Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Crystal Pite tore the house down: Royal Opera's 21st-Century Choreographers reviewed
The choreographers called on to get the nation’s dancers back on to the stage have as much to say about…
No one understood the ennui of lockdown better than Louis XIV and his courtiers
A few years ago I interviewed an eminent baroque conductor. Prickly and professorial, tired after a day of rehearsals, he…
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s #MeToo Medusa is a bad hair day from Hades
Medusa is the bad hair day from Hades. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s retelling of the Greek myth is frizzy, tangled and…
Pretty vacant
Alice is at it again. Christopher Wheeldon’s 2011 three-act ballet began another sell-out run at Covent Garden last week. It’s…
The choreographer that does things to tango couples that Relate would not recommend
I often regret that I’m writing in the past tense here, but never more than about milonga. It is such…
Ballet’s super couple should stick to the classical repertoire
Last week, the feast of long-awaited dance events on offer echoed bygone days when London life was dominated by the…
Natalia Osipova interview: ‘I'm not interested in diamond tiaras on stage’
Giannandrea Poesio talks to Natalia Osipova about her ballet-based philosophy
A swan to die for at Sadler’s Wells
Swans, swans, more swans. If the lifespan of a dance critic were calculated by the number of performances of Swan…
