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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 to

Sidi 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.

The Place prize - review

The judges for this year's Place prize might not be declaring their winner until Saturday, but already the public are deciding. Audiences at each of the 10 acts in the running have begun voting for their own favourite – and it is no surprise that, so fa

The Rite of Spring - a rude awakening

One hundred years ago the ballet provoked a riot and orchestras dreaded playing it. Now you can even hear it in Pret a Manger. The Rite of Spring is still astounding, despite its familiarity, argues Philip Hensher At the first performance of The Rite o

Midnight Express - review

Rarely has a dance production attracted so much gossip and speculation as Peter Schaufuss's Midnight Express, which last week looked as though it might be cancelled due to the sudden departure of Sergei Polunin, its advertised star.