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Dance

  • 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
    FT SeriesHTSI’s top stories – from the world’s largest Picasso to the perfect cheeseburger
    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
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    Review
    Royal Ballet celebrates the wide-ranging talents of Christopher Wheeldon

    Programme of the choreographer’s work, Ballet to Broadway, has five-star highs — and some odd choices

  • Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
    Review
    Sasha Waltz offers a dance response to a minimalist masterpiece

    Music outmatches movement in an improvisatory performance at the Southbank Centre

  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    Review
    Five stars for English National Ballet’s Forsythe Programme — review

    Triple bill of the choreographer’s work at London’s Sadler’s Wells was packed with wit and virtuosity

    Three dancers stand in a close group, extending their arms
  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
    Review
    Thrilling debuts light up George Balanchine masterpieces

    Three of the choreographer’s signature pieces were given new life by London’s Royal Ballet

    Several bald men surround a dark-haired man in a tattered Roman outfit, stretching their hands towards him
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Review
    Pam Tanowitz brings her gleeful new dance work to London’s Royal Opera House

    ‘Neither Drums Nor Trumpets’ was one of three premieres that formed part of the Van Cleef & Arpels Dance Reflections season

    A man in a pink and orange one-piece tilts forward on one leg
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Review
    Lyon Opera Ballet brings two Merce Cunningham masterpieces to life

    ‘Beach Birds’ and ‘Biped’ get impressive, meticulous stagings at London’s Dance Reflections festival

  • Tuesday, 11 March, 2025
    Interview
    Pam Tanowitz: ‘My work never feels finished — dancers tell me: stop changing things!’

    The New York choreographer discusses the ‘risky’ business of bringing her work to a former flower market at London’s Royal Opera House

    A woman sits with her back to the wall in a room with framed artworks hanging; she is looking off to one side
  • Monday, 10 March, 2025
    Review
    Natalia Osipova’s new solo venture shows her insatiable artistic curiosity

    Three-part programme in London was proof of her stylistic range — and revealed her impressive vocal delivery

    A dancer in a white dress with black detailing embroidered on it, lifts one foot, arms half outstretched
  • Monday, 10 March, 2025
    Review
    Combustible chemistry poses a fire risk as MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet turns 60 — review

    Royal Ballet revival features thrilling pairings of Yasmine Naghdi and Matthew Ball, Marianela Nuñez and William Bracewell

    A male and female ballet dancer stand clutching each other passionately, desperately
  • Monday, 24 February, 2025
    Review
    Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Cinderella is sumptuous and warm

    David Bintley’s staging, performed at Birmingham’s Hippodrome, is gorgeous to look at and packed with humour

    A female dancer leaps joyfully in a  dilapidated room dominated by a giant wardrobe
  • Monday, 24 February, 2025
    ReviewArts
    Dancing with Shadows podcast review — rare portrait of a closed world

    New series explores the troubled New York City Ballet and the notoriously high standards demanded by its co-founder George Balanchine

    A man stands holding the hands of a female dancer as she leans to one side; to the rear is a wall-sized mirror
  • Saturday, 22 February, 2025
    Theatre
    Judi Dench leads the HTSI spring arts issue

    We asked carnival queens, make-up masters, directors, dancers and a Swedish psych-rock band called Goat to examine the person, the performance and the persona

    Judi Dench at home in Surrey
  • Friday, 21 February, 2025
    HTSIJudi Dench leads the HTSI spring arts issue
    Samba queen Sabrina Sato: ‘Heaven must be similar to Carnival’

    The Brazilian star loves sunglasses, massages and her tailor-made costumes

    Sabrina Sato wears a Carnival outfit at home in São Paulo
  • Thursday, 20 February, 2025
    Review
    Figures in Extinction explores life, the universe and everything

    The third and final part of Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney’s collaboration is puzzling and poignant

  • Thursday, 20 February, 2025
    HTSI
    Sadler’s Wells East sparks a dance revolution

    Artistic director Alistair Spalding and associate artist Jules Cunningham inaugurate a new venue – and everyone’s invited 

    Jules Cunningham, left, and Alistair Spalding in the performance space at Sadler’s Wells East
  • Monday, 17 February, 2025
    Review
    Pina Bausch’s ‘Vollmond’ has the recipe for a terrific show — just add water

    At London’s Sadler’s Wells, Tanztheater Wuppertal’s dancers revel in a piece that creates exquisite stage pictures

    Two dancers embrace on stage amid a shower of water; behind them is a large boulder
  • Monday, 10 February, 2025
    Review
    Is this the best dance piece on the planet?

    Christos Papadopoulos’s ‘Larsen C’ took the inaugural £40,000 Rose Prize in a busy week for London’s Sadler’s Wells

    A group of downcast-looking dancers dressed in metallic dark green costumes
  • Thursday, 30 January, 2025
    Review
    What will be named the world’s best new dance production?

    Kyle Abraham opened the competition for the inaugural £40,000 Rose International Dance Prize — and will be tough to beat

    A male dancer reclines on the floor, supported by his arms, one leg extended, head tilted back
  • Wednesday, 29 January, 2025
    Review
    A polished and expressive triple bill from Northern Ballet

    Mthuthuzeli November’s combative ‘Fools’ was the climax of the company’s programme at London’s Linbury Theatre

    A male dancer stands on an oil drum and swings by one hand from a telephone pole under a street lamp, the other arm outstretched; behind him is a tin shack. A female dancer stands below, reaching out towards him
  • Friday, 24 January, 2025
    Review
    Five stars for the Royal Ballet’s miraculous Onegin — review

    John Cranko’s 1965 ballet is revived in London with a starry cast bringing their characters fully to life

    A male ballet dancer stands supporting a female dancer who stands on one foot with a leg stretched out behind her, arms draped in the air in front of her
  • Thursday, 16 January, 2025
    Review
    Erina Takahashi is heart-rending in English National Ballet’s Giselle

    Strongly danced production at the London Coliseum featured the ballerina’s penultimate performance with the company

    In a scene from a ballet, a male dancer lies on his side, reaching up towards a female dancer, who holds his hand and places her other hand on his forehead; both wear sad expressions. In the background is a grave marked by a crucifix
  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    How To Spend It In...
    Choreographer Sean Bankhead’s A-Z of Atlanta

    The dancer behind Beyoncé and Lil Nas X’s viral music videos nominates the clubs, cooks and communities of ‘Black Hollywood’

    Sean Bankhead at Piedmont Park in Atlanta
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