Dance
Varmints - review
The landscape is quiet and peaceful. Birds swoop across the sky; bees buzz dozily amid the flowers. In a field, a strange creature that looks a little like a rabbit tends a plant and frolics on the grass. But something more sinister is stirring. Soon the
Heads Up: Manchester International Festival
What are we talking about? The Manchester International Festival - the city's fourth biennial event, combining new art, film, music, theatre, dance, talks, and installations.
Puz/zle - Sadler's Wells
Puz/zle is the brand new work from Sadler’s Wells Associate Artist, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Puz/zle questions the seeming importance of order and linearity, and explores if there is more than one way of solving a puzzle, telling a tale and simply living.
Hansel and Gretel, Royal Ballet, Linbury Studio Theatre, Covent Garden, review
The Royal Ballet's Hansel and Gretel grips with warped pleasures in the first act, but loses its way in the second, says Mark Monahan.
Dance review: Some Like It Hip Hop, Peacock Theatre, London
Some Like It Hip Hop sails back into the West End on wave after wave of brilliant dancing. ZooNation
Riccardo Buscarini wins
Italian dancer and choreographer Riccardo Buscarini has won the
Mayerling, at Royal Opera House
Edward Watson was matched by a uniformly superb cast in this revival of Kenneth MacMillan's Mayerling, says Louise Levene.Puz/zle - review
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's work has always been about making connections: between different dance forms; religions and rituals; art and science. But in Puz/zle, it's the urge to connect that itself becomes his subject, as it addresses the human compulsion toSidi Larbi Cherkaoui's Puz/zle, Sadler's Wells, review
The graphical oddity of the title Puz/zle reflects the structure of the staging in Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's new piece.