1,004 stories by "Judith Mackrell"
Dance legend Lucinda Childs was going nowhere " until an avant-garde opera about a famous physicist shot her to success. As the work returns, Judith Mackrell tracks her downNew York is in th…
Dance critic Judith Mackrell goes on the catwalk with the Royal Ballet at their one-off London fashion week showJudith Mackrell
Linbury studio theatre, LondonFew works of literature describe movement in such hallucinatory detail as The Metamorphosis, with its portrayal of Gregor Samsa's absurd, harrowing transformati…
Royal Opera House, LondonChoreographer Balanchine was famously inspired by the window display of Fifth Avenue jewellers Van Cleef and Arpels when he created his full-length ballet Jewels. An…
Curve, LeicesterDESH is Bengali for homeland, and in Akram Khan's latest solo the choreographer returns to the world of his Bangladeshi roots, in search of the stories and characters of…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThere's a strong collective spirit in the Brazilian company Grupo Corpo, which has been run for 36 years by members of one family, the Pederneiras clan. Yet the name it…
St George's West, EdinburghIt's Carmel's 80th birthday " but as she finds herself being feted by a surprise party, her immediate reaction is panic and dismay. Only after a pause can she adju…
King's theatre, EdinburghSouth Asian dance is thriving in Britain, yet most of the work grabbing the limelight tends to be some form of contemporary fusion: classical Indian dance mixed with…
Edinburgh PlayhouseIt's an obvious truth that abstract dance is never really abstract. When men and women are dancing on stage, there is always human behaviour involved. The way they listen …
Shen Wei Dance Arts: Re-Triptych, EdinburghChinese choreographer Shen Wei is based in New York but he still derives inspiration from his Asian background, and in this three-part work he char…
The Nrityagram Dance Ensemble: SriyahNrityagram, meaning dance village, is India's first residential school of classical dance, and its performing ensemble is fast emerging as one of the gre…
Zoo Southside, EdinburghMixed media events can often feel like less than the sum of their parts. But in Forgetting Natasha, dance, poetry and film integrate with unusually economic force to …
Edinburgh Festival theatreThe world's ballet companies may seem increasingly interchangeable in repertory and style, but National Ballet of China's Peony Pavilion stands out as a captiv…
Eun-Me Ahn Company: Princess BariEun-Me Ahn is one of the most vital forces on the South Korean dance scene, her choreography fusing traditional languages like the dance theatre form pansori…
Royal Opera House, LondonTo reduce Anna Karenina to a two-act ballet is a tough call, and Alexei Ratmansky's version (seen in the UK for the first time this week) is an intellectual and visu…
A Conversation With Carmel; Forgetting Natasha, EdinburghTwo of the Edinburgh fringe's most interesting pieces of dance-theatre have elderly women at their heart. In Barrowland Ballet's A Co…
Royal Opera House, LondonUliana Lopatkina opened the Mariinsky season as an exquisite but emotionally inaccessible Odette. Making her first entrance in Jerome Robbins's In the Night, she's a…
Royal Opera House, LondonThe Mariinsky's Don Quixote looks every one of its 100-plus years: its jokes ancient, its gestures creaky, its contours sagging. But the right dancers can still galv…
Royal Opera House, LondonTowards the end of its brief but stellar life, Diaghilev's Ballets Russes had become a European project, its repertory and designs dominated by western influences. I…
Edinburgh FringeDance on the fringe is getting stronger, and even if it can't begin to rival the range of theatre and comedy on show, this year's programme has some rich pickings. Opening in…
Royal Opera HouseWhen does a living treasure turn into a museum piece? It's a question at the heart of ballet, and especially at the heart of the Mariinsky's Swan Lake. I've always loved thi…
Mariinsky Ballet, LondonThis giant St Petersburg company returns to London for a three-week season that includes some UK premieres , welcome repeats and a packed roster of stars. It opens wi…
Coliseum, LondonRoland Petit, who died just over a week ago, was fabled as the man who brought sex, style and bohemian-chic to the post-war ballet stage. But he should also be commemorated a…
Boy Blue Entertainment: Touch, LondonAcclaimed street dance company Boy Blue Entertainment is used to impressing its public on a large scale, with its theatre shows Pied Piper and Over The E…
Coliseum, LondonSir Frederick Ashton's Romeo and Juliet may be danced to the same Prokofiev score as Sir Kenneth MacMillan's, but beyond that the two versions are completely different. While…
