Sadler's Wells East, LondonAkeim Toussaint Buck's bass-heavy production invites the audience to get up and lose themselves in the music A must for reggae lovers, and anyone in the market fo…
The Place, LondonInspired by The House of Bernarda Alba, Amina Khayyam explores tensions between tradition, freedom, fear and love I admire the work of Amina Khayyam. The Slough-based dancer…
Her latest work is built on dark, minimal beats and groups of dancers moving in unison. It's sensual, visceral and, she says, totally intuitive A couple of summers ago I was in a club in Man…
Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, LondonMixed bill features twee neo-classicism, jazzy frocks and racial antagonism as it rachets up to an urgent and commanding Salomé that feels genuinel…
Somerset House and Stone Nest, London Installations, some triggered by the viewer's own body, show off the wide range of a choreographer always fizzing with fresh ideas Wayne McGregor wants …
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe mythological piece for 12 female dancers was developed in Saudi Arabia and pulsates with physical intensity and ancestral rage Akram Khan is a choreographer at his …
Stage@leeds/Stanley & Audrey Burton theatre, LeedsAmrita Hepi measures words and movement as she talks through her artistic journey and Tiran Willemse takes Moon River in a new direction…
The Place, LondonThis delightfully unique triple bill spans many worlds with Busby Berkeley-style sci-fi formations, a hazy summery waltz and a wild rampage of Welsh folk dance The sequins a…
York Theatre RoyalJeyasingh's choreography is well wrought and precise but Caliban's struggles with servitude and resistance feel adrift amid a sea of ideas Choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh o…
Barbican, LondonAmala Dianor Company and baroque ensemble Les Arts Florissants combine for an occasionally exquisite yet oddly dispassionate show The marrying of music and dance is an indefa…
Mimi's Shebeen, choreographed by Alesandra Seutin, charts South African legend's exile and ascendancy with 'beautiful songs, strong messages and moments that hit' "You speak about Miriam Mak…
What will the ballet dancer of the future look like? We visit the hunting lodge where the next generation are being trained " and find huge changes are under way It's an idyllic autumn day …
As her company prepares to celebrate its centenary, the legendary choreographer's groundbreaking work is finally getting the respect it deserves in the UK. What took so long? A century ago, …
Sadler's Wells East, LondonDance Umbrella festival opens with a bold yet alienating piece inspired by mythology and magical realism It's as if you've turned up at the party when they're all …
Sadler's Wells, LondonIn a stunning evening, fearless and faultless dancers deliver a trio of classics, ending with a gorgeous yet more subdued piece by David Dawson English National Ballet'…
Bristol Beacon Composer Jóhann Jóhannson's moody film, narrated by Swinton and inspired by a classic novel, gains little from a live dance interpretation Is it possible for the apocal…
The choreographer has paired the tragedies of Oedipus Rex and Antigone in a monumental double bill, Jocasta's Line, which refuses to spoon-feed audiences When Stravinsky composed Oedipus Rex…
The internationally feted choreographer has worked with pop megastars, a sculptor and the monks of the Shaolin Temple. Now he is tackling the cultural divisions and colonial legacy of his ho…
Sadler's Wells, LondonAlina Cojocaru is breathtaking, Ratmansky's music zings and Joseph Taylor gets a fantastic angry solo It's exciting when artists push boundaries, melt genres, revoluti…
Peacock theatre, LondonStarting from a single dancer, an intricate moving patterns of limbs forms a complex weave of shifting patterns in Sadeck Berrabah's technically impressive show There'…
Frauke Requardt and Vivienne Franzmann's dance-theatre show Anatomy of Survival examines 23 versions of reality in 'powder keg' cities One morning, playwright Vivienne Franzmann was queueing…
Southbank Centre, LondonA cast of 80 spray-paint the pavement, parade a 40-phone selfie stick and bring dirty bass to ballet in (La)Horde's night of sensational dance morsels A black stretch…
Rachael Gunn's disastrous summer at the Paris Games in 2024 has inspired a silly show about 'Spraygun' but its jibes are unfair Everyone can have a bad day at the office. But for most of us,…
Several portrayals of the royal's tumultuous life take place in Edinburgh this month, each examining her relationship with Elizabeth I and challenging the narrative of two women at war 'It w…
Surprise finds at the festival include a sweet kids' show about embracing your differences and a beautifully choreographed martial arts duet, in a year with work-in-progress energy For start…