The Royal Ballet celebrates Glen Tetley’s centenary with Pierrot Lunaire
The Royal Ballet celebrates the centenary of Glen Tetley’s birth this February with a revival of his masterwork Pierrot Lunaire.
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Interview: Joss Arnott celebrating 15 years of his company with “Meet the Hatter”, the world’s greatest showman
The premiere of Joss Arnott Dance’s Meet the Hatter on 19 September 2025 marks the company’s 15th anniversary with its most ambitious project to date.
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Interview: Martha Graham dancer Lloyd Knight is the first man to dance her iconic role
Martha Graham Dance Company dancer Lloyd Knight talks about being the first man to perform Graham’s Lamentation, and Black rights in dance.
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Review: The Rose Prize – A.I.M by Kyle Abraham presents An Untitled Love – an innovative work
Graham Watts sees A.I.M by Kyle Abraham in An Untitled Love – an absorbing piece of dance theatre.
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Winners of the UK’s 2023 National Dance Awards announced
Here are the winners of the 2023 National Dance Awards announced today at a ceremony at London’s Coronet Theatre.
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Nominations for the 24th National Dance Awards – #NDA24
The Dance Section of the UK Critics’ Circle announces its short-listed nominations for the National Dance Awards (#NDA24).
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New York City Ballet brings a mixed bill to London
New York City Ballet comes to London in 2024 with UK premieres by Kyle Abraham, Justin Peck, and Pam Tanowitz, and a classic work by George Balanchine.
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[Review] Alvin Ailey’s ‘21st Century Creations’ in London
Jann Parry sees Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s 21st Century Creations programme: “The woman in front of me had to hide her young daughter’s eyes.”
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[Review] The Alvin Ailey company presents Ailey Classics – The River, Pas de Duke, Cry, Revelations
Alvin Ailey company: “…tremendously committed to everything it performs, dancing with an inspirational sense of dignity, joy and accomplishment.”
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[Review] The Alvin Ailey company presents Contemporary Voices – Abraham, Battle, Ailey
Matthew Paluch sees the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s ‘Contemporary Voices’ in London with work by Kyle Abraham, Robert Battle, and Ailey himself.
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Phoenix Dance Theatre appoints Marcus Jarrell Willis as new artistic director
Marcus Jarrell Willis, 38, dancer and choreographer, has been appointed as artistic director of Phoenix Dance Theatre, the Black British dance company.
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[Review and Photo Album] The Royal Ballet School Summer Performance 2023
Jann Parry sees a varied programme chosen to showcase the skills of The Royal Ballet School students, plus a rich photo gallery of the performance.
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The Ailey 2 tour UK – the first in over a decade
The Ailey 2 tour UK brings 12 young dancers with works by William Forsythe, Alvin Ailey, Robert Battle and its new artistic director Francesca Harper.
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Alan Cumming to host the 2023 Fire Island Dance Festival
The Fire Island Dance Festival 2023 weekend runs from Saturday 15 to Sunday 16 July. Since 1995 it has raised more than $7.7 million for AIDS charities.
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Prix de Lausanne 2023 – the full lineup
The Prix de Lausanne 2023 50th anniversary complete programme, and the lineup for the Gala of the Stars
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Misty Copeland Foundation announces its new directors
Caryn Campbell has been appointed Executive Director of The Misty Copeland Foundation and Sindy Folgar has been named Director of its BE BOLD programme.
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Choreographer and dancer Ismael Ivo has died at 66 from Covid
The dancer and choreographer was also an important artistic director spending eight years as director of the Biennale Danza in Venice, and 15 years as the artistic director of the ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna.
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[Review] Beethoven’s ballet The Creatures of Prometheus with striking Capucci costumes
Italian producer Daniele Cipriani seems to be resuscitating dance in Italy almost singlehandedly. The first main dance event in the country was conceived by him and presented in mid-July to open the Nervi Festival. It featured Hugo Marchand, Iana Salenko, Sergio Bernal and many other dancers with an international career, who flew into Genoa to dance for the first time after the four-month imposed break. Cipriani is presenting various socially-distanced galas during July and August, but he is also responsible for a coproduction between the Nervi Festival – organised by Genova’s Teatro Carlo Felice – and the Spoleto Festival, with live music from a (socially-distanced) orchestra playing Beethoven’s only ballet score, The Creatures of Prometheus.
The 1801 work was a collaboration with Italian dancer and choreographer Salvatore Viganò. The original scenario of the ballet no longer exists, but a theatre programme for the Viennese premiere gives an idea of the structure:
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Photo Album: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in London
The company has three As in its title but, to my mind, this programme sets the case for it to have four, because the profundity of the African American cause is so central to this fine pair of works that it certainly seems in the hinterland of being culturally inappropriate for me – a white…
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Béjart’s Boléro returns to La Scala with Roberto Bolle and others debuting on the red table
Maurice Béjart’s Boléro returns to La Scala in March, with Roberto Bolle dancing the La Mélodie for the first time. The 15-minute work was last seen in the theatre in 2003 when Sylvie Guillem danced the central role. Béjart Ballet Lausanne’s ‘experts’ Elisabet Ros and Julien Favreau will be featured too, as well as three…
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New York dancers come together for the 7th Annual Dance Against Cancer plus special all-male event
The American Cancer Society – Our Mission is to Save Lives, Celebrate Lives and Lead the Fight for a World Without Cancer! – is staging its 7th Annual Dance Against Cancer. Erin Fogarty Bittner, who is the Programming Director at Manhattan Youth Ballet, and Daniel Ulbricht, Principal Dancer at New York City Ballet, who have…
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Abdiel Cedric Jacobsen answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… dancers’ edition
Q&A When did you start dancing? I began dancing when I was in the womb, taught informally by my mother through the blood memory of her ancestors. My mom is Ivorian – from Côte d’Ivoire – and when we were little kids she would push aside the coffee table in the living room to teach…
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The Art of Movement – a glorious new book from NYC Dance Project
NYC Dance Project – husband and wife team, Ken Browar and Deborah Ory – have produced some of the most widely circulated images of dance on the internet. Leaps and other gymnastic feats will always be shared and liked more than most, but what makes Browar and Ory’s photos stand out is that they communicate…
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Susana B Williams and her Choreographers’ Showcase return to Edinburgh
Susana B Williams has been bringing her Choreographers’ Showcases to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for 15 years. Her company, Dance-Forms, will have managed 72 such events by the time the doors open at the Emerald Theatre on 15 August having produced Showcases from Chile to Croatia, Greece to Guatemala, Monaco to Mexico. I asked her…
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Royal Ballet Autumn Season 2016 – 2017 – full dates and casts
The Royal Ballet has released the casting for their Autumn Season, from September 2016 until January 2017. Roberta Marquez will return as Guest Artist to dance two farewell performances in one of her signature roles as the wayward daughter Lise in La fille mal gardée. LA FILLE MAL GARDÉE 27 and 30 September at 7.30pm…
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Spoleto Festival USA reveals 2012 season: Glass, k.d. lang and Dublin’s Gate Theatre
The American première of the Philip Glass opera “Kepler,” a concert by vocalist k.d. lang, and the return of Dublin’s Gate Theatre highlight the 36th season of the Spoleto Festival USA this spring, says The Boston Globe. Chamber music, acrobatic performances and orchestral concerts are also on the schedule for the festival that will light up 13…
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New York’s ‘Fall for Dance’ announce the lineup for 2011
Steven McRae will be donning his tap-shoes for the latest edition of Fall For Dance at New York City Center, which will run from October 27 to November 6. Twenty companies and choreographers are taking part with all tickets at only $10. For ten exhilarating days each year, feel the rush…the exuberance…the sheer joy that…
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Ailey – Bennett – Donn – Joffrey – Nureyev – Gillis … … …
Some of the dance world’s losses, but the list is much, much longer: Alvin Ailey Michael Bennett Jorge Donn Robert Joffrey Rudolf Nureyev Christopher Gillis …
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