1,004 stories by "Judith Mackrell"
Sadler's Wells, LondonMusic creates the challenges as well as the pleasures of Rambert's latest mixed bill " and nowhere more so than in Paul Taylor's 1985 Roses. Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, t…
Barn:Ballett " Clara, Howl, LondonBern:Ballett is one of the few significant European ballet companies run by a woman, its artistic director being British choreographer Cathy Marston. For it…
Brighton DomeSidi Larbi Cherkaoui's 2009 work Apocrifu is all about words, and the terrible power of language to antagonise and divide. But, while there is a great sadness haunting this piec…
Royal Opera House, LondonWayne McGregor is a choreographer who takes his ideas from notoriously unballetic sources, such as neuro-science and technology. And his latest work, Live Fire Exerc…
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: Apocrifu, BrightonFlemish-Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui has always displayed a fearless approach to dance-theatre, willing to negotiate massively ambitiou…
Sadler's Wells, LondonI love dance programmes that are dedicated to just one choreographer's work. Run of the mill in modern dance, they are rare in ballet, where the imperative to create an…
Dutch National Ballet: Hans van Manen " Master Of Dance, LondonHans van Manen still ranks as the signature choreographer of Dutch National Ballet, with some 120 ballets to his name, and this…
Royal Opera House, LondonManon is having yet another run at the Opera House, and I'm beginning to feel about it the way I do about MacMillan's other box office standard, Romeo and Juliet. It…
Marine Theatre, Lyme RegisFriday may have universally been branded Kate and Wills day, but it was also Unesco World Day of Dance 2011. And down at the Lyme Regis Fossil festival, in among th…
Breakin' Convention '11, LondonThe Wells' three-day hip-hop festival has become an annual fixture in the dance calendar, and this year's lineup boasts its usual, international mix of virtuos…
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonWhen the 12 members of Groupe Acrobatique de Tanger first come on stage, you get no sense of their extraordinary skills. Dressed in baggy tracksuits, their b…
Rites: Stravinsky's The Rite Of Spring, LondonAs dance in cinemas goes 3D in a big way, with Wim Wenders's Pina on release this week and the Mariinsky's Giselle recently screened in UK cinem…
Last week, Scottish Ballet opened its brand-new adaptation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, choreographed by Ashley Page: a surreal, psychedelic journey into the book, which explores its…
With punter-friendly favourites, revived masterpieces and daring collaborations, the artistic director's final season looks likely to be a classicThe Royal Ballet's next season is the last t…
Coliseum, LondonLondon loves Diaghilev. During the 29 years in which the great impresario ran the Ballets Russes, few cities offered him a warmer, more dependable welcome. A century on, the …
Theatre Royal, GlasgowWinter 2010 saw four Cinderella ballets touring the UK, but spring 2011 is all about Alice. Just six weeks after the Royal premiered Christopher Wheeldon's Alice, Scott…
The Place, LondonEvery critic knows what it's like to be sitting in a theatre, completely at odds with the mood. But I've rarely felt that disconnect as acutely as at this year's Place Prize…
The Place, LondonEveryone knows what it's like to be sitting in a theatre, at odds with the general mood. But I've rarely felt that disconnect as acutely as at this year's Place Prize. At ea…
New Wimbledon theatre, LondonA change of stage can do surprising things to choreography. Two of the works in the Richard Alston Dance Company's current tour were created for closeup vie…
From spiky, surreal cabaret to an exhilarating Royal Ballet triple bill, Judith Mackrell picks the highlights of the seasonScottish Ballet: Alice The second Alice ballet to hit the stage in …
Selected cinemasSuddenly 3D is everywhere, a shiny new toy for filming dance. In Pina, Wim Wenders's imminent documentary about the work of Pina Bausch, the technology justifies itself in sp…
Coliseum, LondonGeorge Balanchine never concealed his fascination for ballerinas. "Ballet is woman," the choreographer famously pronounced. But this week in London, it's the male dancers who…
Black Swan has nothing on the scandal-hit Russian ballet company and its long and bloody historyTwo months ago the Critics' Circle bestowed three of its annual dance awards on the Bolshoi ba…
Sadler's Wells, LondonIt may have been Tchaikovsky who inspired the Pet Shop Boys to attempt their first ballet score, but the music they've written for The Most Incredible Thing is not even…
BBC 4's documentary about ENB has been compelling viewing, but didn't dig deep enough into the questions troubling ballet " and ballet dancersWhen a BBC TV crew moved into English National B…
