Sadler's Wells, LondonThe tradition-trashing dancer serves up a brilliant, table-stomping blend of experiment, absurdity and subversion We arrive at Israel Galván's fiesta when it feels a…
Southwark Playhouse, LondonA crack cast fire up this romp through Fats Waller's music, directed by Tyrone Huntley with moves by the Strictly dancer The black box of Southwark Playhouse is tr…
Sadler's Wells, LondonAnne Teresa de Keersmaeker's choreography for the composer's music, played by cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, is austere and enigmatic If you were going to choose a choreo…
The idea still makes people uneasy but two new plays " Fighter and The Sweet Science of Bruising " explore the courage, pain and history of women boxers 'I always try to say this without sou…
Barbican, LondonSix decades of solos form an unsentimental and surprising celebration of the legendary choreographer's highly technical dance experiments On what would have been Merce Cunnin…
As her acclaimed take on Four Quartets heads to London, choreographer Pam Tanowitz explains why she's still trying to crack the poem Her choreography has been hailed by the New York Times as…
The Sharks-v-Jets classic is told with Jerome Robbins' 'perfect' moves, admits Aletta Collins. How did she create new ones? Aletta Collins is telling me about what arrived in the post when s…
Sadler's Wells, LondonIbsen gets an urgent retelling, Kahlo dances with a monkey and Bausch's masterwork is back in Tamara Rojo's stellar triple bill In 2016, English National Ballet directo…
Ballet shoes have always been a pale peachy pink because it was assumed dancers were, too. Now a British footwear company is striking a blow for ballerinas of colour everywhere When Ballet B…
Royal Opera House, LondonLauren Cuthbertson and Matthew Ball sumptuously express the recklessness of youth in Kenneth MacMillan's fine ballet We think of Romeo and Juliet as a story about lo…
Print Room at the Coronet, London Saburo Teshigawara's take on the Russian classic isolates its hero, creating striking scenes that leave you pining for a connection Japanese choreographer …
Ballet and film complement each other perfectly in a biopic of the superstar dancer that captures life under Castro's rule Dance on film can have many functions. It might act as a showstoppi…
Barbican, LondonThe company's triple bill includes Ingoma, a powerful piece inspired by events that led to South Africa's anti-apartheid movement Ballet Black may be, by its nature, politica…
She conquered Strictly while still living in a bedsit. Now the dancing multi-linguist and trained engineer is making the leap into musicals " where she's planning to 'go crazy' Glamour is of…
Sadler's Wells, LondonWith one piece choreographed by the company and the other by Christopher Wheeldon, this is a fresh, thoughtful show Over the last 19 years, BalletBoyz has metamorphosed…
After her celebrated Jane Eyre, Cathy Marston is staging a revelatory regal ballet. She talks about binge-watching ITV's Victoria and the politics of storytelling Queen Victoria is falling …
Sadler's Wells, LondonClassical virtuosity combines with contemporary sensibility in this selection of highlights from a 25-year repertoire 'How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life…
Barbican, LondonInspired by a sci-fi novella, the artist teams up with Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener for a bracing dance experiment A woman's face looms, very large and unnervingly close…
The newly knighted choreographer is shutting his company due to cuts and has snapped his achilles tendon. But he's full of optimism about the future I'm expecting Richard Alston to be angry,…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe loss of the company's founder Pina Bausch a decade ago is at the heart of this meticulous meditation on grief and death Bon Voyage, Bob … is only the second new f…
With a dance version of Dickens's A Christmas Carol, a collaboration with Greek composer Vangelis and his touring show Silent Lines, the questing choreographer is busier than ever I'm lost o…
Sadler's Wells, LondonChoreographed by Dimitris Papaioannou, the company's first new work since its founder died in 2009 is uncanny in its blending of his and her imaginationsWhen Pina Bausc…
When Jeanguy Saintus first saw Stravinsky's Rite, he was reminded of his religion's initiation ceremonies. Now, he has created his own spirited version of the balletSince its infamous premie…
A new project is looking at how choreography can improve urban engineering, but there has long been a profound relationship between cities and danceIn the crowded conventillos (shared teneme…
Royal Opera House, LondonFrom Aletta Collins' refreshing abstraction to Calvin Richardson's human piñatas, this is just what the Royal needsThe musicians of the London Sinfonietta are in …