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    • Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
      Review
      Pit, Paris Opera Ballet — cocktail-party dance goes Gaga

      Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber use an expressive choreographic language but don’t develop characters

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    • Saturday, 18 March, 2023
      Interview
      Carlos Acosta: ‘Plymouth is great but in New York you’ve got strong competition’

      Between hamstring stretches, the Birmingham Royal Ballet boss discusses fostering new talent and embracing Black Sabbath

    • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
      Review
      Nina Simone’s life story vividly told in Ballet Black’s Nina: By Whatever Means

      Plus: Seeta Patel’s ‘Rite of Spring’ at Sadler’s Wells is an Indian-dance-inflected take on Stravinsky’s score

    • Monday, 13 March, 2023
      Review
      Five stars for the pyrotechnic Tiler Peck and Friends at Sadler’s Wells

      The dancer showed almost superhuman stamina and technique in a quadruple bill she also curated

    • Monday, 13 March, 2023
      Review
      Great Gatsby ballet puts flapper frocks and jazzy score to the fore — review

      Northern Ballet production dodges period drama clichés. Plus, ‘Woolf Works’ returns to the Royal Opera House

    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      Review
      Dada Masilo’s The Sacrifice gives Stravinsky a South African twist

      The performers display strength and suppleness in a show at Sadler’s Wells rooted in the Tswana dance of Botswana

    • Sunday, 26 February, 2023
      HTSI
      The last dance? Inside the Vienna Ball

      People have predicted its demise for decades. But it’s whirling as powerfully as ever

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      Review
      Leonard Cohen dance tribute at Sadler’s Wells fails to raise hallelujahs 

      Ballets Jazz Montréal’s ‘Dance Me’ features some of the singer’s greatest hits

    • Tuesday, 7 February, 2023
      Review
      Pam Tanowitz’s Royal Ballet triple bill is fresh, witty and unique

      ‘Secret Things’ was an edgy world premiere set to an Anna Clyne string quartet

    • Sunday, 5 February, 2023
      HTSI
      La Bayadère boys

      In their restaging of the classic ballet, dancer Benjamin Pech and artist Ignasi Monreal have created the perfect pas de deux

    • Saturday, 4 February, 2023
      InterviewMusic
      Composer Anna Clyne: ‘Music with melody connects with something very deeply rooted in us’

      Her kaleidoscopic work has drawn on Emily Dickinson and London parks and has now inspired a new dance at the Royal Opera House

    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      Review
      Acosta Danza’s Spectrum at the Linbury Theatre — five works glide by smoothly

      The London programme from Carlos Acosta’s company features fine dancers, but the choreographic choices are questionable

    • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
      Review
      The Games We Play — Gandini Juggling show could do with more balls and fewer concepts

      Sean Gandini and Kati Ylä-Hokkala are dexterous and engaging in the hour-long London show

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      Review
      Mel C aims to spice up Julie Cunningham’s how did we get here?

      The Sadler’s Wells world premiere was earnest and introspective but lacked energy

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
      Review
      Sleeping Beauty sets the bar impossibly high at the Royal Opera House

      Marianela Núñez has danced the role since 2003 and still displays all the fairy gifts

    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
      Review
      English National Ballet’s Swan Lake is danced with soulful precision

      Derek Deane’s production is revived with strong performances and meticulous choreography

    • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
      Review
      New generation takes on France’s longest-running hip-hop dance festival

      Suresnes Cités Danse had plenty of premieres, including rising star Mehdi Kerkouche’s ‘Portrait’

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      The Aesthete
      Dancer and choreographer Léo Walk talks taste

      The Paris-based choreographer collects stones, admires JFK Jr, and smells of Terre d’Hermès

    • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
      Review
      Ukraine’s state ballet sends defiant message with lively Giselle

      National Ballet of Ukraine, which has been performing amid attacks in Kyiv, brought elegance and attitude to a Paris show

    • Tuesday, 3 January, 2023
      Arts
      From Vermeer to Joni Mitchell: hot tickets for 2023

      Amsterdam’s show of dozens of Vermeer works is set to be one of the highlights of a year that promises blockbusters, comebacks and a final farewell

    • Monday, 19 December, 2022
      Review
      Snowed In, The Place — a delightfully inventive Christmas show for kids

      Plus: English National Ballet’s creaking Nutcracker at the London Coliseum

    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      Review
      Sleeping Beauty, Sadler’s Wells — sumptuous staging let down by pedestrian steps

      Matthew Bourne’s production is well danced, with plenty of clever quotations from other ballets

    • Tuesday, 6 December, 2022
      Review
      Ruination, Royal Opera House review — up-tempo Medea combines tragedy and farce

      Lost Dog’s dance production at the Linbury Theatre is surprisingly funny and steamy

    • Monday, 28 November, 2022
      Review
      Flamenco star Israel Galván enchants at Sadler’s Wells

      ‘La Consagración de la Primavera’ disappeared in a flash and was studded with cheeky quotes

    • Friday, 25 November, 2022
      HTSI
      The rise (and falls) of the roller disco

      The reopening of an iconic skating venue has brought back the boogie

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