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The show begins with a single dancer slowly banging a drum-like object: the audience’s attention is captured from the outset. Live screams amplified by wireless microphones accompany this drum beat, and set the rhythm to which the dancers move. The Cloud Gate dancers m...

A hush comes over the audience at London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre. On stage, a suit-clad man reaches for a tape recorder. A woman in a lurid pink dress writhes on her back, hands outstretched. The floor is swallowed by hundreds of dead leaves. This is how the UK premie...

Cowpuncher My Ass is unlike anything you’ve seen before. Taking cues from London and the American West, this explosive dance show creates an inclusive space by both accepting and tearing down labels and stereotypes. Renowned British choreographer Holly Blakey is respon...

When Alice’s Adventures Under Ground first premiered a few years back, the thought of this frenzied and fraught production finding a home at the prestigious Royal Opera House seemed shocking. In a fantastical turn of events, Anthony McDonald has staged Gerald Barry’s o...

9pm, Lilian Baylis Studio, London. Myself and four other women are ushered into a corridor and given warnings by a strangely dressed theatre attendant, about asthma or epilepsy. We are then led through double doors, down a slope and into a dark, silent room. We enter i...

John Cranko’s ballet Onegin was performed with exceptional artistry at the Royal Opera House last week. Based on Alexander Pushkin's verse-novel Eugene Onegin, Cranko’s choreography depicts a romantic tale of unfulfilled love, while Kurt-Heinz Stolze’s arrangement of v...

The English National Ballet’s latest take on The Nutcracker at the London Coliseum continues a longstanding festive tradition, and is certainly one to see. Written by Tchaikovsky in 1892, The Nutcracker debuted in the same year at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg...

Keith Warner makes his return to the Royal Opera House, directing Verdi’s penultimate opera, Otello, with visual and musical intricacy. Based on Shakespeare’s tragedy Othello, Warner’s production accentuates the calamitous effects of jealousy and love. The mu...

On 29th November, choreographer Joe Moran and the Dance Art Foundation invited the audience into Sadler’s Wells' cozy and intimate Lillian Baylis Studio to present two new pieces of contemporary dance: the twelve-minute solo, Decommission, and the fifty-minut...