The latest news on performances of Dance in UK / West End.
Ahead of English National Ballet’s performances of Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s The Sleeping Beauty at the Royal Albert Hall, set designer Charlotte MacMillan discusses drawing on centuries of theatre design, using projection to create a sleeping palace suspended in time, and what it means to help br
The Royal Ballet's Senior Benesh Choreologist and Assistant Répétiteur Gregory Mislin and Benesh Choreologist Daniel Kraus explain how Benesh Movement Notation is used to record and restage dance works, including a Kenneth MacMillan ballet.
What did our critic think of SO ARE WE: LEÓN AND LIGHTFOOT at Royal Ballet And Opera?
Dance Umbrella and the Barbican announced the London premiere of DANCE IS NOT FOR US, a solo work by Lebanese-French choreographer Omar Rajeh of Cie Omar Rajeh & Maqamat, performed at The Pit, Barbican.
The Lilian Baylis Theatre and associated spaces next door to Sadler's Wells is full of chatter and excitement on day 2 of the Dance Digital film festival.
For as long as I’ve been a performer, I’ve been fascinated by what makes a performance compelling.
Multi-tasking seems to come easy to the American dancer, choreographer, pedagogue and artistic director Maria Caruso.
Ahead of English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer 2026, Artistic Director Aaron S.
London Children's Ballet will perform a revival of its popular narrative ballet, Anne of Green Gables.
If you know the Shakespeare play this dance version is inspired by, you'll be on board with this truncated romp through the key scenes - murder, marriage, mousetrap, nunnery, church, closet, madness, death.
At this point in the history of humanity, a ballet translated from screen to stage or built around a real person is more likely to raise eyebrows than expectations.
Birmingham Royal Ballet announced a new photo series, OUR CITY, YOUR BALLET, shot by local photographer Clive Booth, to be displayed across Birmingham, celebrating the company's ties to the city.
The Royal Ballet will present SO ARE WE, its first-ever program of works by choreographic duo Sol León and Paul Lightfoot, including a world premiere and a 20th-anniversary staging of Shoot the Moon.
Tulsa Ballet made its Linbury Theatre debut last night, and the dancers of the company made a strong impression.
Rosas return to Sadler's Wells for the UK premiere of Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione, a choreographic collaboration between De Keersmaeker and Radouan Mriziga of collective A7LA5.
A Good Man is Hard to Find could be the title of a very inoffensive romcom, but in fact it's the latest work from the avant-garde duo BULLYACHE.
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, otherwise known as the Trocks, are back at Sadler’s Wells as part of their National tour of a mixed bill until 6 May.
The Royal Ballet and Opera will unveil new stage curtains at a landmark Gala performance featuring dancers, operatic soloists, and a rediscovered Kenneth MacMillan pas de deux believed lost since 1984.
There was something in the air on Friday night…and it wasn't just pollen! One could describe it as the school show of all school shows - but that might be doing it a disservice.
Dance Umbrella revealed the first show of its 2026 festival: Not For Glory, a dance-theatre gig combining Highland dance, Irish dance, and live piping, co-presented with the English Folk Dance & Song Society and The Place.
Carlos Acosta’s favourite ballet full of Spanish sun and slapstick humour is a very silly story.
Sir Wayne McGregor was appointed Resident Choreographer of the Royal Ballet in 2006, the first from a contemporary dance background, and here we are 20 years later acknowledging that fact with a triple bill of his work for the company called Alchemies.
The Linbury Theatre at the Royal Ballet and Opera felt transformed last night for the opening of International Draft Works 2026 - but not always by the choreography.
This June, Phoenix Dance Theatre will return following their sell-out 2025 production Inside Giovanni's Room, presenting a new mixed bill, Interplay, running at Sadler's Wells East.
The winners of the 2025 BroadwayWorld Stage Recording Awards have been revealed, celebrating outstanding achievements in theatrical and performance-based recordings released during the 2025 calendar year.
Royal Ballet and Opera announced its 2026/27 Season, featuring 10 new opera productions including PARSIFAL, GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG, and LA GIOCONDA, plus ballet masterworks and Wayne McGregor's 20th anniversary.
BALLET NIGHTS 011: CONVERGENCE will take place April 29th at Cadogan Hall in London, featuring Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's UK debut, Taiwan's B.
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo has moved its London performances to Sadler’s Wells Theatre.
This is the final chance to vote the 2025 BroadwayWorld Stage Recording Awards, celebrating outstanding achievements in theatrical and performance-based recordings released during the 2025 calendar year.
English National Ballet and English National Ballet School present a national tour of MY FIRST BALLET: CINDERELLA, a family-friendly adaptation of the classic story designed for young audiences.
Mayerling is an experience - let no one tell you otherwise.
The Royal Ballet will present INTERNATIONAL DRAFT WORKS at the Royal Opera House in London.
RICHARD CHAPPELL DANCE will present the premiere of Us Folk at Sterts Arts & Environmental Centre on June 10 and Exeter Northcott on June 16, 2026, exploring community and folk culture.
English National Ballet’s new Sadler’s Wells programme includes just two works.
What makes work interesting? What it is? How it makes you feel? That's the million dollar question I suppose…and one that Alexander Whitley's work continues to ask.
Perhaps New York City Ballet Principal, Tiler Peck should rename her self curated programme Turn it On
Mary, Queen of Scots, is a remarkable piece of work, offering pointed comment on the place of women in the sixteenth-century court and on the mythology that casts Mary as a martyr.
Voting is now open for the 2025 BroadwayWorld Stage Recording Awards, celebrating outstanding achievements in theatrical and performance-based recordings released during the 2025 calendar year.
Sci-fi, like most things, is an acquired taste, and not something you often find related to dance.
English National Ballet has released rehearsal photos for BODY & SOUL, a new double bill featuring Crystal Pite’s Body and Soul (Part 1) and the world premiere of Proper Conduct by Kameron N.
