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Friday, 21 February, 2020

Gaga: the Israeli dance movement that’s going global

Forget spin, and other self-conscious fitness fads: embrace the mindful art of letting go

Friday, 21 February, 2020

Review

Alina Cojocaru at Sadler’s Wells — a one-woman showcase for the ballerina’s talents

Cojocaru excelled, though the material was not always worthy of her gifts

Friday, 21 February, 2020

Back to black: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre’s fresh start

The inventive Taiwanese company returns to London with a new director and a visually sumptuous show

Thursday, 20 February, 2020

Review

Message in a Bottle — choreographer Kate Prince sets a refugee narrative to the songs of Sting

The piece is exuberantly danced and slickly staged at the Peacock Theatre in London

Tuesday, 18 February, 2020

Review

The Cellist — Marcelino Sambé rescues this Jacqueline du Pré ballet

Sambé is mercurial as du Pré’s cello in this portrait of the great musician’s life at the Royal Opera House

Friday, 14 February, 2020

Thiago Soares on his rise to ballet superstardom and beyond

The Royal Ballet principal dancer reveals his plans for life post-retirement at 38

Thursday, 13 February, 2020

Review

Pina Bausch’s brutal, problematic Bluebeard finally gets its Sadler’s Wells debut

Tanztheater Wuppertal performs this controversial 1977 piece with tireless commitment

Monday, 10 February, 2020

Review

Balanchine back from the dead at New York City Ballet

Two rediscovered works shed fresh light on the choreographer, but it’s Episodes that steals the show

Friday, 7 February, 2020

‘The Cellist’ explores Jacqueline du Pré’s life in ballet

British choreographer Cathy Marston treads on sensitive territory in the musician’s love-hate affair with her instrument

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Thursday, 6 February, 2020

Review

Michael Keegan-Dolan’s MÁM — a dazzling dance marathon at Sadler’s Wells

The Irish choreographer’s new work is a frenzy of music and movement

Wednesday, 5 February, 2020

Review

Force Life, Shelf Life — a hybrid of dance and art at MoMA, New York

A performance piece alternates with a video installation-cum-sculpture, with contrasting results

Monday, 3 February, 2020

Review

Ratmansky’s Voices at the Lincoln Center, New York — fearsome steps for formidable ballerinas

The choreographer’s setting of a song cycle based on human speech creates a gorgeous canvas of human chaos

Friday, 31 January, 2020

Interview

Michael Keegan-Dolan: ‘Classical ballet isn’t some sort of pinnacle’

The Irish choreographer on combining myth, modernity and unitards in his latest work

Monday, 27 January, 2020

Review

Aisha and Abhaya — an uneasy mix of film and dance at the Linbury Theatre, London

Kibwe Tavares’s new work is visually strong but dramatically muddled

Monday, 20 January, 2020

Review

Reece Clarke performs with power and subtlety in the Royal Ballet’s Onegin

The newly promoted dancer partnered Natalia Osipova at the Royal Opera House

Friday, 17 January, 2020

Review

Cion: Requiem of Ravel’s ‘Boléro’ — a gripping dance-opera in New York

South African dance and music combine at the Joyce Theater, in a work that explores grief, struggle and relief

Tuesday, 14 January, 2020

Review

Suresnes Cités Danse 2020 opens in Paris with a double bill of new work

An outstanding piece by a Comoran choreographer helped launch this year’s edition of the hip-hop dance festival

Tuesday, 14 January, 2020

Review

Churchill, Derek Jarman and Barbara Cartland star in Romancing the Apocalypse

Dance/cabaret outfit Thick and Tight brings genre-busting vignettes to the Lilian Baylis Studio, London

Monday, 13 January, 2020

Review

English National Ballet rises superbly to the challenge of Le Corsaire

The company brings spectacle and excellent dancing to this swashbuckling tale at the London Coliseum

Friday, 10 January, 2020

Dance company Peeping Tom’s unsettling view of family life

The couple behind the Belgian troupe on how they create their nightmarish dramas — and who gets the last word

Thursday, 2 January, 2020

Review

Celui qui tombe, Paris — grace under pressure

A precarious platform is also a springboard for a penetrating study of resilience

Tuesday, 24 December, 2019

Review

Tap-dancing New York Nutcracker swings, but doesn’t sizzle

Michelle Dorrance’s dancers shine at the Joyce Theater, but you yearn for them to make more of Duke Ellington’s jazzed-up Tchaikovsky

Monday, 23 December, 2019

Review

The Little Prince is a sweet-natured family show at The Place, London

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s 1943 fable is brought to life by Frank Moon’s music in this dance theatre adaptation

Monday, 23 December, 2019

Review

Paris Opera Ballet strikes disrupt Nureyev’s Raymonda

The company looked ready for a strong run on the first night at the Opéra Bastille — but many performances have been cancelled

Tuesday, 17 December, 2019

Review

La Pastorale — a soothing dance of civilised harmony at the Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris

Thierry Malandain’s new work harks back to classical antiquity

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