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  • Tuesday, 5 March, 2019
    Review
    Affectionate farewell to Richard Alston Dance Company at Sadler’s Wells, London

    A programme of recent works celebrated the sheer breadth and depth of Alston’s musicality

  • Monday, 25 February, 2019
    Review
    Tanztheater Wuppertal’s Bon Voyage, Bob — self-indulgent prattle and shouty dialogue

    The late Pina Bausch’s company explores love and loss in Alan Lucien Øyen’s piece at Sadler’s Wells, London

  • Tuesday, 19 February, 2019
    Review
    Royal Ballet stars soar above Acosta’s mediocre Don Quixote

    Buoyant Marianela Nuñez and witty Vadim Muntagirov lead bravura dance performances

  • Friday, 15 February, 2019
    Review
    Tanztheater Wuppertal at Sadler’s Wells — Pina Bausch by numbers

    Chairs, smoking, nudity: Dimitris Papaioannou’s new piece contains any number of familiar tropes

  • Wednesday, 13 February, 2019
    Review
    Gallim dance at the Joyce Theater, New York — Andrea Miller’s new piece digs inward

    The choreographer’s To Create a World moves from the elemental to the emotional

  • Saturday, 9 February, 2019
    Review
    Angelin Preljocaj’s Gravité takes flight at the Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris

    The choreographer’s new work brings remarkable self-possession to its theme

  • Thursday, 7 February, 2019
    Review
    Does the Paris Opera Ballet lack direction? New works by Marco Goecke and Pontus Lidberg reviewed

    Dancers as humanoids and relationships like Benetton ads — elegant, gender-fluid, commitment-fluid

  • Thursday, 7 February, 2019
    Review
    In Royal Ballet’s New Work New Music, dancers stretch awake

    Choreographers were paired with composers for six short pieces at the newly remodelled Linbury Theatre

  • Tuesday, 5 February, 2019
    Review
    New York City Ballet, Lincoln Center, New York — Balanchine’s skewering lacks sharpness

    The choreographer’s 1974 duet Variations for a Door and a Sigh deserves more imaginative treatment

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  • Monday, 4 February, 2019
    Review
    Miracles of timing with Gandini Juggling and Alexander Whitley at Sadler’s Wells, London

    The latest collaboration between the troupe and the choreographer has bravura solos

  • Saturday, 2 February, 2019
    Review
    Justin Peck and Sufjan Stevens’ latest piece for New York City Ballet ends on a hopeful note

    Principia was performed as part of the New Combinations programme at Lincoln Center

  • Thursday, 31 January, 2019
    Review
    Has Benjamin Millepied finally found his comfort zone? L.A. Dance Project comes to Paris

    The influence of the troupe’s diverse dancers could be felt at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées

  • Thursday, 31 January, 2019
    Review
    Jaw-dropping and seductive, Tango Fire returns to the Peacock Theatre, London

    The troupe’s two-hour show is impressive, though some routines are over-embellished

  • Wednesday, 23 January, 2019
    Review
    Suresnes Cités Danse 2019, Théâtre Jean Vilar, France — original new voices

    The festival is showcasing talented choreographers from beyond the French mainland

  • Wednesday, 23 January, 2019
    Review
    New York City Ballet performs a rare Balanchine pairing at the Lincoln Center

    Set to Stravinsky’s music, Apollo and Orpheus are a contrast between playful and dark

  • Tuesday, 22 January, 2019
    Review
    Unknown Pleasures — a rewarding mixed bill at the Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris

    Ballet de Lorraine performed five pieces in a dance programme with an intriguing twist

  • Monday, 21 January, 2019
    Review
    An exhilarating double bill: Asphodel Meadows and The Two Pigeons

    The Royal Ballet revives Liam Scarlett’s satisfying work and Frederick Ashton’s classic

  • Saturday, 19 January, 2019
    Review
    Trio ConcertDance opens the Royal Opera House’s new Linbury Theatre

    Alessandra Ferri was the star of a piece that launched this handsome new London venue

  • Friday, 18 January, 2019
    Review
    Manon, London Coliseum, review — every step has been fine-tuned

    Alina Cojocaru is at the peak of her powers dancing Kenneth MacMillan’s dirty little anti-heroine

  • Thursday, 17 January, 2019
    Review
    Los Hijos del Director, Joyce Theater, New York — striking and maddening

    The Cuban dance troupe’s 90-minute piece El Ultimo Recurso formed part of the 2019 Cuba Festival

  • Monday, 14 January, 2019
    Review
    Akram Khan Company in the spellbinding Until the Lions at the Roundhouse, London

    The dancer and choreographer’s piece is packed with ravishing imagery and quicksilver movement

  • Friday, 11 January, 2019
    Film
    Girl — why a film about a transgender ballerina has sparked controversy

    The director, dancers and others offer their perspectives

  • Thursday, 10 January, 2019
    Review
    This Bridge Called My Ass at the Chocolate Factory, New York — a formless mess

    Choreographer Miguel Gutierrez’s performance piece descends into slobby purgatory

  • Tuesday, 8 January, 2019
    Review
    Contemporary Dance Festival at the Japan Society, New York — grief, butoh and a South Korean ‘Greek chorus’

    This adventurous annual showcase featured works from Japan and east Asia

  • Tuesday, 8 January, 2019
    Review
    English National Ballet’s Swan Lake unfolds with admirable clarity

    Derek Deane’s production at the Coliseum is unashamedly traditional, rich in drama and spectacle

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