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  • 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
  • Monday, 22 January, 2024
    Review
    Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon is vividly played by the Royal Ballet — review

    This 50th anniversary revival was danced by a company on fine form

    A male and female ballet dancer perform on stage; he is standing and holding her back and one of her legs as she arches back, her arms extended behind her
  • Tuesday, 16 January, 2024
    Review
    New Movement Collective’s reimagined Les Noces is a stimulating affair — review

    Dancers, singers, musicians and a beatboxer responded to the ballet masterpiece at Woolwich Works, London

    A group of dancers cluster together facing inwards, reaching up with their hands
  • Tuesday, 16 January, 2024
    Review
    Slapstick and sexual politics at Suresnes Cités Danse — review

    The hip-hop festival’s opening weekend at the Théâtre Jean-Vilar featured works that showed promise and distinction

    A line of dancers wearing flimsy dresses and holding lengths of fabric stand and adopt various poses
  • Monday, 15 January, 2024
    Review
    English National Ballet revives Mary Skeaping’s unashamedly old-school Giselle — review

    Opening performances at the London Coliseum lacked dramatic power, though the corps de ballet are finding their feet

    A male ballet dancer lies on the stage with his arm extended towards a female ballerina; behind them is a line of female dancers in mid-length tutus
  • Wednesday, 10 January, 2024
    Interview
    Ballet star Alina Cojocaru on bringing the Pope’s favourite film to the stage

    The former Royal Ballet dancer’s adaptation of Fellini’s ‘La Strada’ is coming to Sadler’s Wells — and giving her the ‘dream role’ of the tragic heroine

    Ballet dancer Alina Cojocaru on a darkened stage wearing a light, fluttery cream-coloured dress
  • Saturday, 6 January, 2024
    Q&AThe Questionnaire
    Carlos Acosta: ‘I would choose to have a certain amount of suffering’

    The Cuban-born director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet on motivation, mentors and happy memories of his parents dancing

  • Tuesday, 19 December, 2023
    Review
    Pirates!, Scottish Dance Theatre — larks and laughs on the high seas for tiny buccaneers

    Christmas offering at The Place in London has a shanty-fied soundtrack and acrobatic routines

    A group of performers dressed in piratical costumes stand with their arms extended
  • Friday, 15 December, 2023
    Review
    Edward Scissorhands — Matthew Bourne’s gothic-lite version lacks gloom

    Cosy and clear-cut New Adventures production begins UK tour at Sadler’s Wells, London

    A young man with scissors for hands stands over a man lying on the floor
  • Wednesday, 13 December, 2023
    Review
    Paris Opera Ballet soars with Jiří Kylián but stumbles over The Nutcracker

    Kylián had been missing from the repertoire for a few years so his return is welcome

    A female dancer stands with arms raised as a male dancer leaps athletically
  • Monday, 11 December, 2023
    Review
    Choreographer Trajal Harrell richly celebrated in Paris — review

    The Festival d’Automne has staged a retrospective of the distinctive dancemaker

    A group of dancers wearing black dresses sit on chairs while one dancer performs in front of them
  • Thursday, 7 December, 2023
    Review
    The Nutcracker, Royal Ballet — Fumi Kaneko sets the seasonal bar high

    The first of 14 Sugar Plum Fairies this Christmas was in perfect sync with Tchaikovsky’s music

    A male ballet dancer in a beige pearl-encrusted top holds a female ballet dancer as she stands on one leg, extending the other high behind her
  • Friday, 1 December, 2023
    Review
    Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, Sadler’s Wells — remarkable strength and versatility

    The company’s new piece ‘Lunar Halo’ features impressive physicality and dramatic lighting

    Three dancers mid-move where they raise their right arm, bent at the elbow
  • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
    Review
    Five stars for the Cannes Dance Festival — from Vivaldi to zombies

    The event opened with a world premiere by Thierry Malandain and an alluring piece by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar

    A male and a female dancer perform against a backdrop of giant leaves
  • Monday, 27 November, 2023
    Review
    The Dante Project, Royal Ballet review — soloists shine brightly in infernal revival

    Plus: Rambert’s ‘Death Trap’ at Sadler’s Wells is too heavy on the words

    A female and male dancer confront each other on stage
  • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
    Review
    Paul Taylor dance company, New York — poetic dramas

    The late American choreographer lives on in the company he created and their vibrant versions of the works

    Male dancers in orange trousers and female dancers in orange dresses
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