★★★☆☆ / ★★★★☆ Sadler’s Wells East, London BalletLorent stages two dance-theatre versions of the fairytale – one for all the family, another for mature audiences – but both are attuned to its horror and weirdness It’s not your Disney...
The actor on her love of sad songs, history podcasts and cemeteries with mysterious gravestones Born in Hong Kong in 1982, actor Romola Garai grew up in Singapore and Wiltshire. She has starred in films including Atonement and...
Sadler’s Wells, London A triple bill of works by the celebrated American choreographer William Forsythe show ENB’s dancers at their roof-raising best It’s no coincidence that so many of a new generation of choreographers have danced for...
Michael B Jordan faces down evil in a prohibition-era southern horror, and Charlotte Gainsbourg pliés into a fun new ballet comedy-drama Sinners Out now Michael B Jordan plays twins, Smoke and Stack, who return home to Mississippi during...
The Uptown Rhythm Festival will mix styles, including tap, swing and flamenco, that are flourishing despite problems of rehearsal and performance space.
Tremaine Dance Conventions & Competitions started as a dream: A dream to share the fresh, new training techniques and material being taught in major cities like Los Angeles and New York with dance students throughout the...
Jenn Edwards has crafted a multifaceted career: She performs with Le Patin Libre, a contemporary skating company, dances, teaches, and choreographs for gymnasts and dancers, and plays in a band. Though her breadth of work is impressive,...
Over the weekend, college dance teams from around the country gathered in Daytona, FL, to attend the National Dance Association’s 2025 College National Championships. And this year, for the first time, division winners competed in a...
OVO Arena, Wembley, London This highlight reel of totemic routines interspersed with some dazzling cast numbers showcases the couple’s former greatness and timeless elegance A painfully mirthless Dancing on Ice skit during Torvill and...
Sadler’s Wells East, London Zürich Dance Ensemble’s extraordinary dancers, led by choreographer Harrell, all but embody the pianist’s free jazz musings, with a little help from Joni Mitchell In essence, American choreographer Trajal...
Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche reunite for an ancient Greek yarn, while the dystopian video game adaptation powers up for a second series The Return Out now Odysseus (Ralph Fiennes) washes up looking like something the cat dragged in...
Sharon Watson and Mark Osterfield say small dance institutions are at risk under current funding provisions, which will only deepen inequality in access to the arts Your excellent coverage of the Olivier awards ( Report, 6 April ) was...
With the excitement of January’s Universal Dance Association (UDA) College Nationals dying down, dancers won’t have to wait long for their next obsession: National Dance Alliance (NDA) College Nationals are just around the corner. This...
The Place, London Arresting show from Northern Rascals charts the growing distance between two young men This bedroom looks like it has been ripped out of a building. Its walls are edged with an exposed, skyline-like mesh. Here,...
John Lithgow, Imelda Staunton, Romola Garai and Layton Williams are among the winners at the annual stage awards Olivier awards: full list of winners The play Giant , which portrays children’s author Roald Dahl amid an outcry about his...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Giant and Fiddler on the Roof were among the big winners at the Royal Albert Hall ceremony Best new musical The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, music and lyrics by Darren Clark, book and lyrics by...
Royal Opera House, London An immensely satisfying tribute to the choreographer is full of invention, emotion and dazzling precision George Balanchine’s Serenade has the most beautiful opening in ballet. Seventeen women standing like...
Jason Momoa and Jack Black get building in the video game spinoff, while Charlie Brooker’s dystopian anthology goes onboard the USS Callister again A Minecraft Movie Out now You know how it is – you’re hanging out minding your own...
With football season officially over, most of the world won’t be thinking about the gridiron until the leaves start to turn again. But there is one group of people who are ramping up for weeks of competition with their eyes on the...
Peacock theatre, London Gleefully exploding traditional funeral rites, Thisispopbaby deploy styles from stepdance to pole dance to upend expectations of Irish culture You haven’t lived, it turns out, until you’ve seen a blazing-hot pole...
The former Bolshoi star, the most high-profile dancer to leave Russia, is making a career at the Dutch National Ballet, where she is refining her intensity.
Arts administrator who ran Ballet Rambert and oversaw the use of lottery funding for the redevelopment of theatres In a career that lasted half a century, Prue (Prudence) Skene, who has died aged 81, experienced much change in the role...
Director Kevin O’Hare announces staging of NYCB choreographer Peck’s 2014 piece, as well as new works by Akram Khan and Cathy Marston A ballet by one of New York’s hottest choreographers, set to the music of Sufjan Stevens, and Akram...
Radha Varadan’s ingenious reimaginings of some of ballet’s most famous variations using kathak, a form of Indian classical dance, have earned her serious traction online. Based in India and the U.S., Varadan trained...
It was a time of high-octane thrills as cavorting couples put themselves through brutal competitions in the hope of winning the equivalent of a year’s salary. Now sculptor Nicole Wermers has brought the dancefloor craze back to life...
David Tennant and Cush Jumbo in Shakespeare’s tragedy, a puppet-powered transformation for Yann Martel’s novel and Anna Chancellor in a Restoration-era comedy are among this month’s highlights Performances at Covent Garden’s 251-seat...
The 2025-26 season, which includes a Balanchine revival and premieres by Justin Peck and Alexei Ratmansky, will also see the retirement of Megan Fairchild in spring.
As part of its 50th anniversary, the East Village institution presents reimagined dances by Ishmael Houston-Jones and Fred Holland, Donna Uchizono and Bebe Miller.
Where other teen shows ramp up the sex, drugs and scandal, this Leeds-set saga about rivalries in a dance school keeps it real – so real it almost refuses to be entertaining The implausibility of the teen drama may well be the genre’s...
Members of the dance company Ballet Hispánico weren’t the only ones who swirled amid the art in the museum’s rotunda during a recent presentation and tango class.
Sadler’s Wells; Paul Hamlyn Hall, Royal Opera House, London Athletes and dancers meet each other halfway in Rachid Ouramdane’s latest. And Pam Tanowitz taps into Covent Garden’s past while reaching out to the future It’s a rule of life...
On a program with three New York premieres, the company seems stuck in an international style, though there are flickers of something more distinctive.
Competition dance trends become popular for a reason, but even the most exciting fads eventually run their course. Four competition judges discuss the dance trends they believe it’s time to leave behind, and offer suggestions on how to...
At age 11, Adam Vesperman was ushered into an impromptu audition for Billy Elliot: The Musical at a West Coast Dance Explosion Nationals. Despite an off-key rendition of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” his strong dancing skills secured...
The performing arts venue does not draw the attention or audiences it once did. Now it has lost another leader as it works to adjust to an uncertain future for cultural institutions.
As a young child, I was enrolled in dance class by my mother, along with my three older sisters, no doubt in an effort to create some peace in her life. Little did she know that she was creating a space for a shy, seemingly invisible...
Maycee Steele is never far from the for-you page. From her creation of the mega-popular “Cuff It” dance challenge with Kaitlyn Hardy in 2022 to her presence as a backup dancer in Tate McRae’s always-trending tour choreography, she has a...