1,004 stories by "Judith Mackrell"
The Royal Ballet: Giselle | Bartabas & Andrés MarinPepita's Giselle is the quintessential romantic classic, the story of a love affair that begins in the real world and continues beyond…
From postcards of ballerinas to digital shots where the performers barely look human, the art of snapping dancers has had a dramatic evolutionPhotography created a revolution in the recordin…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThis beguiling new work by the equestrian-dance maverick is dense with religious imagery and finds a wordless connection between man and beastDuring Easter week in sout…
Royal Opera House, LondonA bad performance can make Spartacus feel like the worst kind of choreography-by-numbers. Grigorovich's 1968 ballet delivers its monumental effects by repeating ever…
British Dance Edition | Ballet Black: Triple BillBritish Dance Edition is one of the major events in the industry year, showcasing a huge range of work by UK-based choreographers and compani…
Lilian Baylis Studio, LondonIn a powerful, poetic work, Marc Brew traces how he returned to performance and reinvented himself as a choreographer after being injured in an accidentMarc Brew …
Sadler's Wells, LondonAnne Teresa de Keersmaeker blends the Bard and Brian Eno in an abstract show, but despite some vivid choreography the results remain impenetrableMusic, rather than stor…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe choreographer yokes Hindu theology to theoretical physics, creating a vast world against the drumming and chanting of Nitin Sawhney's scoreIn 2002, the premiere of …
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas: Golden Hours (As You Like It) | Protein Dance: May Contain FoodIn the past, De Keersmaeker has taken music as her main source of inspiration, but in Golden …
Wilton's Music Hall, LondonBruce's adaptation of the epic tale has boogieing skeletons, an S&M disco queen and music from Mark Lanegan and MozartWith its dark monsters, fickle gods and s…
Akram Khan | Immortal TangoIt was back in 2002 that dancer and choreographer Akram Khan presented his first full-length work, Kaash, with designs by Anish Kapoor and a score by Nitin Sawhney…
De Nada Dance Theatre: Ham & Passion | TerraAfter setting up DeNada Dance Theatre in 2012, Spanish choreographer Carlos Pons Guerra fast-forwarded his way to a National Dance awards nomi…
Some thrilling footwork and extraordinary singing in Sara Baras's flamenco homage isn't enough to lift this bland production from its classic formatSo much of Sara Baras's dancing is all abo…
Royal Opera House, LondonThis Christopher Wheeldon programme includes the premiere of one-act ballet Strapless, whose scandalous heroine Madam X is all attitude and frocks Christopher Wheeld…
Birmingham Royal Ballet: The Dream & A Month In The Country | Flamenco Festival LondonBirmingham Royal Ballet joins in 2016's Shakespeare celebrations with seven Bard-inspired ballets th…
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: Como El Musguito | The Royal Ballet: Christopher Wheeldon Triple BillThis is the last work created by Pina Bausch before her sudden death in 2009, and it's…
Millepied's departure is a surprise: he was meant to revitalise a ballet institution, forcing it into the 21st centuryBenjamin Millepied's decision to quit his job as director of the Paris O…
Tanztheater Wuppertal's playful Como el Musguito… contrasts with the darkness of Bausch's early shows while Cunningham's later pieces hummed with a digital energy. Choreographers' final wo…
Mark Bruce Company: The Odyssey | Compagnie Yoann Bourgeois: Celui Qui Tombe (He Who Falls)In collaboration with the same team who worked on his darkly imagined Dracula, choreographer Mark B…
The Big Dance has been getting the general public moving for a decade. But its greatest achievement is the way we have woven dance into the fabric of our livesTwo of the performances that ha…
Kay's 5 Soldiers and Pite's Polaris are among the shows recognised in a strong year for women at the NDAs, but the distinctly white winners' list doesn't accurately represent the British dan…
Bolshoi Ballet: The Taming Of The Shrew | Sadler's Wells SampledJean-Christophe Maillot's production of the Shakespeare comedy " being broadcast from Russia to cinemas across the UK " is his…
Royal Opera House, LondonThe Royal's revival of Rhapsody turns from pretty to thrilling, while Two Pigeons takes off in playful, touching styleThere are sections of Rhapsody that are as bril…
BalletLORENT: Snow White | Mr WonderfulChoreographer Liv Lorent joins forces with poet Carol Ann Duffy for the second of their clever, and illuminating fairytale collaborations. For Snow Whi…
Coliseum, LondonThe junior soloist dances like an international star in this luminous, outrageous, orientalist rompIn Le Corsaire, ballet often veers closer to music hall than art. Its pirat…
