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SFB's Paris season has works by Mark Morris, Christopher Wheeldon and Jerome Robbins: Morris's Maelstrom is still shockingly original using the simplest of meansIt wasn't so long ago that c…
From Charlie Chaplin to Bauhaus, SFB goes for variety with 16 one-act ballets for its Paris summer seasonIn London, we've got used to the summer diary being taken over by visiting Russians, …
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Raven Row, LondonRainer's dances seem as revolutionary as ever, performed alongside films and photographs in this evocative exhibitionWhen, in 1965, Yvonne Rainer wrote the opening lines of …
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As Nicolas Le Riche's departure from Paris Opera is streamed live online, it's time British ballet made the work of its greatest dancers accessible to everyoneNicolas Le Riche is billed to d…
Peacock theatre, LondonKristen McNally's new work Mad Women is surprising and sharp, but other new choreography here doesn't match the young company's ambitionI'm probably going to like any …
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Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonThe 55-year-old dancer pushes herself through a marathon of self-flagellating moves, yet for all her physical charisma, this dance lacks real logic and shapeIn th…
The dancing is superb but the ambiguity of Sol Leon and Paul Lightfoot's choreography can be challengingSadler's Wells, LondonIt's three years since Sol Leon and Paul Lightfoot succeeded Jir…
Innovators such as Akram Khan, Jasmin Vardimon and Matthew Bourne rewarded in 2015 Arts Council England settlement that brings dance a 9.4% funding rise, with boost to regional hubsEven for …
Rambert Building, LondonOften we're standing just inches from dancers in a proximity that creates a physical awareness impossible in the theatreMerce Cunningham invented the "event"…
Nederlands Dans Theater | New English Ballet Theatre: Tryst Devotion And Betrayal Continue reading...
Barbican, LondonThis captivating show uses smoke, mirrors and doll's house furniture to tell the story of an old woman's doomed first loveAt the heart of this captivating and uncategorisable…
The Belgian choreographer plays with themes of love and lust in a sinister, sensuous four-parterSidi Larbi Cherkaoui is principally a teller of stories and a juggler of ideas, and in most of…
The radical spirit of Merce Cunningham is felt in the arresting work at the festivalMy favourite work on the opening day of the 2014 Dance Biennale was Jérôme Bel's M0ndo Novo, …
Work that crosses the boundary between dance and gesture is the order of the day in Venice, with typically innovative work on show from Jérôme Bel and Saburo TeshigawaraDance is still a …
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: 4D | Charleroi Danses: Kiss & CryIn the suck-and-see spirit of the Wells Sampled season, Cherkaoui presents a programme of four short duets taken from four of his p…
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…
La Fille Mal Gardeé | Swan LakeFrederick Ashton's 1960 ballet is one of the most perfectly constructed narratives in the classical repertory. A reinvention of Jean Dauberval's 1789 pastoral…
The culture secretary, who says too many Britons are culturally disenfranchised, should be aware just how dance organisations are reaching out to their communitiesSajid Javid successfully ma…
Peacock, LondonThe material is recycled into routines that vary only marginally in response to their musicAny show performed by men who style themselves the Bad Boys of Dance would, you woul…
Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe arena format gives energy to the mob scenes, but English National Ballet's in-the-round tragedy isn't poetic enough See our gallery of images from ENB's Romeo an…
As Wendy Houstoun questions the commodification of dance, HeadSpaceDance and others show signs of a new spirit of curiosity and freedomA couple of weeks ago, when I was interviewing Wendy Ho…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThere is a beauty here that originates way below the body's surface, in the deepest stretch and pull of musclesRussell Maliphant's choreography has become a magnet for …
