Zenaida Yanowsky and Liam Riddick take top dancer prizes, while Lez Brotherston wins outstanding contribution awardWe know that certain stories and certain archetypes have a strong hold on t…
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonIn Ben Duke and Lost Dog's smart, wryly subversive and sexy dance-theatre piece, Juliet and Romeo didn't die in that tomb. Worse … they grew old togetherShakes…
Royal Opera House, LondonThe ballerina brings an illusion of spontaneity to the choreography while mining a wealth of emotion from this gothic ghost story's fantastical plotFrancesca Hayward…
Tanztheater Wuppertal revive their founder's striking evocation of death, sex and corruption in the eternal cityWhen Pina Bausch's work was first shown in London in 1982 it changed the way w…
The Caribbeans who answered the call to save postwar Britain sparked a dance explosion. A new show relives those heady daysWhen the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in 1948, the Trinidadian…
From Chanel's Riviera bathers to Alexander McQueen's cross-dressing spywear, fashion has pushed dance to dazzling heightsAlexander McQueen always resisted the idea of working for dance. Even…
Coliseum, LondonEnglish National Ballet's La Sylphide is limited by one-note performances but Tamara Rojo dazzles in Kenneth MacMillan's magisterial Song of the Earth With its guileless stor…
Northern Ballet's Jane Eyre will make your heart leap, Pina Bausch's Roman dream returns to London and the Royal Ballet salute Macmillan and BernsteinPeter Wright's staging of the Romantic c…
Sadler's Wells, LondonUsing the second world war as a traumatic, ships-in-the-night backdrop is inspired and Bourne's dancers are once again on top of their game During the four years in whi…
Sgt Pepper strutted, Boris Charmatz gave us a buttock-scratching beauty and three men became Lady Macbeth " our critic picks the best dance of the year Continue reading...
Matthew Bourne brings back his Blitz-set Cinderella, Arthur Pita presents The Little Match Girl with cartoon robots and there are Nutcrackers aplentyMore to see: Theatre | Carols and concert…
Royal Opera House, LondonMarianela Nuñez and Natalia Osipova take turns playing one of classical dance's most unconventional heroines, in the Royal Ballet's opulent Arcadian fantasyWomen …
Black Swan stars Natalie Portman as a ballerina hitting the big time. How realistic is the movie? We asked the cream of British ballet to give their verdictsBlack Swan, directed by Darren Ar…
Coliseum, LondonIvan Putrov's male dance project can at times become a blur of homoerotic schmaltz, but at its best is very good indeedWhen Ivan Putrov launched his Men in Motion project two…
Sadler's Wells, LondonInspired by the onstage intensity of Nina Simone, the centrepiece of this triple bill blurs real life and performance to spectacular effectWhat does it mean when dancer…
Sadler's Wells, LondonInspired by his Philadelphia childhood and the film Boyz N the Hood, Abraham's vivid choreography evokes daily violence but also camaraderie and tendernessThe basketbal…
His political fury and upbeat moves make Kyle Abraham one of America's most original choreographers. He talks about systemic racism, his wrecked home town of Pittsburgh, creating an African …
Criticisms of the portrayal of rape in two recent Royal Ballet productions highlight a problem that is deeply embedded within the art formLove, grief, terror and desire: ballet can communica…
Royal Opera House, LondonSarah Lamb and Steven McRae soar through Haydn's symphony, Natalia Osipova is driven mad in Texas and a 20-strong cast prowl the stage in this mixed billIn 1973, whe…
Sadler's Wells, LondonA varied bill skipped from the gorgeous classicism of Michael Corder's Le Baiser de la fée to the exotic carnival of dancing animals in David Bintley's Still Life at t…
The Place, LondonThe dance duo's latest work, Andante, subjects the audience to sensory overload as the smoke and smells create a distancing hazeIt is very rare to experience something defin…
She shook up the male world of modern dance in the 1970s and never slowed down. The US choreographer talks about fending off flak, videoing her entire career " and why you should never ask h…
Premiered just before the revolution, Parade was Les Ballets Russes' most radical work. This dazzling update, with a robot politician and a silver wall-walker, captures its spirit " and the …
Royal Opera House, London A five-company tribute to Kenneth MacMillan continues with brave and brilliant stagings of two very different worksThis season's Kenneth MacMillan celebration conti…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe choreographer brings comedy, carnival and African dance to a hallowed classic, and ends up with something totally newBlack and white; good and evil; reality and ill…