1,004 stories by "Judith Mackrell"
CandoCo | Flamenco FestivalCandoCo, On tourSince its launch in 1991, CandoCo has combined the talents of differently abled dancers and a repertory featuring some of the most interesting cho…
Sadler's Wells, LondonTaiwanese rice fields might seem like too narrow a subject for a full-length dance work, but Lin Hwai-min gives it an elemental scopeBack in the 1970s, Lin Hwai-min eme…
Sadler's Wells, LondonTaiwanese rice fields might seem like too narrow a subject for a full-length dance work, but Lin Hwai-min gives it an elemental scopeBack in the 1970s, Lin Hwai-min eme…
Linbury Studio theatre, LondonPita's rich retelling of A Midsummer Night's Dream is featured alongside fine commissions from Martin Lawrance and Christopher MarneyArthur Pita and a tutu ball…
Readers look back on the highlights of the Place's season on emerging choreographersThe last edition of Your move featured the final batch of reviews from Resolution! and a list of the works…
Ballet Black | Scottish Dance TheatreBallet Black, LondonSince it was launched in 2001, Ballet Black has developed an exceptionally ambitious repertory. Headlining the company's latest tripl…
As Channel 4's Big Ballet shows, big is often better. But dance keeps struggling with unhealthy stereotypes and weighty issues' Gillian Lynne and Beryl Grey on how dancers should be pushed t…
Are you keeping up with the emerging choreographers at the Place? Let us know what dance dates are in your diaryOn the last edition of Your move, choreographers Yolande Yorke-Edgell and 16-y…
Beryl Grey and Gillian Lynne say that dancers nowadays are too sheltered from risk but works such as Wayne McGregor's Tetractys prove otherwiseDuring last Saturday's matinee performance of W…
Royal Opera House, LondonWayne McGregor's new meditation on classical music's master of mathematics is Bach by numbersWayne McGregor is one of the most intellectually curious of dance-makers…
Sadler's Wells, LondonPina Bausch's classic collage of dance, spoken monologue and theatrical vignette is shot through with sadness, but also delicious comedy' Performing Pina Bausch's 1980 …
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: 1980 | Luca Silvestrini's Protein: Border TalesTanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: 1980, LondonWhen Pina Bausch's company first performed the brilliant, emo…
Bridewell theatre, LondonThere is a bubbly energy and sassy fizz to Drew McOnie's booze-soaked show. But you have to swallow a lot before the lines between modern dance and musical theatre b…
Six artistic directors were asked which ballets are due a rest, which we should rescue and which are classics of the futureEveryone acknowledges that ballet is stuck with an intractable shor…
Lighting designers used to be faceless backstage figures. Now the hottest choreographers can't work without them. Meet the new wave of trailblazersLucy Carter has strong feelings about the p…
The Lowry, SalfordDavid Bintley's choreography for Benjamin Britten's beautiful ballet score stumbles at key momentsIt's more than 50 years since Benjamin Britten composed his mysterious and…
Royal Ballet: Triple Bill | Birmingham Royal Ballet: Prince Of The PagodasRoyal Ballet: Triple Bill, LondonAfter Raven Girl, Wayne McGregor's controversial first attempt to create a narrativ…
From a Little Mermaid DVD to Resolution!, readers share what filled their dance diaries last week. What shows do you have booked for February?On last week's Your move, ID6404704 posted a lin…
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, London The young dancers show tremendous focus in a piece that is riotous, joyous and sinisterBoris Charmatz's work lies somewhere between dance, installation and conceptual …
Winners' list includes Russell Maliphant, Christopher Wheeldon and Mikhailovsky Ballet. What do you make of the choices?The winners of this year's Critics' Circle National Dance awards were …
Boris Charmatz/Musée De La Danse: Enfant | Ivan Putrov's Men In MotionBoris Charmatz/Musée De La Danse: Enfant, LondonBoris Charmatz has been one of dance's most entertainingly subversive …
The new Le Corsaire is a 'ballet to enjoy rather than think about', and young writers in the Resolution! mentoring programme weigh in on this year's new work' Read Judith Mackrell's review o…
Photo campaigns tell us a lot about the self-image of ballet companies: a new project at New York City Ballet is more artfulWhen ballet companies invite photographers in, there's often a rev…
Royal Opera House, LondonThe extraordinary Natalia Osipova's Giselle, taking drastic licence with the choreography, is a stunning interpretationNatalia Osipova has danced Giselle in London b…
