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  • Tuesday, 2 March, 2021
    Covid will not squash our deep-seated need to dance

    The pandemic has deprived us of something that binds people together and gives great joy — but history suggests that it will bounce back

  • Monday, 22 February, 2021
    How To Spend It
    How Van Cleef & Arpels put a ballet inside a watch

    In a feat of unmatched clock-making, Balanchine’s Jewels has been animated, scored, and put inside three new timepieces

  • Tuesday, 19 January, 2021
    Arts
    Is multi-view streaming the future for the performing arts?

    The latest online productions offer audiences a choice of camera angles

  • Saturday, 19 December, 2020
    Bobby Seagull
    Strictly Come Dancing: lessons for investors

    As viewers prepare to cast their votes in the final episode, there are some surprising hidden money lessons

  • Thursday, 17 December, 2020
    Review
    Royal Ballet’s socially distanced Nutcracker comes to life

    Much-loved production of the seasonal favourite moves online, as does Birmingham Royal Ballet’s staging

  • Monday, 14 December, 2020
    Review
    Breakin’ Convention at Sadler’s Wells — an intense experience

    This mini-showcase of hip-hop dance featured responses to the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement

  • Wednesday, 2 December, 2020
    Interview
    Sadler’s Wells’ Alistair Spalding on weathering the shutdown

    The dance theatre director discusses redundancies, artistic responses to Black Lives Matter and his plans for reopening strongly

  • Monday, 30 November, 2020
    Film
    Would Audrey Hepburn have made it as a dancer?

    The stars of new film ‘Audrey’ reflect on the life and dance ambitions of the Hollywood great

  • Wednesday, 25 November, 2020
    Interview
    Annie-B Parson — the choreographer who democratised dance

    She stripped away hierarchies in stagings for artists such as David Byrne — now she is working with untrained dancers for Dance Umbrella

  • Promoted Content
  • Tuesday, 13 October, 2020
    ReviewTheatre
    Damon Albarn and Abderrahmane Sissako’s Le Vol du Boli in Paris

    The ambitious staging, exploring centuries of African history and colonisation, had a breathtaking score and lush vocals

  • Monday, 12 October, 2020
    Review
    Royal Ballet makes triumphant return with Back on Stage

    Stars such as Marianela Nuñez and Vadim Muntagirov exuded pride and joy after a hiatus of seven months

  • Thursday, 24 September, 2020
    Michael Clark: colourful career of a dance provocateur

    A Barbican exhibition traces the dancer/choreographer’s steps from outsider-artist collaborations to outlandish costumes

  • Wednesday, 16 September, 2020
    Interview
    Gary Clarke keeps dancing to the rhythm of life

    The choreographer talks about privilege, poverty and creating online work about life in the industrial north

  • Monday, 24 August, 2020
    Review
    Our Bodies Back — Sadler’s Wells presents choreography as protest art

    jessica Care moore’s furious poem about the death of a black woman in custody is the subject of a powerful short film

  • Wednesday, 5 August, 2020
    How To Spend It
    Nine drive-ins worth getting into gear for

    A round-up of the new wave of in-car entertainment – from opera to art shows

  • Saturday, 20 June, 2020
    How To Spend It
    How I spend it… Louisa Young on dancing

    The novelist describes her obsession with posting a dance a day on Instagram

  • Friday, 15 May, 2020
    Argentina
    Old Argentines keep spirit of tango alive in the age of coronavirus

    Life-long practitioners of the sensual dance struggle under one of region’s strictest lockdowns

  • Friday, 17 April, 2020
    Film
    Billy Elliot 20 years on: a lasting legacy

    The feel-good film about a miner’s son turned ballet star has influenced a generation of male dancers

  • Friday, 10 April, 2020
    This week’s top 10 dance shows to watch online

    From Peter and the Wolf to The Nutcracker, here are the best performances available to stream from your sofa

  • Tuesday, 10 March, 2020
    Review
    Richard Alston says goodbye while Mark Bruce returns to heaven

    The veteran choreographer offers an upbeat farewell at Sadler’s Wells, and Bruce brings hints of David Lynch to Wilton’s Music Hall

  • Friday, 6 March, 2020
    Review
    Liam Scarlett’s lavish Swan Lake is revived at the Royal Opera House, London

    The Royal Ballet’s production features sumptuous designs and luxury casting

  • Wednesday, 4 March, 2020
    Review
    Crystal Pite’s Revisor turns Gogol into utterly absorbing dance theatre at Sadler’s Wells

    The choreographer’s witty new work incorporates speech, music and expressive movement

  • Tuesday, 3 March, 2020
    Review
    Béjart Ballet Lausanne — Bolero is the main attraction at the Palais des Congrès, Paris

    The choreographer’s blockbuster was performed by Diana Vishneva alongside works by Gil Roman

  • Friday, 28 February, 2020
    Review
    Justin Peck and Nico Muhly’s Rotunda — fizzled notes and ingenuity

    New York City Ballet performed the premiere of this fascinating piece at the Lincoln Center

  • Friday, 28 February, 2020
    Arts
    Alexander Whitley: ‘We’re being hyperstimulated into excessive activity’

    The choreographer on how his latest work surveys our spiritual condition under surveillance capitalism

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