New artistic director aims to attract younger audiences and promises more than 20,000 tickets for £20 or less as company reveals 2020 programme Carlos Acosta has pledged to transform Birm…
Sadler's Wells, LondonMichael Keegan-Dolan's new dance work is steeped in the landscape and culture of the Dingle Peninsula It starts out like a sinister cult: the mask of a black ram, a cur…
Phoenix Dance Theatre's show looks back to the Zong slave ship massacre and the KÄlÄ PÄnÄ« prison torture. Three choreographers explain how they created it together How many peopl…
Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, LondonThis experiment by film-maker Kibwe Tavares and choreographer Sharon Eyal brims with talent but is frustrating Two young women in heavy robes and el…
Jacksons Lane, LondonIn this acrobatic theatre show, the Berlin circus trio Still Hungry juggle roles and wrestle with all the anxieties and expectations that come with child-rearing A disc…
From the soulful Jemima Brown to BBC Young Dancer champ Nafisah Baba, these dynamos have a stellar year ahead This Northern Irish dancer starts the year nominated for two Critics Circle danc…
Royal Opera House, LondonThe Russian ballerina is exhilarating to watch in John Cranko's 1965 take on Pushkin's novel, partnered by Reece Clarke in the title role There are few dancers who l…
Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe Canadian company's colourful Mexican-flavoured show is full of heart-stopping skill, dreamy lyricism and visual whimsy Many contemporary circus groups sell thems…
The Pit, LondonFleur Elise Noble's fantasy show at the London international mime festival is highly original and unsettling The London international mime festival (43 years old and stronger …
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonAerial theatre company Ockham's Razor deftly and poignantly explore age and innocence There is a wonderful warmth in the work of aerial theatre company Ockham's R…
Historical ballets are rife with offensive colonial politics but choreographers and dancers are finding creative ways to change them for today's audiences A 19th-century worldview informs mu…
Coliseum, LondonWhile its story of slavery and exotica is dubious, ENB's virtuoso dancers sparkle as much as the fake jewels Perhaps because ballet as an art form is so unreal, it's easy to…
As karaoke versions of musicals take off, we chat to punters at two West End shows " strictly during the interval, of course " to gauge opinion on audience participation 'It'll have them sin…
Royal Festival Hall, London In a culture of special effects, it is the moments of connection, creativity and wonder that matter Circus 1903 " in pictures Playing its second year as an altern…
London ColiseumEdward Clug strips back Shakespeare, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui riffs on Nijinsky and Wayne McGregor teams up with Manfred Thierry Mugler in this rich Russian triple bill What do y…
Coliseum, LondonA stylish riff on Coco Chanel's place in ballet history and a regal mocking of Handel make a double bill where style outshines insight The indomitable Boshoi ballerina Svetla…
Royal Opera House, LondonFrancesca Hayward sparkles in this twee revival, a luminous presence in an inconsequential story about a lifesize doll There are ballets of magical otherworldliness,…
The Place, LondonOn their final tour, Richard Alston Dance Company take it back to where it all began with a moving survey of their 25-year history It is a season of farewells for the Richar…
Shot on location with lashings of fighting and flirting, Romeo and Juliet: Beyond Words is a vibrant, up-close take on one of the Royal Ballet's best-loved gems It's been an ongoing quandary…
From the Chinese scene in Nutcracker to the Moor in Petrushka, are some ballets now offensively outdated? We ask big names in dance if they should be preserved, changed " or binned It's Chri…
Sadler's Wells, LondonCarlos Acosta's Havana-based troupe makes no wrong steps in charming, evocative and sharply technical mixed bill It's only three years since Cuban ballet star Carlos Ac…
Sadler's Wells, LondonMichelle Dorrance's superb pieces range from rubber-legged slapstick to brilliantly musical moves Michelle Dorrance may be a dancer, but musicianship is the bedrock of …
Sadler's Wells, LondonRelationships between the Israeli choreographer's idiosyncratic dancers play out on stage in a surreal and touching show There's a man in a dress, another wearing a kil…
Lilian Baylis Studio, LondonIt's hard not to warm to this bright Welsh company, but some of the more experimental works were confused in design and execution It takes a lot of grit and pluck…
Royal Opera House, LondonYasmine Naghdi conquers physics in a fairytale production with intricate and intense performances What is the appeal to adults of an old-fashioned fairytale? This on…