Review: LUNAR HALO, CLOUD GATE DANCE THEATRE, Sadler's Wells
I’ve never seen a lunar halo – a sparkling ring around the moon – so the fact that Cheng Tsung-lung’s work of the same name uses it as a premise is indeed intriguing.
UK / West End Dance News Coverage — Page 7
The latest news on performances of Dance in UK / West End.
Northern Ballet's ROMEO AND JULIET Will Tour UK in 2024
Northern Ballet will bring their award-winning Romeo & Juliet back to the stage in spring 2024 after an absence of over 16 years.
VIDEO: Watch The Royal Ballet Celebrate The Legacy of Nijinska with Extended Insight
The Royal Ballet has released the full video from an extended Insight to celebrate the innovative creative genius of Bronislava Nijinska.
Review: YOUNG ASSOCIATES MIXED BILL, Sadler's Wells
Sadler’s Wells is a busy old place, with numerous performance spaces, departments and associated initiatives.
Review: RAMBERT / BEN DUKE - DEATH TRAP, Sadler's Wells
Two very different performances, Cerberus and Goat, from Rambert, deliver a meta dance comedy exploring life, death and performance.
Review: RHIANNON FAITH COMPANY: LAY DOWN YOUR BURDENS, Barbican
Rhiannon Faith Company premieres Lay Down Your Burdens at the Barbican Centre, another “socially conscious” work to add to their ever-growing portfolio
Review: THE DANTE PROJECT, Royal Opera House
With a potent and varied score from Thomas Adès, vibrant choreography from Wayne McGregor, and intruguing design from Tacita Dean, The Dante Project captures the attention despite the assumption audiences know who's who in this revered Italian narrative poem.
Review: LOVETRAIN2020, EMANUEL GAT, Sadler's Wells
LOVETRAIN2020 by Emanuel Gat started promisingly: atmospheric lighting, shafts of layered space and glimpses of new romantic courtiers bedecked in asymmetrical, louche garbs.
Review: PIONEERS, BALLET BLACK, Royal Opera House
Ballet Black return to the Royal Opera House, Linbury Theatre with their double bill Pioneers.
Review: RE:BIRTH, VAN HUYNH COMPANY, The Place
It seems unfathomable that a dance company has been based in London for 15 years and I've never seen their work before.
Fuerza Bruta Returns to London With AVEN in 2024
After 10 long years, Fuerza Bruta is finally returning to its London home - the Roundhouse - with its incredible new show – AVEN, a rollercoaster ride of euphoria, optimism and desire beyond the imagination.
Review: NUTCRACKER, Tuff Nutt Jazz Club, Southbank Centre
Every Christmas we are promised a 'new take' on either Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker and Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
Review: ZONA FRANCA, Southbank Centre
Welcome to Zona Franca, a show created by Brazilian choreographer Alice Ripoll and dance company Cia Suave that does its level best to defy being pigeonholed.
Review: NEW ENGLISH BALLET THEATRE: GENESIS DANCE PROJECT AND NEW WORKS, Sadler's Wells
New English Ballet Theatre is in its 13th year as a company and presents a mixed programme at the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells that's also a rather mixed bag…
UK Premiere of INK Comes to Sadler's Wells Theatre
Greek director, choreographer, and visual artist Dimitris Papaioannou returns to Sadler’s Wells Theatre with the UK premiere of INK from Wednesday 28 February - Saturday 2 March 2024.
Review: GENERATIONS: THREE SHORT BALLETS, Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House
Northern Ballet presents the Generations: Three Short Ballets triple bill at the Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House as part of its national tour this autumn.
British And International Soloists Announced For THE NUTCRACKER, SWAN LAKE & SLEEPING BEAUTY UK Tour
Raymond Gubbay Limited has announced the British and international soloists for Varna International Ballet and Orchestra who will be touring in early 2024, as part of their return to UK after a hugely successful debut in 2023.
Review: MALEVO, Peacock Theatre
Bang-bang-bang.
Review: MAUD LE PLADEC-TWENTY-SEVEN PERSPECTIVES, Sadler's Wells
I wonder why London has had to wait five whole years to see this extremely worthwhile piece?
London City Ballet Returns Under The Artistic Direction Of Christopher Marney
After a hiatus of almost 30 years, the London City Ballet will return to the stage again under the direction of Christopher Marney, former dancer, and director of the Joffrey Ballet Studio Company of Chicago.
Royal Academy Of Dance Reveals Winners Of The Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition 2023
The Royal Academy of Dance has announced the medallists of the Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition 2023 final at His Majesty's Theatre in London.
Review: THE LIMIT, Royal Opera House
A play about the limits of language ought to easily translate into a ballet.
Greenwich Dance Announces Closure Due To Funding Issues
Greenwich Dance has announced it will close at the end of the year, due to a withdrawal of funding from the Royal Borough of Greenwich and an unsuccessful National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) application to Arts Council England in 2022.
Review: ANEMOI/THE CELLIST, Royal Opera House
The Royal Ballet presents revivals of two contrasting yet sublime one act ballets.
VIDEO: Watch the Trailer for the Royal Opera House Live's THE NUTCRACKER
Watch the trailer for the Royal Opera House's The Nutcracker in cinemas from Tuesday 12 December 2023 at 7.
Review: BLACK SABBATH - THE BALLET, Sadler's Wells
A stunning celebration of the music of Birmingham legends Black Sabbath performed by the Birmingham Royal Ballet.
Review: POCKETART COLLECTIVE/LOUISE ORWIN DOUBLE BILL, The Place
Autumn at The Place continues with a double bill featuring the Prague-based Pocketart Collective with The Lion’s Den and Louise Orwin's Famehungry.
Academy Breakin' Convention Reveals Head Of School and Callout For Applications
Applications open today for Academy Breakin' Convention, the new hip hop theatre school that's one of the major initiatives at Sadler's Wells' fourth London venue, Sadler's Wells East, due to open next year as part of the East Bank development in Stratford's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Review: MOS, IOANNA PARASKEVOPOULOU, Barbican Centre
Foley artists don’t often get moments to shine - step forward Athens based dancer and choreographer Ioanna Paraskevopoulou with her work MOS presented by Dance Umbrella.
Review: SONG OF SONGS, PAM TANOWITZ, Barbican Theatre
Song of Songs premiered in 2022 and now has its London opening at the Barbican Centre.
Review: SEA OF TROUBLES, Screening, Royal Opera House
Kenneth MacMillan was renowned for being a major film buff, so we can assume he’d revel in his 1988 work Sea of Troubles being transferred to the big screen
Review: MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE, Peacock Theatre
If using the relaxing music of dinner party favourite Sting as the basis for a wild and inventive hip hop dance show isn’t an act of iconoclastic bravado, then what is?
Review: CHANGE TEMPO, DANCE UMBRELLA, The Place
Dance Umbrella present their international double-bill Change Tempo with SU PinWen and Alexandre Fandard.
Review: MÁM, MICHAEL KEEGAN-DOLAN, Sadler's Wells
A mega night at the theatre.
The Royal Ballet, The Australian Ballet and San Francisco Ballet Celebrate #WorldBalletDay With 60 Companies Around the World
On Wednesday 1 November, The Royal Ballet, The Australian Ballet and San Francisco Ballet celebrate a decade of #WorldBalletDay.
Review: CAN THIS PLACE BE A TEMPLE? AKSHAY SHARMA, The Place
Everyone loves a thinker, and Akshay Sharma definitely seems to be one.
Review: DON QUIXOTE, Royal Opera House
Marianela Nuñez and Vadim Muntagirov sizzle in a crowdpleasing revival of the Royal Ballet's 2013 production
Guest Blog: 'Dance is a Very Queer Space': Dancer Zinzi Minott on her New Solo Show BLACK ON BLACK at Sadler's Wells
Black on Black is my solo dance performance that explores queerness, Blackness and the body as an archive.
Review: THE YELLOW WALLPAPER, The Coronet Theatre
Stephanie Mohr’s new production of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s feminist novella The Yellow Wallpaper is described as a “genre-defying production blending theatre, dance, live video and sound” - no pressure then!
Royal Academy Of Dance Acquires Dancing Times Photographic Archive
Leading dance and teaching organisation Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) has acquired Dancing Times' photographic archive.