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Dance

  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Review
    Ballet Shoes — Noel Streatfeild’s tale of self-discovery gets a vivid stage version

    Kendall Feaver’s dramatisation at the National Theatre galvanises the classic children’s novel into a modern work

  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Review
    Royal Ballet’s Cinderella — Marianela Nuñez leads a ballet for grown-ups

    This Royal Opera House fairy tale rendition is bittersweet and packed with pretexts for virtuoso dancing

  • Saturday, 30 November, 2024
    The Swan Lake that changed dance for ever

    Matthew Bourne’s spellbinding production has travelled the world, won a string of awards and is still airborne 30 years on

    On a stage designed to look like a lake at night, three male figures in feathered trousers lie on the ground, while another leaps balletically into the air, facing another man who is sitting on the ground
  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    Review
    Oona Doherty’s ‘Specky Clark’ is a surreal, darkly comic journey

    Premiered in Aix-en-Provence, the choreographer’s piece features a pagan ceremony and a pig that comes back to life

    In a scene from a dance production, a person with large round spectacles exclaims with mouth wide open; to the rear, two performers dressed as otherworldly creatures, one with a straw head, the other like a demon, lurk and menace
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    Review
    Akram Khan’s Gigenis — a dance of play and power

    The UK premiere at London’s Sadler’s Wells is a virtuosic showcase of classical Indian dance

  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    ReviewTheatre
    The Red Shoes, Swan Theatre review — grisly and gorgeous but oddly muted

    New adaptation results in a mismatch between the gruesome details the original and a bewildering modern reading

    A woman in a black dress and red shoes stands on a table surrounded by men and women in evening wear
  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    Review
    The Royal Ballet’s MaddAddam is a spectacular jumble

    Wayne McGregor’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s post-apocalyptic trilogy is superbly danced

    A female dancer leans against one of a group of bulbous blobby creatures gathering next to her
  • Saturday, 9 November, 2024
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: the holiday issue 2024

    Our Christmas gift guide is back – and it’s more colourful than ever

    Clara Denison wears Dior virgin wool Check N Dior dress, POA. Vivienne Westwood leather boots (just seen), POA. Socks, stylist’s own
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI’s guide to making this festive season the best ever
    Ballerina Francesca Hayward talks taste

    The principal dancer of The Royal Ballet twirls for Tim Tams, Tchaikovsky and taxis

    Francesca Hayward at her home in London
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    FT Series
    HTSI meets the arts stars of the AW24 season

    The shows are on and you’ve read the reviews; now revisit our interviews with the people transforming stage and screen this season

    Cillian Murphy
  • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
    Review
    The Rite of Spring — Pina Bausch’s seminal version is Stravinsky made flesh

    Senegal dance troupe École des Sables has revived the late choreographer’s classic 1975 iteration to stunning effect

    A troupe of female dancers in sleeveless ivory-coloured slip dresses, all gesturing skywards, their feet on a stage covered in a thick layer of soil
  • Monday, 4 November, 2024
    Review
    Nutcracker in Havana — Carlos Acosta gives Christmas classic a snazzy Cuban twist

    Tchaikovsky’s score is reworked with Latin rhythms in Acosta Danza’s latest production

    A man leaps into the air, legs splayed, as another man and a woman look on
  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    Review
    The Royal Ballet’s Encounters — fine soloists shine in playful, witty works

    Pieces by Crystal Pite and Pam Tanowitz are the highlights at London’s Royal Opera House

    A male dancer leaps with his legs stretched out parallel to the floor while a smiling female dancer stands and reaches out to him; both wear colourful costumes
  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
    Review
    Abby Z’s Radioactive Practice review — a tireless but underwhelming mishmash

    Hip-hop, African dance and martial arts were all in the mix in the choreographer’s European debut at Sadler’s Wells, London

    A female dancer spreads her body out in a movement that makes her appear to levitate above the floor
  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    Review
    Hofesh Shechter’s Theatre of Dreams is dazzling but directionless

    Danced with skill and staged with flair at London’s Sadler’s Wells, the choreographer’s piece lacks resolution

    A group of close-knit dancers run, stare, exclaim and extend their arms
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Review
    Royal Ballet opens season with richly fruited Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

    A clutch of terrific debuts breathes new life into Christopher Wheeldon’s production

  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    Review
    Nigerian troupe QDance blend street dance and ritual at London’s Southbank Centre — review

    Also reviewed: hip-hop company ZooNation revive their first-rate Mad Hatter’s Tea Party

    A group of colourfully dressed dancers perform on stage, led by a smiling young man
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    Interview
    Choreographer Akram Khan is ‘exploring my own language’ through Indian classical dance

    With his new Indian-inspired ‘Gigenis’ and a ‘Giselle’ revival, the dancer draws on his heritage and the western ballet tradition

    A man in classical Indian attire strikes a combative dance pose in the centre of a dark stage. Behind him is a bare-chested man, in front another male dancer and to the left a female dance in green
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Review
    Scottish Dance Theatre takes flight in gleeful take on bird migration

    The group’s programme at London’s The Place features two contemporary pieces — ‘The Flock’ and ‘Moving Cloud’

    A group of dancers hold themselves horizontally, supported by one hand on the floor, extending their legs and reaching out with their free arms
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Review
    Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker debuts Four Seasons dance after allegations of ‘dictatorial leadership’

    ‘Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione’, created with Radouan Mriziga, comes in the wake of a newspaper investigation

    A man in basketball shorts and a gauzy hoodie leaps with knees bent and arms outspread
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Review
    London City Ballet rises again with Resurgence

    Programme from the reborn company at Sadler’s Wells, London, was a flavoursome blend of old and new

    A male dancer carries a female dancer; her legs are extended upwards and she leans back in his arms
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    HTSI
    Guillaume Diop is dancing with joy 

    The first Black étoile at the Paris Opera Ballet talks racism, regimens and recognition

    Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello silk satin high-neck blouse, £1,460, silk crepe trousers, £1,640, and patent-leather Derby shoes, £820. Calzedonia cashmere-mix tights, £19.99
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    Interview
    Choreographer Crystal Pite: ‘I have to work fast — I don’t have time to overthink’

    The in-demand dance-maker brings the colossal and the contemporary into genre-crossing work

    A woman in a black singlet and black slacks and trainers standing against ballet barres
  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    ReviewTheatre
    A Chorus Line, Sadler’s Wells — theatrical magic turns hoofers into stars

    Michael Bennett and Marvin Hamlisch’s audition musical looks behind the scenes at Broadway’s hard-knock life

    A long row of dancers in gold top hats and gold leotards or suits high-kick as golden confetti pours down on them under bright stage lights
  • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
    Venice Dance Biennale puts AI and humanity at its heart

    Artistic director Wayne McGregor has chosen choreographers from around the world, including Trajal Harrell and Cristina Caprioli

    Dancers in blue tops and trousers move around the stage as one flings herself over the shoulder of another
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