Tuff Nutt Jazz Club, Southbank Centre, LondonA hunky Action Man opens up a sequin-clad life for the protagonist of Drew McOnie's jazzy, out-and-proud take on Tchaikovsky's ballet The run-up …
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonWith incredible moves from Rio's Cia Suave, Alice Ripoll choreographs a joyful celebration of young lives The party has started on stage before we've even sat dow…
Sadler's Wells, LondonA loose, casual dance based on an artist's interpretation of a Cézanne painting via a Pete Harden score is full of ideas that often feel out of sync You could watch F…
The Place, LondonThe set is a claustrophobic flat, the clothes are baggy, the prop is a gaming console … this three-part show lets us peer into its characters' lives There's something abo…
Royal Opera House, LondonSam Steiner's play, set in a world of rationed speech, lends itself to movement, and the dancers here also retain the dialogue, fusing the forms with quiet grace A s…
Our regional dance series continues in Northern Ireland where, despite little funding, the capital has produced a European star in Oona Doherty " with more on the way 'This is still a segreg…
Aviva Studios, ManchesterThe director's collaboration with hip-hop dance company Boy Blue, designer Es Devlin and writer Sabrina Mahfouz conveys the march of AI There are some shows that are…
Sadler's Wells, LondonLeading Indian kathak performer Mangaldas explores her desire and confronts the double standards around men's and women's sexuality Is it audacious for a 63-year-old wo…
Barbican, LondonMeditation on the Bible's great love poem can feel opaque but it is performed with great precision and set to a bewitching score There's something unsolvable about Pam Tanowi…
The Place/Somerset House, LondonHighlights of the opening weekend of the annual month-long dance festival included an arresting piece about gender expectations by Taiwan's Su PinWen and an e…
Despite her work being described as the greatest dance theatre of the century, Tanowitz can still be found 'backstage, throwing up' before shows. Will her new production, based on a Hebrew l…
Royal Opera House, LondonWith its stellar leads and lively background action, this sprightly revival of Carlos Acosta's revised staging is a celebration of the pleasure of classical dance Is…
Birmingham HippodromeThree choreographers use inspiringly orchestrated tracks from the city's heavy metal legends to spring some surprises What on earth does a Black Sabbath ballet look like…
In showbiz since the age of six, and still high-kicking at 59, the screen and stage sensation looks back on her biggest moments " from Cats to Doctor Who to the 'madness' of The Masked Dance…
Sadler's Wells, LondonDancers in flight exist in a different realm in an absorbing Les Noces, reimagined as a sequel to The Rite of Spring, in this triple bill from a company really pushing …
Created 100 years ago, Nijinska's ballet Les Noces is a feminist masterpiece. Andrea Miller, who has choreographed a new version using Stravinsky's music and art by Phyllida Barlow, hails a …
The first dancer of colour to join the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet whose ballet school in Cape Town was closed in the 1970s as he refused to operate under apartheid rulesThe South African …
Stanley & Audrey Burton theatre, LeedsIntimate Pages, the newest piece by the US dance star turned choreographer, is the inventive highlight of an adventurous triple bill New York City B…
Our series on regional dance scenes continues with a visit to Hebden Bridge, where a range of left-field choreographers have put on work Donna Summer's I Feel Love kicks in and everybody's u…
When the Ukrainian invasion began, the ballet great left a show at the Bolshoi in protest. Here he reconsiders his past ties with Russia and the silence of the cultural elite in the country …
Festival theatre, EdinburghThe American company brought Ailey's legendary Revelations, still hugely powerful after 65 years, alongside modern pieces of precision and fire The thing about th…
Assembly @ Dance Base, EdinburghBobak Champion is a storyteller who dances from one character to another in these travels between Bristol and Tehran There is a fragrant scent when you walk i…
The festival's Dance Base hosts eclectic performances involving a wondrous paper sculpture, an examination of duality and Bach reimagined There are more shows at the fringe than you could ev…
Summerhall, EdinburghThis life-affirming show from the Danish company Himherandit Productions moves from HIIT class to bacchanale We're two minutes in and already those of us sitting down ar…
Zoo Southside, EdinburghMikel Murfi and Finola Cronin have laughs, despair and arresting moments of connection in a dance-theatre show about the realities of ageing The flub, that's what he…