1,004 stories by "Judith Mackrell"
Akram Khan: iTMOi | Meryl Tankard: The OracleAkram Khan: iTMOi, LondonSadler's Wells continues its String Of Rites season with Akram Khan's response to the Nijinsky-Stravinsky ballet The Rit…
Royal Opera House, LondonIn 1782, as Europe was embracing the spirit of Enlightenment, a small town in Switzerland tortured and killed a woman for witchcraft. An eight-year-old girl, Annamig…
Tanztheater Wuppertal has appointed a new artistic director to take the company in a different direction and commission new works. But can anyone live up to Pina Bausch?When Pina Bausch died…
Would this modern dance pioneer be better known had she not fallen in step with the Nazis? Continue reading...
Would this modern dance pioneer be better known had she not fallen in step with the Nazis?Reading on mobile? Click here to view.As the debate gathers around the current imbalance between mal…
Bern Ballett: Witch-hunt | The Royal BalletBern Ballett: Witch-hunt, LondonCathy Marston has been artistic director of Bern Ballett for six years, hosting works by leading choreographers suc…
It's hardly shocking that so few Royal Ballet dancers are homegrown nationals " dance in this country has long been enriched by foreign talent. We should celebrate itIs the Royal Ballet fail…
A new book argues that this specialist theatre has helped make the city a magnet for the dance worldWilliam Forsythe thinks that "every city in the world should have a Sadler's Wells". In 20…
Dublin dance festival | VarmintsDublin dance festivalThis year's festival embraces an exceptional range of work, with Finnish choreographer Tero Saarinen opening events with a Stravinsky dou…
Linbury Studio, LondonAs Liam Scarlett premieres his first full-length narrative ballet, it's clear he has some very nasty things in the woodshed of his imagination. Not even the brothers Gr…
Sadler's Wells, LondonWhen London hosted the first Breakin' Convention a decade ago, hip-hop was widely assumed to be worlds away from mainstream dance. Now celebrating its 10th anniversary,…
Niall Ferguson is wrong: writing on Lopokova, Keynes' wife, I found evidence of a warm and loving relationship in which both wanted childrenIt's hard to count the ways in which Niall Ferguso…
Purcell Room, LondonThe hip-hop company Rubberbandance come with an unusually exotic provenance. While director Victor Quijada started out in the streets of Los Angeles, his co-director Anne…
Can you bodypop with one leg? Can you dance to music you can't hear? As Breakin' Convention opens in London, the crew of ILL-Abilities explain how anything's possible in hip-hopHis nickname …
The wild women of 1920s dance didn't just get everyone doing the Charleston and the Grizzly Bear. Stars like Josephine Baker and Tallulah Bankhead also played a pivotal role in women's emanc…
The wild women of 1920s dance didn't just get everyone doing the Charleston and the Grizzly Bear. Stars like Josephine Baker and Tallulah Bankhead also played a pivotal role in women's emanc…
Sadler's Wells, LondonSidi Larbi Cherkaoui's work has always been about making connections: between different dance forms; religions and rituals; art and science. But in Puz/zle, it's the ur…
From Brooklyn to South Africa breakdancing is cross-pollinating with other forms to create vibrant, gravity-defying new hybridsIt's been a decade since hip-hop impresario Jonzi D orchestrate…
From Brooklyn to South Africa breakdancing is cross-pollinating with other forms to create vibrant, gravity-defying new hybrids Continue reading...
Place theatre, LondonThe judges for this year's Place prize might not be declaring their winner until Saturday, but already the public are deciding. Audiences at each of the 10 acts in …
Coliseum, LondonAs the recently appointed director of English National Ballet, Tamara Rojo has been expertly spinning a new grown-up, sexy and very contemporary image for her company. And ev…
An experiment at London's Trinity Laban Conservatoire aims to assess the success gap between male and female dance professionals " putting women back on the front footWhere have all the wome…
Sadler's Wells, LondonIt was brave of National Ballet of Canada to mark their first London visit in 26 years with a production of Romeo and Juliet. The Sergei Prokofiev classic is at the hea…
Sadler's Wells, LondonWhen The Rite of Spring premiered in 1913, it detonated a cultural explosion, whose continuing effects are being explored in this season of Rite-inspired works at Sadle…
London ColiseumRarely has a dance production attracted so much gossip and speculation as Peter Schaufuss's Midnight Express, which last week looked as though it might be cancelled due to the…
