A Shakespeare classic collides with modernity as Carlos Curates: R&J Reimagined
Birmingham Royal Ballet and Rosie Kay Dance Company. Indie rock and ballet. In Brum. And it was absolutely riveting.
Paper play: Club Origami
Takeshi Matsumoto’s interactive and immersive dance show for the under-5s and their grown-ups that puts the emphasis on creativity through play
Dance for young people: Children & their Grown-Ups Showcase
A look at the showcase that aimed to stimulate interest in dance shows for children and families, and to learn about, find and develop new work
An intimate delve into Soho’s underbelly: Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell
The world of showbiz falls away and the dancers present the fragmented tales that lurk in Soho’s underbelly
Birmingham Royal Ballet: Romeo and Juliet
With Momoko Horata and César Morales. BRB did the ballet proud, dancing finely and making the spine tingle in all the right places.
Singapore Dance Theatre returns with Masterpiece in Motion
Poignant reminders of dance’s ability to create universes with earthly moorings but lined with stardust
World Ballet Day includes the largest ever global dance challenge, Jump for Joy
With close to 50 global companies taking part (see below for the latest list), World Ballet Day 2021 on Tuesday October 19 will be the biggest yet
The Place Korean Season: Company SIGA
A double bill of works startlingly new, meticulously structured given in performances that were exhausting, amazing and entertaining
Witty, candid, sobering: Georgina Pazcoguin’s Swan Dive
Pazcoguin writes with eviscerating directness and a fiendish sense of humour that perhaps offers a certain distance from the darkness of her material
At one with its site: Shobana Jeyasingh’s TooMortal returns
Six dancers in bright red rise out of a sea of pews, folding backwards: a bird’s eye view of six women sleeping
A dancer, impresario and femme fatale remembers: Ida Rubinstein – The Final Act
Fraud, femme fatale or fallen star? In many ways, dancer and impresario Ida Rubinstein was all three as Christian Holder’s play confirms