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Like Water for Chocolate, Royal Ballet review - splendid dancing and sets, but there's too much plot
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Christopher Wheeldon has mined a new seam of narrative pieces for the Royal Ballet, having started out as a supreme practitioner of the abstract.…
Jenny Gilbert
It was the absence of performing animals that defined it in the 1980s, but contemporary circus has come a long way since. Cirque Éloize, a smallish…
How to be a Dancer in 72,000 Easy Lessons, Teaċ Daṁsa review - a riveting account of a life in dance
Jenny Gilbert
Anyone who has followed the trajectory of choreographer-director Michael Keegan-Dolan and his West Kerry-based company Teaċ Daṁsa (House of…
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Jenny Gilbert
Ed Watson and Jonathan Goddard are extraordinary in Jonathan Watkins' dance theatre adaptation of Isherwood's novel
Helen Hawkins
Six TV series reduced to 100 minutes' dance time doesn't quite compute
Helen Hawkins
First visit by Miyako Yoshida's company leaves you wanting more
Helen Hawkins
The brilliant cast need a tighter score and a stronger narrative
Jenny Gilbert
The after-hours lives of the sad and lonely are drawn with compassion, originality and skill
Jenny Gilbert
The title says it: as dancemaker, as creative magnet, the man clearly works his socks off
Jenny Gilbert
Once again the veteran choreographer and maverick William Forsythe raises ENB's game
Sad Book, Hackney Empire review - What we feel, what we show, and the many ways we deal with sadness
Jenny Gilbert
A book about navigating grief feeds into unusual and compelling dance theatre
Helen Hawkins
A triumphant triple bill
Jenny Gilbert
Kenneth MacMillan's first and best-loved masterpiece turns 60
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Total music theatre takes us from the hell of exile to separation at heaven’s gates
Florence Roberts
A new generation of dancers brings zest, humour and playfulness to late Bausch
Jenny Gilbert
Opera and dance companies share a theme in this terse but affecting double bill
Jenny Gilbert
John Cranko was the greatest choreographer British ballet never had. His masterpiece is now 60 years old
Helen Hawkins
The Leeds-based company act as impressively as they dance
Jenny Gilbert
New production's music, sweets, and hordes of exuberant children make this a hot ticket
Helen Hawkins
A masterly reinvention has become a classic itself
Helen Hawkins
The basics of Streatfield's original aren't lost in this bold, inventive production
Helen Hawkins
A fairytale in need of a dramaturgical transformation
Sam Amidon
Michael Keegan-Dolan’s mind-boggling total work of art arrives at Sadlers Wells this week
Jenny Gilbert
The dancer-choreographer goes epic in a show that unites South Asian dance styles
Helen Hawkins
Wayne McGregor's version of Margaret Atwood's dystopia needs a clearer map
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