BrainCan - dance

monumental review - everything s turned up

Playhouse,EdinburghDance company Holy Body Tattoo and cult band Godspeed You! Black Emperor combine...

breakin convention review - hip hop squads invade...

Sadler’s Wells,LondonThe annual festival delivers style and substance, from the Ruggeds’ goofy...

cloud gate: making dance out of martial arts and...

The Cloud Gate dance company occupies a unique place in Taiwanese society and its founder has become...

anne teresa de keersmaeker review - the squeak of...

Tate contemporary,LondonThe Turbine corridor is a suitably austere fit for Anne Teresa De...

jekyll hyde review - rock n roll swagger

Drew McOnie delivers skilful storytelling and terrific dancing with an inspired Jekyll and Hyde set...

juliet and romeo review - star crossed lovers try...

Battersea Arts Centre,LondonIn Ben Duke and Lost Dog’s smart, wryly subversive and sexy...

murder, menopause and a boy who barks: the...

When the iconoclastic choreographer reinvented herself as a film-maker at the turn of the 70s,she...

wheeldon mcgregor bausch review - a happy...

Palais Garnier,ParisThe Paris Opera Ballet celebrates Pierre Boulez’s 90th birthday with a strong...

canalside choreography: how the biennale got...

A quietly radical dance programme in the Italian city has included performances at boat...

meg stuart: until our hearts stop review - like a...

Sadler’s Wells,LondonSix dancers strip and grapple with abandon in this Bauschian retract on...

national dance company wales review - primordial...

The Place,London An intriguing triple bill offers disjointed romance and passionate storybook tales,...

bartabas and andres marin: golgota review - a...

Sadler’s Wells,LondonThis beguiling unique work by the equestrian-dance maverick (an independent,...

sharabi cunningham review - shades of blue and a...

Lilian Baylis theatre,LondonIdan Sharabi is inspired by the music of Joni Mitchell, while Claire...

how can we give female choreographers a lift? join...

For the last decade,too few women have received tall-profile dance commissions and flee big...

luke jennings s best dance of 2017

Ballet felt a microscopic flatfooted as contemporary dance caught the shape-shifting spirit of our...

rosemary butcher obituary

Influential choreographer and teacher who used improvisation in both the creation and performance of...

elizabeth review - will tuckett rules with tudor...

Linbury Studio,LondonZenaida Yanowsky rises to the title role and Carlos Acosta brings wit to his...

gravity fatigue review - catwalk like rhythm...

Sadler’s Wells,LondonThe virtuoso invention of Hussein Chalayan’s first dance work frequently...

les ballets trockadero de monte carlo review -...

Peacock theatre,LondonThe symbols, style and struggles of ballet underpin this disarming blend of...

sugarplum sensations: the best dance shows this...

Matthew Bourne brings back his Blitz-set Cinderella,Arthur Pita presents The Little Match Girl with...

giselle review - muntagirov and nunez display...

Royal Opera House,LondonThe acting is superb and the dancing has genuine authority in Peter...

ballet cymru review - cerys matthews joins dancers...

Lilian Baylis Studio,LondonThe singer makes a major contribution to a show inspired by her album of...

no body review - radiant choreography of light and...

Sadler’s Wells,LondonNitin Sawhney, Michael Hulls and Lucy Carter contain created virtuosic...

dancing out of poverty in south africa

Dane Hurst escaped township life to become a dancer with the Rambert in London. Now he’s bringing...

who killed bambi?; kaleidoscopic arts - review

DanceEast,Ipswich; Galvanisers Union, LondonRenaud Wiser’s seize on the Snowden affair has more...

nora invites review - dance double act reveal a...

Lilian Baylis Studio,London[br]The flawed batch of new works brings out chameleon talents and by the...

men girls dance: the show fighting paranoia...

Fevered Sleep’s display features men dancing tenderly with young girls. Its creators explain how...

sylvie guillem: i dont want to think about my last...

She was Rudolf Nureyev’s greatest protege and he nurtured her to stardom. Now,after four decades,...

louise lecavalier: i am a show off in the studio....

The Canadian modern dancer explains how she conquered the terror of performing – and how she’s...

gotta dance! a day in the life of broadway star...

What’s it like to perform in a razzle-dazzle unusual York musical? Exhilarating and...

alexander whitley: pattern recognition review -...

Platform theatre,LondonLights respond to the dancers movements in Whitley’s intriguing work,...

resolution review - jazzy jumps and froggy squats...

The state,LondonCrystal Zillwood saved the uneven opening night of this six-week festival for new...

twerking, waltzing and daggering - the dances...

A Mississippi bounce concert was called off over concerns from the authorities approximately...

passion, pain and picasso: the ballet bringing his...

The Three Dancers is widely seen as a painting full of hate and violence,inspired by the shootings...

body_remix goldberg_variations; gustavia; susan...

Sex on crutches? It can only be the work of Canadian controversialist Marie ChouinardMarie Chouinard...

snow white review - fleet footed family dance show...

Sadler’s Wells,LondonCarol Ann Duffy’s clever return to the original fairytale says much about...

ballet black: triple bill review - arthur pitas...

Barbican,LondonCira Robinson and Mthuthuzeli November enact courtship to music by Steve Reich in...

ratmanskys royal flush: the most authentic...

The Russian choreographer’s production at Milan’s La Scala brings Petipa’s 1890 ballet back to...

our land people stories review - triple bill...

Near operatic storytelling and inspiring music bewitch Bangarra’s brilliant effort on a journey...

cowpuncher review - dance outlaws wear vivienne...

Queen Elizabeth Hall,LondonThe fleet-footed outsiders in Holly Blakey’s subversive unique piece...

mark bruce company: the odyssey review - homer on...

Wilton’s Music corridor,LondonBruce’s adaptation of the epic tale has boogieing skeletons, an...

i would have jumped off a roof for mao: how li...

Forced into ballet as a child in Mao’s China,Li Cunxin defected to the US and had to work as a...

its great when you skate: how ice dance became...

This seasons ice shows offer sequins,fireworks and dancers dressed as Disney characters but there...

swan lake ii: dark waters review - sidetracked by...

Chelsea theatre,LondonJoseph Mercier reimagines Swan Lake as one man’s struggle with the (naked)...

aakash odedra review - reflections on dyslexia in...

The Place,LondonA tall-tech exploration of Odedra’s own struggles with learning difficulty creates...

touch wood review - explosive and enigmatic

The site,LondonTouch Wood tantalises with works in progress that use Faust, MTV’s The Grind and...

go with the flow: the mesmerising moves of russell...

With a dance version of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol,a collaboration with Greek composer Vangelis...

nederlands dans theater 2 review - wistful beauty...

Sadler’s Wells,LondonThe junior wing of Nederlands Dans Theater beget poise, speed and accuracy:...

english national ballet: she said review - frida...

Sadler’s Wells,LondonA programme of three ballets by three women choreographers is a campaigning...

russell maliphant company review - tripping in the...

Sadler’s Wells,LondonConceal | Reveal features Spiral Pass, one of Maliphant’s finest, or most...

interview with us tap dancer will gaines: archive,...

Gaines has a quip about how he started tapping: ‘Well,I was sittin there doin nothin with these...

dancing with diggers: the show in which jcbs take...

Motionhouse’s unique production,Fragile, turns a machine that is often perceived as ungainly into...

richard alston dance company review - stillness,...

Sadler’s Wells,LondonAlston’s latest programme is a touching testament to his half century in...

as you dance it: brian eno and anne teresa de...

In the show Golden Hours,featuring tracks from Eno’s Another Green World and choreography by De...

cheri review - colettes novellas become a dance of...

Linbury Studio,LondonAlessandra Ferri moves from skittish passion to harrowing, haggard defeat in...

35 amici drive review - ambitious spectacle from...

Lyric Hammersmith,London Residents of a towerblock fight developers in Wolfgang Stange’s latest,...

new york flashmob ready to dance hillary clinton...

Two artists who met on the set of Girls used their ‘pantsuit power’ to organize a live dance and...

betroffenheit review - from trauma, a savage...

Sadler’s Wells,LondonCrystal Pite fashions unflinching art from genuine-life tragedy in this...

keir award 2016: where is the dance in...

The Keir Choreographic award showcases the preoccupations of the Australian industry:...

golden hours (as you like it) review - time drags...

Sadler’s Wells,LondonAnne Teresa de Keersmaeker blends the Bard and Brian Eno in an abstract point...

hubert essakow: terra review - new ben okri poem...

Print Room at the Coronet,LondonDancers’ limbs twist and thread in this highly atmospheric...

shobana jeyasingh review - classical dance meets...

Queen Elizabeth Hall,LondonA vibrant double bill draws on hybridity and migration, as two dancers of...

the 7 fingers: triptyque review - dreamlike dance...

Sadler’s Wells,London[br]It’s visually arresting, with performers on crutches, or bodies with...

voces, suite flamenca review - barass virtuosity...

Some thrilling footwork and extraordinary singing in Sara Baras’s flamenco homage isnt enough to...

tavaziva review - energetic african carmen loses...

The plot,London[br]In this retelling of the classic story, transposed to an oil plant, or the...

voronia review - you have nothing to lose but your...

Sadler’s Wells,LondonThe worlds deepest cave is a metaphor for hell in La Veronals arcane but...

emma john discovers what ballet does to a dancers...

Some cover their feet in glue,others slice at them with razor blades ... Emma John discovers what...

jerome bel: gala review - this show reminds us how...

Sadler’s Wells,LondonIn Bel’s riveting piece, a mixed-ability cast of 20 moonwalk, and waltz and...

binari at edinburgh festival review - dancing of...

Assembly Hall,EdinburghBased on the songs and dances of traditional Korean funeral rites, this...

richard alston dance company review - scarlattis...

Sadler’s Wells,London Alston spins a hybrid of kathak and classical dance styles from the...

immortal tango review - pvc, power ballads and a...

Peacock theatre,London Featuring music from Abba, Coolio and the film Titanic, and this frenetic...

dancer xander parish: its relentless. i did 50...

In the first of a new series exploring dancers’ lives,Xander Parish of the Mariinsky Ballet gets...

anne teresa de keersmaeker review - dancers send...

Tate contemporary,London Showcased in the gallery’s vast Turbine Hall, the arcs and eddies of the...

natalia osipova review - duets with sergei polunin...

Sadler’s Wells,LondonBallet’s golden couple journey into contemporary dance with a world...

jekyll and hyde review - potions, motion and...

broken-down Vic,Londonsection Robert Louis Stevenson, section Little Shop of Horrors, and the McOnie...

then we take berlin - with erotic aerial antics...

Jemima Rose Dean,a cast member of ‘full-on’ stage show The Wyld, talks about dancing in sparkly...

phoenix dance theatre review - dark, deviant...

Linbury studio,London The Leeds-based company marks 35 years with a triple bill kicking off with...

out of india: modern moves review - choreographers...

Barbican,LondonThree eye-opening dance pieces by emerging Indian talents blend classical and...

illicit worlds of indian dance review - high camp...

Rich Mix,LondonClassical Indian dance meets Bollywood drag in a night of tradition and...

betroffenheit review - human suffering transformed...

Sadler’s Wells,LondonJonathon Young and Crystal Pite collaborate to turn a traumatising experience...

la dance project review - millepied goes for some...

Sadler’s Wells,LondonBenjamin Millepied’s young company asserts itself as a future force in...

sasha waltz guests review - savage rites marshal...

Sadler’s Wells,London Waltz’s triple bill is over-stylised at times, but her version of The Rite...

walking stories: how i swapped the dance studio...

A hike into mountains on a summer’s day led me to choreograph a group audio walk for parks....

motion captured: five of the best dance...

From postcards of ballerinas to digital shots where the performers barely witness human,the art of...

the french dancers for whom age is no barrier

Passing the age of 40 once meant it was time to quit,but many performers now continue to dance well...

until the lions review - akram khans cosmic dance...

Roundhouse,LondonWith this arresting take on an episode from the Mahabharata, Khan creates an epic...

tamara rojo on romeo and juliet: you know the...

In our series to stamp the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death,actors, directors, or...

fears and frustrations of modern india told...

Dance Umbrella’s Out of India programme unites modern choreographers who are crossing...

live stream: step into rambert dance companys...

On Wednesday 14 October,Rambert will throw open its doors: watch a morning class and rehearsals for...

tanztheater wuppertal pina bausch review - a new...

Wuppertal Opera HouseSix years after its founder’s death,the Bausch company finally opens up to...

material men: steps behind the dance

Dancers Sooraj Subramaniam and Shailesh Bahoran walk us through the rehearsal process: creating a...

sasha waltz guests: continu - review

Sadler's Wells,LondonSasha Waltz has orchestrated some of the most extraordinary spectacles on...

wayne mcgregor: autobiography review - a mind...

Sadler’s Wells,LondonBeginning by sequencing his own genome, the maverick (an independent,...

brooklyn based ballez is a dance company that...

Brooklyn-based Ballez is a dance company that reworks classic tales to “insert the herstory of...

frida kahlos brush with ballet: tamara rojo dances...

The much Mexican painter is the subject of one of three original works choreographed by women for...

the unmissable dance shows of autumn 2015

Francesca Annis and Hussein Chalayan execute their debuts,Carlos Acosta does Carmen, and Dance...

giselle review - akram khans bewitching ballet is...

Palace theatre,ManchesterIn a unusual version of the classic for English National Ballet, Khan give...

richard alston dance company review - a match made...

Sadler’s Wells,London Richard Alston weds Indian classicism to European courtliness in one of the...

countermove review - sydney dance company double...

Roslyn Packer Theatre,SydneyA lively satire of the pomposity of the dance world is well paired with...

national dance awards 2015 nominations: ice dance,...

This year’s award nominations are impressively diverse,with excellent independents vying with the...

lea anderson: ladies and gentlemen review - a...

The Place,London[br]Anderson’s topsy-turvy show approximately vaudeville has-beens sails close to...

dance studios tap into the la la land phenomenon

Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone’s multi-awardwinning film has got people queuing up to tap dance their...

have fun watching this video of people dancing in...

The week is half over so it’s approximately time to start getting loose for a summer weekend and...

xavier le roy on performing naked: everybody is...

The French biologist turned choreographer on media fascination with his story and his current...

care to dance? the secret tribes who make weekends...

Forget regular clubbing. A hidden social network of nights where anyone can salsa,swing or tango is...

care to dance? meet the saturday swingers who want...

Forget regular clubbing. A hidden social network of nights where anyone can salsa,swing or tango is...

scottish dance theatre review - menace and...

Traverse,EdinburghFrom Anton Lachky’s cartoonish Dreamers to Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar’s sensual...

a nation of dancers: 10 years of the big dance in...

The Big Dance has been getting the general public moving for a decade. But its greatest achievement...

leonard lopate weekend: trump university, tap...

First, Steve Brill discusses his latest story for Time magazine approximately the secrets,...

xavier le roy on performing naked: everybody is...

The French biologist turned choreographer on media fascination with his chronicle and new six-hour...

decadence review - batsheva dance company back...

State theatre,Melbourne festivalA 15-year wait cannot dampen Melbourne’s enthusiam for the Israeli...

this week s best dance

Dance Umbrella | The Royal Ballet Double BillThis may be the most wide-reaching festival in...

how hussein chalayan fashioned a dance where...

The fashion designer has worked in dance before,but Gravity Fatigue is the first show he has devised...

jasmin vardimon: pinocchio review - joyous new...

Sadler’s Wells,LondonVardimon’s choreography is superbly performed and complemented by crafty...

vamos cuba! review - tedious, cliched and not...

Sadler’s Wells,LondonNilda Guerra’s feeble attempt to portray the spirit of her country reduces...

judith mackrells top 10 dance of 2015

Wayne McGregor distilled the essence of Virginia Woolf while others tackled Milton and Samuel...

rambert: love, art and rocknroll review - stylish...

Sadler’s Wells,LondonA supremely confident triple bill combines a intelligent response to...

may contain food review - meat arias and rice...

The position,LondonFoodie culture is carved up gloriously in this lip-smacking fusion of song,...

marc brew company: for now, i am… review - a...

Lilian Baylis Studio,London[br]In a powerful, poetic work, and Marc Brew traces how he returned to...

matthew bournes sleeping beauty review - the...

Sadler’s Wells,LondonBourne’s imagination thrives where others fail and his reinventions – a...

festival aims to reboot community traditions of...

London-based Dance Umbrella will feature Of Riders and Running Horses,which celebrates communal...

triptych review - arthur rimbauds homoeroticism...

Roslyn Packer Theatre,Sydney[br]A roll call of big name artists come together for this Sydney Dance...

contemporary dance company ate9 dance hopes to...

modern dance company Ate9 dANCE hopes to bring a fourth season to Los Angeles,proudly contributing...

its time for myself: the teen carers dancing for...

Teenage primary care-givers will perform a curtain-raiser for Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty at...

leonard lopate weekend: spotlight, the republican...

Tom McCarthy discusses directing and co-writing the acclaimed film"highlight." BuzzFeed's...

the moulin rouge has an army of dressers - we cant...

Our series on dancers’ lives continues with Isabelle Van Den Bergh’s day at the Parisian...

of riders and running horses review - an exuberant...

NCP Car Park Farringdon,LondonDan Canham’s fresh and deliciously convincing mashup of lilting...

aditi mangaldas dance company: inter_rupted review...

Barbican,London [br]The striking movements of classical Indian dance produce many arresting images...

john boyega is a great dancer, of course, and can...

John Boyega is a billion threat! It's kind of like a triple threat,but instead of three...

walking stories review - a treasure hunt danced...

Greenwich Park,London Charlotte Spencer’s journey is more than a choreographed nature trail, as...

too fat for fitness? not when youre roz the diva,...

The award-winning pole dancer has survived an elitist fitness industry and a impolite awakening from...

the enigmatic josephine baker interview:...

From a banana-clad dancer at the Folies Bergère to a Croix de Guerre from De Gaulle himself,Tim...

fagins twist review - hip hop dickens show is full...

The Place,LondonStreet dance meets Victorian workhouse as choreographer Tony Adigun imagines the...

kaash review - akram khan and anish kapoor conjure...

Sadler’s Wells,LondonThe choreographer yokes Hindu theology to theoretical physics, creating a...

moves from the mahabharata: akram khans until the...

With his modern dance spectacular,Akram Khan has returned to the story of an unsung heroine from the...

movers and shakers: the unmissable dance shows of...

Power couple Osipova and Polunin burn up the stage,the Windsors do Swan Lake, Jane Eyre becomes a...

choreographer martha graham is known as one of the...

[img_102][img_104]Choreographer Martha Graham is known as one of the brilliant innovators of the...

that s chicago!

I’m coming to the conclude of my run in CHICAGO,the musical, on Broadway. Any fans out there...

djuki mala review - playful yolngu dance numbers...

Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent,Sydney festivalArnhem Land troupe previously known as the Chooky Dancers...

ham and passion review - funny, sexy and...

DeNada Dance Theatre’s smart meditations on sexual identity and machismo could teach larger...

live stream: watch ramberts day of dance and...

Join us on Wednesday 14 October to watch Rambert’s dancers in action as the company opens its...

from the jan. 24, 1955 cover story storied isles...

From the Jan. 24,1955 cover story - STORIED ISLES OF ROMANCE IN THE SOUTH SEAS. The photo essay...

benjamin millepied resigns from paris opera ballet

Black Swan choreographer,who took over France’s prestigious ballet company in 2014, has quitStar...

benjamin millepied on one year at the paris opera...

When it was announced in early 2013 that Benjamin Millepied would steal over the Paris Opera Ballet...

into the groove: how we taught madonna to krump...

The Queen of Pop has always expressed herself through her moves. But who shows Madonna the steps?...

memorial show for dancer jonathan ollivier who...

Choreographer Matthew Bourne will host an evening of performances,from Rambert, Northern Ballet and...

jonathan ollivier performing in swan lake -...

Jonathan Ollivier performs in Swan Lake on ANT1 TV,with Sam Archer, while on tour in Greece in 2010....

juste debout: the worlds biggest street dance...

Dancers from all over the world compete in the international tour of Juste Debout in the hope that...

australian student given scholarship to become...

Australian schoolgirl Stephanie Kurlow’s vision to become the world’s first hijab-wearing...

and now, extreme dancing

The documentary "OXD: One Extraordinary Day" brings us choreographer Elizabeth Streb and her dance...

the politics of dancing: world leaders show off...

From Justin Trudeau’s Punjabi folk dancing to Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s on-the-spot...

cuban heels: carlos acosta at the royal ballet -...

Carlos Acosta,whose adaptation of Bizet’s Carmen is currently packing them in at Covent Garden,...

ballet laid bare: matthew brookes intimate photos...

The photo book Les Danseurs is the result of a year that photographer Matthew Brookes spent with...

chevaux must go on: behind the scenes at bartabass...

With a cast of four horses and a donkey,trainer and impresario Bartabas creates remarkable...

akram khan talks to danny boyle: everything has to...

Film and theatre director Danny Boyle discusses inspirations and ambitions with Until the Lions...

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