Sadler's Wells East, LondonVicki Igbokwe-Ozoagu captures all the fun and mini-drama of a great night out, creating a suitably feelgood celebration to welcome this new dance venue It's a big …
Ballet has always been more than just a job for Carlos Acosta. And as director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, he is trying to make it bigger than ever " even in the face of brutal cuts and the …
The Place, LondonSean Gandini's intricate and artful show about magic shows plays with the audience and the malleable sense of reality There's a quote, Sean Gandini tells us, from the French…
Royal Opera House, LondonMthuthuzeli November expertly fuses ballet, contemporary and South African dance in Fools. Plus five minutes of fun from Kristen McNally and Rudi van Dantzig's Four …
Southbank Centre, LondonDewey Dell bring resonant energy to reinvent one of the most frequently revisited pieces in dance history The backspinning b-boy spiders are a revelation. And the lar…
Barbican, LondonLittle happens in this wordless show about an Irish navvy who lives a lonely existence and yearns for home but it is oddly affecting One egg cup on the shelf, one tin mug, on…
Royal Albert Hall, LondonA clown's funeral procession is the pretext for some of the most skilled performers in the business to swoop, float and fly through the air There's a procession pass…
The Place, LondonYouthful ambition and vision always charge the atmosphere with optimism at this festival of future dance talent For 35 years The Place has been offering up an abundance of b…
Performer and choreographer who fused ballet with South African contemporary dance styles More than a profession, dance was a calling and an innate need for the South African performer and c…
Sadler's Wells' new purpose-built space is a reflection of the booming popularity of the art form in the capital. But is all this success representative of the country as a whole? And if not…
Royal Festival Hall, LondonBorrowing from Swan Lake and the Ugly Duckling, Circa deliver wow moments and ornate arrangements as the dancers move in finely tuned equilibrium Australian compan…
London Coliseum Artistic director Aaron S Watkin oversees a faintly surreal Edwardian setting of dancing chimney sweeps, suffragettes and Liquorice Allsorts in a sweet but not sickly product…
At 98, the choreographer has lost none of his love for dance " or his scathing wit. As his classic Nutcracker is performed again, he talks about grit, the 'rubbish' classics and directing a …
Apollo theatre, LondonThere's plenty of festive, fact-filled fun at this kids' show hosted by the cheery TV presenter Maddie Moate's USP is maximum enthusiasm. She never stops smiling, as an…
Sadler's Wells, LondonClaire Cunningham's affecting solo performance is a meditation on how we find our way along unexpected paths A dance performance that credits two mountaineering consult…
Sadler's Wells, LondonIn a production loosely based on the Mahabharata, Khan has gathered classical Indian dancers who create a world that echoes through the centuries Akram Khan is at an in…
Dancer and choreographer who rose to fame with Alvin Ailey's company in New York and became its artistic director It was a failed audition that set in motion the superlative career of the Am…
Royal Opera House, LondonWayne McGregor's take on the novelist's complex tale is ambitious, beautiful and, though wanting in some parts, redeemed by incredible performances It makes complete…
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonPairs of dancers exactly in time with each other act out Anthony Hamilton's hypnotic contemporary dance algorithm It looks a bit like Janet Jackson's Rhythm Natio…
Linbury theatre, LondonSophie Laplane's If at First switches so fast stylistically that it might be garbled, while Mthuthuzeli November's The Waiting Game stages an existential crisis Sophie…
The Place, London Hannah Ekholm and Faye Stoeser's double bill pairs precise poses with a compelling electronic score Club culture has left its stamp on contemporary dance in recent years " …
Theatre Royal, NorwichTchaikovsky's score gets a Latin makeover and Cuban dance styles combine with classical ballet in this joyful and colourful festive family show In 1969, Fidel Castro b…
Dancers and audiences are being fitted with electrode caps as part of a massive neurological study into how we respond to live performance " and the findings go far beyond what was first ima…
As a new show co-created by an AI performer opens in France, industry leaders including Wayne McGregor, Tamara Rojo and Jonzi D contemplate the technology's possibilities and perils 'I think…
Sadler's Wells, LondonAbby Zbikowski's choreography resembles the most gruelling and exacting CrossFit ever " with superhero dancers displaying mind-boggling virtuosity I've never seen anyth…