A new season at London’s Southbank Centre is inspired by Emma Warren’s book Dance Your Way Home, about the potency of communal movement. She and other artists involved explain why the dancefloor is their happy place Emma Warren, author...
A Swedish alien-invasion sci-fi mystery is given an AI-assisted English-language makeover, and the cheeky Isle of Wight rockers are back with their long-awaited second album Watch the Skies Out now With the return of all things Y2K in...
Swing and Lindy Hop, dance forms created by Black Americans in the 1920s and ’30s, are flowering in Korea. New York will get a taste in a mini festival.
A thaw in relations during the Cold War led to some surprising collaborations between the two nations, involving everyone from Laurence Olivier and Rudolf Nureyev to Gilbert and George. As relations ice over again, what can we learn from...
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London New York company Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s take on the US president is an ideas-packed, dance-adjacent comedy inspiring whoops and walkouts Is this show genius or self-satisfied nonsense? Is it a dadaist...
Diecast, part of Manchester international festival The convulsing figures in Tom Heyes’ choreography, paired with intense sound and a guttural MC, are caught in a mesmerising struggle for human connection Thick smoke fills the room,...
Ballet dancer whose struggle to leave the Soviet Union in 1972 caused an international outcry that led to his release The virtuoso ballet dancer Valery Panov, who has died aged 87, became a cause célèbre in 1972 when, with his second...
★★ ★ ☆ ☆ / ★★★☆☆ Metronome / Rich Mix, London New works at Spitalfields music festival by Litha Efthymiou and Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade brought a 3rd-century teenage martyr and the chattering rhythms of Dylan Thomas’s poetry to life Small...
Inspired by club culture and reincarnation, Tianzhuo Chen and Asian Dope Boys have devised a mesmerising show that unfolds in six two-hour chapters. Prepare to enter hell and then be healed Naked performers covered in paint roll around...
The festival opener “Nôt,” from Marlene Monteiro Freitas, drew both boos and applause. Elsewhere, for Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, the spectacle was kept to the stage.
In 1989, CEO Shari Tomasiello and her mother created Headliners with a simple mission: that it would be an educationally based and goal-oriented competition, providing a fun and encouraging environment that’s inclusive of dancers of...
From an ‘electrically powerful’ look at the final chapter of Adam Goodes’ AFL career to a must-see portrait of Gurrumul, along with Australia’s ‘greatest protest movie’ Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email There are many things to...
There’s another dino crisis as the cold-blooded megafranchise roars on, and the rapper-poet returns with a hugely personal new album Jurassic World Rebirth Out now Forget Chris Pratt and the friendly velociraptors: this reboot of the...
Dancer and mime artist best known for her eponymous solo trilogy who also performed with David Bowie on film and stage The mime, clown and dancer Annie Stainer, who has died aged 79 of pneumonia, was best known for her solo work in the...
Aviva Studios, Manchester Riven in two by grief – with musician John Grant playing the mind and former Royal Ballet principal Ed Watson the body – lead character George takes a finely danced journey back toward life’s flow in Jonathan...
Artists including the musician John Grant have collaborated to find feelings beyond the words of Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 book. Occasionally, they succeed.
Emerald theatre, London A regal Von Teese oversees this uninspiring mix of chandelier-swinging cabaret, circus and dance featuring the Steps singer as a saloon owner with a string of exes Somewhere in the noughties, Dita Von Teese was...
Sadler’s Wells East, London Taking rests when required, Candoco’s integrated company capture the paradox of dancefloor abandonment Choreographer Dan Daw and the dancers from Candoco are celebrating and politicising the dancefloor,...
A former basketball standout with no formal dance training, he came to provide moves for rappers like Bow Wow and dance-battle films like “You Got Served.”
A sensational Broadway recording, an electrifying Liza Minnelli documentary and King and ‘Queen’ Lear It’s billed as a play not a musical but Stereophonic, the US hit now in London , has some of the best new songs played on a West End...
The choreographer on a treasured biscuit tin, the Biba dress she splashed out on and a late-night police chase Born in Lancashire, Arlene Phillips, 82, created the dance group Hot Gossip in the 1970s. She went on to become a...
Brad Pitt goes racing in the Top Gun: Maverick director’s latest, while Rachel Zegler makes her West End debut as Eva Perón M3gan 2.0 Out now Hitting the sweet spot between camp value and genuine entertainment that’s often surprisingly...
Royal Ballet first artist Amelia Townsend steps into some percussive new shoes this month as the tap-dancing Mad Hatter in Christopher Wheeldon’s fantastical Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, performed by The Royal Ballet...
To Aidan Carberry, choreographing is not just his livelihood, but a game to be played and a puzzle to be solved. Growing up in Los Angeles, Carberry trained at Debbie Allen School of Dance before continuing at the Los Angeles County High...
Trying to move to Israel with his ballerina wife, he was harassed and jailed while becoming an international cause célèbre and a Cold War symbol of the plight of Soviet Jews.
Get ready for gravity-defying acrobats, electrically stimulated dancers and a punk ballet take on Mary, Queen of Scots The Quebec company We All Fall Down got good word-of-mouth at last year’s fringe with their show Papillon. This year...
Sadler’s Wells, London Pete Townshend’s tragic story of teenage angst returns to the stage in a visceral dance production full of the original’s swagger and bravado The Quadrophenia era might be 60 years old, but some things about being...
I’ve never known a version of myself without dance. I was born and raised in the immersive environment of a dance school for bharatanatyam (a form of Indian classical dance) that my parents founded in Los Angeles before I was born. My...
This season, performer and choreographer Tilly Evans-Krueger is pulling double duty on Broadway. Most nights, while she performs the role of Ace in The Outsiders, her choreography is being performed down the street by the likes of...
At 16, Eileen Kim faced a life-changing decision: Stay home to finish high school in Chicago or move to Washington D.C. to pursue her dream of becoming a professional dancer. After spending the summer at the Kirov Academy of Ballet in...
Imagine traveling to beautiful destinations, making lifelong friends from all over the world, and performing high-energy shows for packed audiences. Working on a ship, it’s all part of a regular day in the office. As a production dancer...
Have you ever had the urge to whip out a turn sequence in a grocery store? Or leap through an empty cereal aisle with abandon? 20-year-old Natalie Sterling feels that way too. A Trader Joe’s team member, she’s built a social media...
What does it take to move across the world, dance in Paris at the Moulin Rouge, become a content creator, and start a small business? Allie Goodbun can tell you, and if you follow her on social media, she probably already has. The...