025
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonNew York company Nature Theater of Oklahoma's take on the US president is an ideas-packed, dance-adjacent comedy inspiring whoops and walkouts
Is this show genius…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 3, 2025
Emerald theatre, LondonA regal Von Teese oversees this uninspiring mix of chandelier-swinging cabaret, circus and dance featuring the Steps singer as a saloon owner with a string of exes
Som…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06PM[SHARE]Sadler's Wells East, London Taking rests when required, Candoco's integrated company capture the paradox of dancefloor abandonment
Choreographer Dan Daw and the dancers from Candoco are cele…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 26, 2025
Get ready for gravity-defying acrobats, electrically stimulated dancers and a punk ballet take on Mary, Queen of Scots
The Quebec company We All Fall Down got good word-of-mouth at last year…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AM[SHARE]Sadler's Wells, LondonPete Townshend's tragic story of teenage angst returns to the stage in a visceral dance production full of the original's swagger and bravado
The Quadrophenia era might…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Sadler's Wells East, London Circling between quiet sparse scenes and amazing bursts of movement, this is an intense hour from an artist really hitting his stride
Sometimes choreographers use…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM[SHARE]Friday, June 20, 2025
Musician John Grant was blown away by Christopher Isherwood's 1964 novel, finding deep resonances in its tale of gay love and loss. Now, he's put songs to choreographer Jonathan Watkins's ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AM[SHARE]Friday, June 13, 2025
From Oklahoma! and Singin' in the Rain to The Big Lebowski and Maestro, these showstoppers give a blissful hit of dance. A Rodgers and Hammerstein triple bill at Regent's Park Open Air theat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AM[SHARE]Friday, June 6, 2025
The Channel Islands were dubbed 'the witch-hunting capital of Atlantic Europe'. Even just talking to a cat could get you hanged, strangled or burned. We go behind the scenes of an outdoor da…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]The Place, London The Yorkshire-born dance artist concludes his social historical trilogy on the Thatcher era by celebrating resistance to homophobia
Gary Clarke grew up in a Yorkshire minin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 5, 2025
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonThe dance-theatre duo embody people, flora and fauna, questioning what 'norms' in society and nature really mean
It was the comment on Katy Perry's space flight …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Sadler's Wells, LondonIt may seem a little tame compared to some offerings at this year's Flamenco festival but this is an elegant display of traditional style
The most compelling parts of M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe Spanish dancer's latest show with his all-male company is an eruption of pleasure, ego and neediness that is full of fantastic chemistry
It was Manuel Liñán's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM[SHARE]Friday, May 23, 2025
Lilian Baylis studio, Sadler's Wells, LondonThe choreographer's unapologetic depiction of female instincts fills a suburban living room with surreal scenes of suppressed sexuality and rage
A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 22, 2025
It may be set 60 years ago, but a new ballet version of The Who's rock opera asks questions about youth, society and masculinity that still resonate " and it brought its original creator to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe Canadian company are in total control in Crystal Pite's Frontier, while Johan Inger's Passing has colour and humour yet is overstretched
In brief, this double bill …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Monday, May 12, 2025
It started out as a dance for men who risked arrest for indecency " and grew into a legs-flying, bloomers-revealing sensation. We go behind the scenes at Bottoms, a thrilling new show about …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 11, 2025
Sadler's Wells, LondonWith an amazing sense of pure movement, Doherty's bold, distinctive work takes the story of her great-great-grandfather beyond magic realism
Here we are in an abattoir …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 8, 2025
The Place, LondonThis year's festival launches with a multi-layered exploration of human connection from Korea National Contemporary Dance Company
K-pop, K-drama, K-beauty: South Korean cult…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London The choreographer pairs the semi-improvised score with similarly loose structures that reflect on collective action and identi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 22, 2025
As she unveils The Trembling Forest with an ensemble of clay-covered performers, the great dance disruptor looks back on decades of radical and autobiographical shows
Maybe it's inevitable b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 20, 2025
★★★☆☆ / ★★★★☆Sadler's Wells East, LondonBalletLorent stages two dance-theatre versions of the fairytale " one for all the family, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 3, 2025
Peacock theatre, London Gleefully exploding traditional funeral rites, Thisispopbaby deploy styles from stepdance to pole dance to upend expectations of Irish culture
Yo…
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