Sara Baras Sombras creates something of a flamenco cathedral onstage, complete with stained glass lighting, soaring music and vivid costumes. A monument celebrating and revering the form, it runs like…
A rare and profound piece of technical brilliance and emotional depths, Fairy Tales by Step Change Studios is a dance production unlike any other. Set up by Rashmi Becker, Step…
The batteries are removed from the clock on the wall; an angel and surgeons officiate a supper with Satan; a giant game of hangman is played with the audience. These…
The foyers are alive with activity on the night of Sadler’s Wells Sampled, a richly diverse celebration of dance and a sneak peek at what is coming up later in…
Since she is a weird and swirling underworld of figures and images cut from mythology and nightmares. Created by Dimitris Papaioannou, bodies appear and disappear in a carbonised, apocalyptic landscape…
Cirque Éloize is a slick group of multi-talented circus performers. As well as the more standard juggling, tumbling and aerial acts, almost all of the performers can also play a…
The impassioned story of Swan Lake,accompanied by Tchaikovsky’s flawless score, has become a festive classic on stages around the world. The classical ballet contains the infamous dual role of Odette/Odile,…
Where are we going? What have we become? Dystopian Dream is a production of extraordinary depth and significance, touching on eternal themes of life, death and human relationships. It is…
Matthias Sperling’s work Now That We Know, which revisited Sadler’s Wells at the beginning of November, is an extraordinary and very unusual work. It challenges our perceptions of dance, the…