Ballet BC brings a programme of cutting-edge contemporary dance by Crystal Pite and Johan Inger to Sadler’s Wells Vancouver-based Ballet BC (British Columbia) is Canada’s foremost contemporary dance company. Its stated aim is “to create dance at its most essential:…
A Night With Boy Blue: Generation Blue showcased the power and influence of hip hop across the UK A Night With Boy Blue – Generation Blue was a joyous show, proof, if proof were needed, of just how far this…
Jane Eyre brings Charlotte Brontë’s novel to the ballet stage courtesy of choreographer Cathy Marston and Northern Ballet Charlotte Brontë’s 19th century Romantic novel, with its triumphant cry of “Reader, I married him!” is justly admired for the character of…
Ballet to Broadway is a Royal Ballet mixed bill highlighting the talent and versatility of choreographer Christopher Wheeldon Ballet to Broadway fairly describes Christopher Wheeldon’s artistic path from dancer with Royal Ballet and then New York City Ballet, through dance maker…
Carlos Acosta’s The Maiden of Venice re-imagines a “problematic” classic, the ballet La Bayadère, for his BRB company The Maiden of Venice, as Carlos Acosta has named his re-imagined La Bayadère, will, he hopes, sidestep the problems raised by the…
Rambert x (LA) HORDE, a timely collaboration, offers a pulsating, if uneven, triple bill at the QEH, Southbank Rambert is the UK’s foremost contemporary dance company and under the direction of Benoit Swan Pouffer an increasingly daring, inquisitive, boundary-busting outfit.…
BRB2, the junior company of Birmingham Royal Ballet, pays homage to Diaghilev in its brand new touring programme The early 20th century Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev, whose Ballets Russes took Paris by storm, was key to the development of ballet…
Matsena reimagines the first recorded murder in human history in the intense two-hander KABEL at Sadler’s Wells East Why did Cain kill his brother Abel? The Bible doesn’t exactly give chapter and verse on the reasons behind the first human…
Breakin’ Convention, the annual hip hop festival, brings crews from the UK and continental Europe to Sadler’s Wells Breakin’ Convention is a three-day jamboree of everything that falls under the loose hip hop umbrella: dancing and creative workshops, demonstrations, DJ…
London Sinfonietta and Sasha Waltz and Guests joined forces in In C, part of the Southbank Multitudes Festival The American composer Terry Riley’s In C is made up of 53 musical phrases to be played in a system of collective…
Ballet Position goes behind the scenes at London Children’s Ballet to witness the creation of its new show I sense a buzz of excitement as I approach a squat, nondescript building tucked away in a South London side street on…
BalletLORENT tours Snow White: The Sacrifice, a visceral, hard-hitting, strictly for grown-ups treatment of the famous fairy tale We tend to think of fairy tales as pretty, cosy stories well suited to the imagination and sensitivities of children, their endings…