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Dance

  • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
    Review
    Boy Blue’s hip-hop dancers are masters of time and space

    The premiere of ‘Cycles’ at London’s Barbican lacked shape but not spectacle

    A complex arrangement of four dancers in upmarket streetwear
  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
    Review
    The Sleeping Beauty, Sadler’s Wells — soloists shine in classic production

    A revival in London of Peter Wright’s tasteful Birmingham Royal Ballet version is always welcome

    A ballerina with a joyful expression leaps with arms and legs outstretched while a male ballet dancer looks on, smiling
  • Monday, 22 April, 2024
    Review
    Hung Dance, London review — a man, a woman and a giant feather

    The Taipei company performed a tender, combative duet as part of the Coronet Theatre’s Taiwan Festival

    A male and female dancer perform; the woman has a very long feather as a headdress, the tip of which is touching the man’s neck; he recoils
  • Monday, 22 April, 2024
    HTSI
    Cowboy culture is everywhere – and it’s way more inclusive

    Inside the line dancing revival

    Line dancing at Manchester Pride in August 1995
  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
    Interview
    Choreographer Cathy Marston: ‘The idea of an unreliable narrator is really interesting’

    Her new Ballett Zürich production based on Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement brings a tricksy narrative to the stage

    A woman in a dance studio
  • Tuesday, 16 April, 2024
    Review
    Mehek, Sadler’s Wells — a passionate May-December dance-romance

    In the work’s London premiere, Aakash Odedra and Aditi Mangaldas created a compelling ecstasy of love found and lost

    A male dancer lies on his front looking down at a female dancer who lies on her back, looking up at him; both wear shimmering costumes
  • Friday, 12 April, 2024
    Review
    Elixir, Sadler’s Wells — festival stars older dancers and a tortoise after a strawberry

    Louise Lecavalier was mesmerising even if other items depended on nostalgia

    One woman stands in front of another against a red background
  • Saturday, 6 April, 2024
    InterviewMusic
    Guitarist Paco Peña on flamenco, avoiding the limelight and Jimi Hendrix

    The 81-year-old found fame in London’s Swinging Sixties celebrating his ancient art form

    A man playing a guitar
  • Tuesday, 2 April, 2024
    Review
    English National Ballet’s Carmen is sharp but sexless

    Choreographer Johan Inger’s version, performed at London’s Sadler’s Wells, shifts the story out of its steamy setting

    A dark-clad male dancer stands and holds up a female dancer wearing a short frilly red dress, her head tipped back and legs kicking; behind them, other dancers perform movements
  • Monday, 25 March, 2024
    Review
    Frankenstein — dancer Jonathan Goddard is one of the great monsters

    Choreographer Mark Bruce follows ‘Dracula’ with another horror that suggests a body at war with itself

    A muscly man with seams painted over his joints looks curiously into a mirror
  • Monday, 25 March, 2024
    Review
    Crystal Pite’s Assembly Hall — masterly dancing with a medieval twist

    The choreographer flooded the Sadler’s Wells stage with constant, inventive movement

    A close-up image shows a woman’s head facing sideways; behind her is a figure in a suit of medieval-style armour, placing one armour-gloved hand on the woman’s head
  • Thursday, 21 March, 2024
    Review
    Grief, bliss and terror in the Royal Ballet’s Kenneth MacMillan retrospective

    A strong cast starring Lauren Cuthbertson and Vadim Muntagirov demonstrated how the choreographer rewrote dance’s rules

    A man in a loincloth lifts a woman in a white tutu
  • Friday, 8 March, 2024
    Review
    New York City Ballet makes a long-awaited return to London at Sadler’s Wells — review

    Plus: five stars for Marianela Nuñez and Vadim Muntagirov in the Royal Ballet’s Swan Lake

    A group of male and female dancers in brightly coloured clothing jump and hold their hands above their heads
  • Friday, 1 March, 2024
    Review
    Dimitris Papaioannou, Sadler’s Wells review — little dance but octopuses and nudity to spare

    ‘Ink’ involves a silicone foetus, a goldfish bowl and a garden sprinkler

    A man stands in a dark environment wearing a soaking-wet shirt and trousers; a jet of water is spraying in front of him
  • Thursday, 29 February, 2024
    Choreographer Wayne McGregor unites dance, art and AI in his new spectacle

    ‘A Body for Harnasie’ turns a little-known 20th-century ballet into a multimedia fantasia for today

  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    HTSI
    When groove is in the art

    Eight artists putting dance in the frame

    Factual Actual II, 2020, by Florence Peake
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    HTSIThe Art of Sound: starring Burna Boy, Peter Blake, Michael Stipe, Samara Joy, Lankum and more
    How to strut it à la Saltburn

    Polly Bennett taught Barry Keoghan that dance. But can she take on one writer and her two new hips?

    Polly Bennett (left) and the author in a dance studio at Islington Arts Factory, London
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Review
    Pina Bausch’s ‘Nelken’ at Sadler’s Wells is exasperating and absorbing — review

    Also in London: the Royal Ballet showcases four new works on its main stage

    A group of male and female performers wearing loose dresses sit and stand with their arms raised; around them is a field of artificial flowers
  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
    Review
    São Paulo Dance Company at Sadler’s Wells — athletic solos and tight-knit ensembles

    Plus: a standing ovation for Roberto Bolle and Marianela Nuñez in the Royal Ballet’s Manon

    A group of male and female dancers move together, leaning back with arms extended
  • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
    HTSI
    Michelle Yeoh on the quiet power of martial arts

    The Oscar-winning actor describes why wing chun works for mind, body – and cinema

    Yeoh with dancers from the Shenzhen Opera and Dance Theatre in her new short film, Be Spring
  • Wednesday, 7 February, 2024
    ReviewMusic
    Kodo drummers leave heads spinning with Warabe — review

    The Japanese taiko troupe exhibited stunning synchronicity in a wide range of styles at London’s Barbican

    Two men play a large circular drum on a stae hung with lanterns
  • Saturday, 3 February, 2024
    ObituaryChita Rivera
    Chita Rivera, Broadway star, 1933-2024

    Her roles in ‘West Side Story’ and ‘Chicago’ made her a name-above-the-title musical theatre legend

    Chita Rivera as Anita in ‘West Side Story’ in 1957. Though she was one of the most original dance stylists of all time, Rivera was largely self-taught
  • Saturday, 3 February, 2024
    Review
    Five stars for Kim Brandstrup’s Metamorphoses — up close and personal with mythology

    With Alina Cojocaru among the cast, the choreographer is staging a classical double bill at the Theatre Royal, Bath

    A male dancer stands on stage holding a female dancer, who extends her legs behind her
  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    FT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to what’s on in our cities

    Use these cultural calendars to plan your 2024 city breaks, from New York to Copenhagen

  • Monday, 29 January, 2024
    Review
    Star dancers rescue a new ballet of Fellini’s La Strada — review

    Alina Cojocaru, Johan Kobborg and Mick Zeni shone in an otherwise disappointing version of the 1954 film

    A male dancer stands while a female dancer clings on to him, pleadingly
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