Dance

Turning feral: Lord of the Flies

Matthew Bourne’s Lord of the Flies: when boys turn feral

18 October 2014 9:00 am

GCSE Eng Lit pupils are doing well from dance this season with two set books told in the medium of…

Turning feral: Lord of the Flies

Boys alone

16 October 2014 2:00 pm

GCSE Eng Lit pupils are doing well from dance this season with two set books told in the medium of…

Does a tart like Manon have a place in the Royal Ballet repertoire?

4 October 2014 9:00 am

What can the Royal Opera House be insinuating about its target audience? No sooner had Anna Nicole closed than Manon…

Tarts and Tchaikovsky

2 October 2014 1:00 pm

What can the Royal Opera House be insinuating about its target audience? No sooner had Anna Nicole closed than Manon…

Ballet’s super couple should stick to the classical repertoire

16 August 2014 9:00 am

Last week, the feast of long-awaited dance events on offer echoed bygone days when London life was dominated by the…

Great expectations

14 August 2014 1:00 pm

Last week, the feast of long-awaited dance events on offer echoed bygone days when London life was dominated by the…

Romeo and Juliet: a Mariinsky masterclass

9 August 2014 9:00 am

According to some textbooks, one thing the fathers of Soviet choreography hastened to remove from ballet was that awkward-looking language…

Simple pleasures

7 August 2014 1:00 pm

According to some textbooks, one thing the fathers of Soviet choreography hastened to remove from ballet was that awkward-looking language…

Perfect dancing but boringly beautiful

12 July 2014 9:00 am

Aesthetically speaking, last week’s performance by the Nederlands Dans Theater 1 was one by the slickest of the season. Fashionably…

Boringly beautiful

10 July 2014 1:00 pm

Aesthetically speaking, last week’s performance by the Nederlands Dans Theater 1 was one by the slickest of the season. Fashionably…

A swan to die for at Sadler’s Wells

28 June 2014 9:00 am

Swans, swans, more swans. If the lifespan of a dance critic were calculated by the number of performances of Swan…

No laughing matter

26 June 2014 1:00 pm

Swans, swans, more swans. If the lifespan of a dance critic were calculated by the number of performances of Swan…

Dance games from Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker at Sadler’s Wells

7 June 2014 9:00 am

Forget the pedantic classifications of genres, styles and schools. When it comes to dance performances, it all boils down to…

Thinking games

5 June 2014 1:00 pm

Forget the pedantic classifications of genres, styles and schools. When it comes to dance performances, it all boils down to…

Romeo, Juliet and Mussolini

24 May 2014 9:00 am

George Balanchine’s Serenade, the manifesto of 20th-century neoclassical choreography, requires a deep understanding of both its complex stylistic nuances and…

Balanchinian ideal

22 May 2014 1:00 pm

George Balanchine’s Serenade, the manifesto of 20th-century neoclassical choreography, requires a deep understanding of both its complex stylistic nuances and…

Modern dance vs Shakespeare

19 April 2014 9:00 am

In a dance world that has chosen to dispense with stylistic and semantic subtleties, ‘narrative ballet’ and ‘story ballet’ are…

Study in spectacle

16 April 2014 1:00 pm

In a dance world that has chosen to dispense with stylistic and semantic subtleties, ‘narrative ballet’ and ‘story ballet’ are…

European postmodern dance can be just as boring as American postmodern dance

5 April 2014 9:00 am

What’s in a definition? As far as theatre dance is concerned, quite a lot. Labelling — and often labelling for…

Visual overload

3 April 2014 2:00 pm

What’s in a definition? As far as theatre dance is concerned, quite a lot. Labelling — and often labelling for…

Roberto Bolle in ‘Le Jeune Hommeet la Mort’ at the Coliseum

Kings of Dance: a show to keep the Sun King happy

29 March 2014 9:00 am

Louis XIV might have been a narcissistic and whimsical tyrant, but he did a lot for dance. An accomplished practitioner,…

Roberto Bolle in ‘Le Jeune Hommeet la Mort’ at the Coliseum

Man power

27 March 2014 3:00 pm

Louis XIV might have been a narcissistic and whimsical tyrant, but he did a lot for dance. An accomplished practitioner,…

The dancers who said ‘no’ to postmodernism

22 March 2014 9:00 am

It all started in 1971, when a group of physically and artistically talented youngsters decided to create a dance company…

The third way

20 March 2014 3:00 pm

It all started in 1971, when a group of physically and artistically talented youngsters decided to create a dance company…

Bach is made for dancing

15 February 2014 9:00 am

It appears that J.S. Bach’s music is to theatre-dance what whipped cream is to chocolate. Masterworks such as Trisha Brown’s…