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Dance

  • Tuesday, 4 November, 2025
    HTSI
    Why Scrooge is getting his groove on at Sadler’s Wells

    Two stalwarts of British dance on giving A Christmas Carol a Caribbean hip-hop flavour

    Dannielle “Rhimes” Lecointe and Michael “Mikey J” Asante at the Olympic Park in London
  • Wednesday, 29 October, 2025
    Review
    Thikra is an intriguing swansong for the Akram Khan Company

    Twelve women dancers tell a story of cultural collisions along the ancient ‘Incense Road’

    Dancers in flowing grey costumes perform dynamic movements on stage in Akram Khan’s "Thikra: A Night of Remembering."
  • Saturday, 25 October, 2025
    Interview
    Wayne McGregor on embracing AI — and why we should all think like dancers

    On the eve of a cutting-edge exhibition at London’s Somerset House, the choreographer wants us to unlock our physical potential

    Choreographer Wayne McGregor, a shaven-headed middle-age man, posing for the camera in oversized black shirt and baggy black trousers.
  • Monday, 20 October, 2025
    Review
    An exquisite staging of Gesualdo’s Passione has shades of Caravaggio

    Les Arts Florissants and Amala Dianor Company joined forces at the Barbican Hall

    Several dancers in black costumes lift a shirtless performer with outstretched arms in a dramatic stage tableau
  • Saturday, 18 October, 2025
    La Fille mal gardée is a comic masterpiece — and an accident waiting to happen

    On stage with the Royal Ballet tonight: a pony, a flying umbrella and several hundred metres of pink ribbon. What could possibly go wrong?

    Marianela Nuñez as Lise stands on a barrel at the center of a maypole, surrounded by The Royal Ballet dancers holding colourful ribbons.
  • Monday, 6 October, 2025
    Review
    Royal Ballet and English National Ballet’s season openers come crowded with incident

    ‘R:Evolution’ and ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ offer dense, often dazzling dance-making

    Sangeun Lee and Gareth Haw perform a dramatic ballet lift in David Dawson’s "Four Last Songs," with another dancer in motion nearby.
  • Friday, 19 September, 2025
    Review
    Michael Keegan-Dolan’s dance memoir is poignant, illuminating and very, very funny

    The Irish performer and his wife Rachel Poirier excel in ‘How to be a Dancer in Seventy-two Thousand Easy Lessons’ at Sadler’s Wells East

  • Saturday, 13 September, 2025
    ‘Josephine Baker liberated women’s bodies’

    A century on from the dancer’s debut at the Champs-Élysées Theatre, the Paris venue celebrates her extraordinary life

    A woman sits outdoors on a tree trunk, dressed in light-colored trousers and a short-sleeved top, gazing upward.
  • Tuesday, 9 September, 2025
    Review
    ‘Borda’ is a dance crescendo from veteran choreographer Lia Rodrigues

    The Brazilian’s new work, showcased at the Lyon Dance Biennale, grows from modest beginnings into something carnivalesque

  • Friday, 5 September, 2025
    Review
    We Should Have Never Walked on the Moon — a dizzying dance buffet at London’s Southbank Centre

    Rambert and (LA)HORDE Ballet National de Marseille have combined forces to present an almost overwhelming array of performances across the complex

  • Tuesday, 2 September, 2025
    Interview
    Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky: ‘The war changed everything’

    The former director of Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet used to be apolitical — then came the invasion of Ukraine

    Alexei Ratmansky demonstrates a ballet move onstage during rehearsal of ‘Paquita’ with two dancers in the background.
  • Monday, 18 August, 2025
    Review
    Steamy, spellbinding dancing in Scottish Ballet’s Mary, Queen of Scots

    Roseanna Leney is a persuasive heroine in this new piece about the tragic queen, premiered in Edinburgh

  • Saturday, 2 August, 2025
    InterviewLife & Arts
    Ballet superstar Roberto Bolle: ‘At 50, I am much stronger than when I started’

    The Italian dancer is still performing to sold-out crowds around the world. What’s his secret?

    Male ballet dancer in black practice attire standing at a barre in a mirrored dance studio
  • Friday, 25 July, 2025
    Review
    The National Ballet of Japan makes its UK debut with an exquisite Giselle

    The company’s first overseas performance for 16 years, at London’s Royal Opera House, features an effortless performance from Yui Yonezawa

    A male ballet dancer kneels with one arm outstretched, holding the hand of a female dancer who balances en pointe on one foot, her other leg raised high
  • Friday, 25 July, 2025
    Architecture
    Good vibrations at the new Jacob’s Pillow dance theatre

    Built from wood, the $30mn Doris Duke Theatre in the Berkshires allows the audience to feel the movement of its performers

    A wooden theatre set in a campus with people walking towards it
  • Saturday, 5 July, 2025
    Japanese fandom’s next frontier? Ballet

    The country’s top dancers have often sought careers abroad but now a young company with big ambitions is aiming to build on talent at home

    A ballerina in white tutu pirouetting
  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
    Review
    A Single Man — ballet adaptation of Isherwood novel is tenderly written and danced

    Jonathan Watkins’s new work at Aviva Studios, Manchester, brings together two of the finest dance actors of their generation

    A man and a woman in period dress perform a high-kicking dance routine
  • Monday, 30 June, 2025
    Review
    Quadrophenia — The Who’s rock opera is reimagined as a Mod ballet

    Pete Townshend’s original music forms the soundtrack to a sharp touring production with costuming by Paul Smith

  • Saturday, 28 June, 2025
    FT Magazine
    How line dancing found an unlikely fan base in New York City

    What’s behind the popularity of a red-state pastime in deep-blue US cities

    Smiling person dancing with a red fan in a lively bar with neon signs, guitars and drums on the wall
  • Sunday, 15 June, 2025
    Special ReportBusiness Education: Financial Training
    Juilliard students learn to balance art and accounts in a precarious world

    Post‑pandemic, the performing arts school is embracing entrepreneurship — and a drive towards full tuition‑free access

    Young musicians practise string instruments in a wood-panelled room with tablets and drinks on a red table
  • Friday, 13 June, 2025
    Review
    Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell brings to life Patrick Hamilton’s seedy, lovelorn characters

    Sadler’s Wells in London also hosts Phoenix Dance Theatre’s James Baldwin adaptation, ‘Inside Giovanni’s Room’

  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    Review
    Thrilling debut performances light up the Royal Ballet’s Onegin

    Vadim Muntagirov, Fumi Kaneko and Natalia Osipova were among the dancers who shone in John Cranko’s ballet

  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
    Interview
    Farruquito: ‘We learnt flamenco almost without realising, like one learns to talk or walk’

    Scion of a flamenco dynasty, Farruquito dazzled audiences as a child — and now contemplates the line of succession

    A man with dark hair and beard and wearing flamenco shoes stands with one foot on a box. There is a guitar on the floor in front of him.
  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    Review
    Flamenco star Sara Baras shows off her magnificent skills

    Performance at London’s Sadler’s Wells impressed most when the dancer let her hair down

  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    HTSI
    Le Train Bleu: a mythic dance masterpiece is reborn

    Picasso and Chanel helped to create it 100 years ago. As our exclusive preview reveals, English National Ballet is giving it new life

    ENB dancers in front of the stage cloth for the Ballets Russes’ production of Le Train Bleu, which was designed by Pablo Picasso, 1924, currently on display at V&A East Storehouse
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