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Dance

  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Review
    Swan Lake brings Busby Berkeley-like magic to the Royal Albert Hall — review

    Derek Deane’s in-the-round staging for English National Ballet features fine soloists and supersized ensembles

    A male and female ballet dancer perform together; he reaches out to her hand while she stands on one foot, her other leg extended behind her, one arm extended in front of her
  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    Review
    Eva Yerbabuena defies gravity in new flamenco show

    ‘Yerbagüena’ at Sadler’s Wells highlights the star’s remarkable skills

    A female flamenco dancer in a long dress performs with her arms raised, in front of a group of singers, a seated acoustic guitarist and a percussionist
  • Monday, 10 June, 2024
    Review
    Sarasota Ballet and Royal Ballet are outstanding in Frederick Ashton favourites and rarities — review

    The two companies were part of a month-long celebration at London’s Royal Opera House

    Five men in white bodysuits and silvery jackets hold a woman in the same costume aloft
  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    Interview
    Dancer Rocío Molina: ‘I’ve detached from flamenco many times, but I always return more in love’

    The Spaniard, known for her subversive takes on the genre, is performing one of her most exhilarating but unsettling works in London

    Flamenco dancer with arms outstretched and head thrown back
  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2024
    Review
    Marianela Núñez’s Paris Opera debut is a Giselle for the ages

    A rare visitor from the Royal Ballet proved invigorating while the last dance from the retiring Myriam Ould-Braham brought tenderness

    A ballerina in a bright white tutu delicately leaps with her feet crossed and her arms wide
  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2024
    Review
    Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo take Japan by storm

    The company’s mixture of camp satire and bravura technique arrived in Yokohama to loud applause

    A man dressed as a female classical ballet dancer on stage in traditional white tutu
  • Sunday, 26 May, 2024
    English National Ballet heads a summer flock of Swan Lakes to London

    The company’s big-corps version at the Albert Hall adds to a rich mix of alternatives from Georgia, China and the Royal Ballet

    Multiple exposures of ballerina dancing
  • Tuesday, 7 May, 2024
    Review
    The Winter’s Tale — Christopher Wheeldon’s ballet breathes life into the story’s passions

    The Royal Ballet’s staging features a splendid cast who get their teeth into chewy roles

    A male dancer kneels before a female dancer who is wearing a long gown, standing on one foot on pointe, an arm and a leg extended, a hand resting on the man’s shoulder
  • Friday, 3 May, 2024
    Review
    New York City Ballet review — athleticism and accomplishment in two world premieres

    Spring gala at Lincoln Center featured new works by Justin Peck and Amy Hall Garner

    Two male dancers and a female dancer jump with their feet tucked in and their arms outstretched
  • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
    Review
    Boy Blue’s hip-hop dancers are masters of time and space

    The premiere of ‘Cycles’ at London’s Barbican lacked shape but not spectacle

    A complex arrangement of four dancers in upmarket streetwear
  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
    Review
    The Sleeping Beauty, Sadler’s Wells — soloists shine in classic production

    A revival in London of Peter Wright’s tasteful Birmingham Royal Ballet version is always welcome

    A ballerina with a joyful expression leaps with arms and legs outstretched while a male ballet dancer looks on, smiling
  • Monday, 22 April, 2024
    Review
    Hung Dance, London review — a man, a woman and a giant feather

    The Taipei company performed a tender, combative duet as part of the Coronet Theatre’s Taiwan Festival

    A male and female dancer perform; the woman has a very long feather as a headdress, the tip of which is touching the man’s neck; he recoils
  • Monday, 22 April, 2024
    HTSI
    Cowboy culture is everywhere – and it’s way more inclusive

    Inside the line dancing revival

    Line dancing at Manchester Pride in August 1995
  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
    Interview
    Choreographer Cathy Marston: ‘The idea of an unreliable narrator is really interesting’

    Her new Ballett Zürich production based on Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement brings a tricksy narrative to the stage

    A woman in a dance studio
  • Tuesday, 16 April, 2024
    Review
    Mehek, Sadler’s Wells — a passionate May-December dance-romance

    In the work’s London premiere, Aakash Odedra and Aditi Mangaldas created a compelling ecstasy of love found and lost

    A male dancer lies on his front looking down at a female dancer who lies on her back, looking up at him; both wear shimmering costumes
  • Friday, 12 April, 2024
    Review
    Elixir, Sadler’s Wells — festival stars older dancers and a tortoise after a strawberry

    Louise Lecavalier was mesmerising even if other items depended on nostalgia

    One woman stands in front of another against a red background
  • Saturday, 6 April, 2024
    InterviewMusic
    Guitarist Paco Peña on flamenco, avoiding the limelight and Jimi Hendrix

    The 81-year-old found fame in London’s Swinging Sixties celebrating his ancient art form

    A man playing a guitar
  • Tuesday, 2 April, 2024
    Review
    English National Ballet’s Carmen is sharp but sexless

    Choreographer Johan Inger’s version, performed at London’s Sadler’s Wells, shifts the story out of its steamy setting

    A dark-clad male dancer stands and holds up a female dancer wearing a short frilly red dress, her head tipped back and legs kicking; behind them, other dancers perform movements
  • Monday, 25 March, 2024
    Review
    Frankenstein — dancer Jonathan Goddard is one of the great monsters

    Choreographer Mark Bruce follows ‘Dracula’ with another horror that suggests a body at war with itself

    A muscly man with seams painted over his joints looks curiously into a mirror
  • Monday, 25 March, 2024
    Review
    Crystal Pite’s Assembly Hall — masterly dancing with a medieval twist

    The choreographer flooded the Sadler’s Wells stage with constant, inventive movement

    A close-up image shows a woman’s head facing sideways; behind her is a figure in a suit of medieval-style armour, placing one armour-gloved hand on the woman’s head
  • Thursday, 21 March, 2024
    Review
    Grief, bliss and terror in the Royal Ballet’s Kenneth MacMillan retrospective

    A strong cast starring Lauren Cuthbertson and Vadim Muntagirov demonstrated how the choreographer rewrote dance’s rules

    A man in a loincloth lifts a woman in a white tutu
  • Friday, 8 March, 2024
    Review
    New York City Ballet makes a long-awaited return to London at Sadler’s Wells — review

    Plus: five stars for Marianela Nuñez and Vadim Muntagirov in the Royal Ballet’s Swan Lake

    A group of male and female dancers in brightly coloured clothing jump and hold their hands above their heads
  • Friday, 1 March, 2024
    Review
    Dimitris Papaioannou, Sadler’s Wells review — little dance but octopuses and nudity to spare

    ‘Ink’ involves a silicone foetus, a goldfish bowl and a garden sprinkler

    A man stands in a dark environment wearing a soaking-wet shirt and trousers; a jet of water is spraying in front of him
  • Thursday, 29 February, 2024
    Choreographer Wayne McGregor unites dance, art and AI in his new spectacle

    ‘A Body for Harnasie’ turns a little-known 20th-century ballet into a multimedia fantasia for today

  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    HTSI
    When groove is in the art

    Eight artists putting dance in the frame

    Factual Actual II, 2020, by Florence Peake
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