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This week's dance previews

Jamie Bond as The Prince in Birmingham Royal Ballet's take on The Nutcracker. Akram Khan and Nitin Sawnhey's festival climaxes with their joint creation, Confluence (Thu & Fri). Weaving extracts of their former works – including Zero Degrees and Bahok – ...

From JUDITH MACKRELL, NITIN SAWHNEY, Guardian Unlimited,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Royal Ballet,  Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui,  Peter Wright

Gnosis | Dance review

Blurring turns … choreographer and dancer Akram Khan at Sadler's Wells. Photograph: Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images Dancers may talk through their bodies, but, as Akram Khan had to announce on Monday, sometimes their bodies "talk back". A recent ...

From JUDITH MACKRELL, Guardian Unlimited,  17 Nov 2009

Christmas 2009 going out guide: dance

Matthew Bourne's reinvention of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake is a deserved seasonal staple. Its slick comedy is touched with moments of genius in the portrayal of a lonely prince and his doomed love for the sexiest of shape-shifting birds. Sadler's Wells, ...

From JUDITH MACKRELL, Guardian Unlimited,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Matthew Bourne,  David Nixon,  Peter Wright

Birmingham Royal Ballet | Dance review

The title of 's latest triple bill, Quantum Leaps, isn't an empty boast, at least not when it comes to David Bintley's new ballet E=mc2. Inspired by David Bodanis's Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation, Bintley has impressively digested his ...

From JUDITH MACKRELL, Guardian Unlimited,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Royal Ballet

Royal Ballet Triple Bill | Dance review

Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajima and lighting designer Lucy Carter deserve equal billing for Wayne McGregor's latest work, Limen. Part ballet, part installation, it creates a radical alchemy between movement and light. And, as with all of McGregor's ...

From JUDITH MACKRELL, Guardian Unlimited,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Royal Ballet,  Wayne McGregor,  Martha Graham

Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre | Dance review

The most powerful force in the world … Daphne Strothmann, centre, in The Rite of Spring. Photograph: Tristram Kenton There are very good reasons for ENO to pair Duke Bluebeard's Castle and Rite of Spring as a double bill. Both are dark, implacable ...

From JUDITH MACKRELL, Guardian Unlimited,  8 Nov 2009

Rambert Dance Company | Dance review

It was witty of Rambert to put their new Darwin-inspired work next to a revival of Carnival of the Animals. Siobhan Davies's setting of the Saint-Saëns score is exactly the kind of dottily anthropomorphic dance that audiences might expect on the ...

From JUDITH MACKRELL, Guardian Unlimited,  4 Nov 2009

Mark Morris Dance Group – Programme 2 | Dance review

Mark Morris's second programme opens with another UK premiere: Visitation, a spare, strange setting of Beethoven's Sonata No 4 for cello and piano. The music is filled with disconcerting echoes and moments of hiatus, and in Morris's choreography, these ...

From JUDITH MACKRELL, Guardian Unlimited,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Mark Morris,  Bob Wills,  Lou Harrison

Mark Morris Dance Company | Dance review

Darkly exuberant ... a scene from Empire Garden by the Mark Morris Dance Company at Sadler's Wells, London. Photograph: Tristram Kenton One obvious reason for making dance the old-fashioned way – using music as the starting point for the movement – is ...

From JUDITH MACKRELL, Guardian Unlimited,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Mark Morris,  Charles Ives

The Sleeping Beauty | Dance review

To dance Aurora after a year away is a tough call for any ballerina, given that this is one of ballet's most technically exposing roles. It was hardly surprising that Sarah Lamb, recently recovered from injury, was visibly wired as she stepped out in ...

From JUDITH MACKRELL, Guardian Unlimited,  26 Oct 2009

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