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REVIEWS | Eoin Fenton

Tanztheater All-Stars

London loves Pina Bausch. The Tanztheater legend is an annual fixture at Sadler’s Wells, and her work still manages to be one of the hottest tickets in town.

REVIEWS | Faye Arthurs

Opposite Week

I caught the New York City Ballet’s two Winter Season premieres last week, and it seems that opposites are still attracting over at the Koch Theater.

REVIEWS | Elsa Giovanna Simonetti

The Beauty of Ballet

Continuing a project launched in 2019, lyrical singer Ekaterina Anapolskaya and former Opéra de Paris sujet, now professor at the ballet school, Gilles Isoart curated an evening of international guests conceived as a celebration of the nineteenth-century heritage.

REVIEWS | Eoin Fenton

Tears of a Clown

Created in the early sixties, Glen Tetley’s “Pierrot Lunaire” is a rarely revived little dance oddity.

REVIEWS | Kris Kosaka

Steps in Time

The National Ballet of Japan’s annual triple bill of dance, “Ballet Coffret” binged on three neoclassical favorites this year: David Dawson’s “A Million Kisses to my Skin” (2000) Hans van Manen’s “5 Tango’s” (1977) and George Balanchine’s “Themes and Variations” (1947).

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REVIEWS | Elsa Giovanna Simonetti

Electric Youth

In the second week of February, an ensemble of young and remarkably accomplished dancers presented a lovely and generously conceived programme just beyond the Paris city limits, at the Théâtre des Sablons in Neuilly-sur-Seine, as part of a tour spanning not only several French cities but also Spain, Germany, Switzerland and Malaysia. The evening unfolded as a carefully balanced succession of styles, allowing the dancers to reveal both technical assurance and interpretative maturity. Overall, the cohesion of the ensemble and the clarity of their stage presence matched those of an established professional company. Yet this was not, strictly speaking, the...

INTERVIEWS | Victoria Looseleaf

Hervé Koubi: Dance and Defiance

With their inimitable blend of contemporary movement and the no-holds barred athleticism of hip-hop and the meticulousness of martial arts, Compagnie Hervé Koubi creates a visual language unlike any other.

REVIEWS | Sara Veale

Tempests of Love

Oh to love and be loved, what a beautiful mess it is. Nobody captures the contradictions of passion quite like Pina Bausch, whose “Sweet Mambo” is cast in her signature silly-meets-sincere mould—another treat for us Bausch bods out here, less fetching perhaps if you’re not a fan of her highly mannered house style.

REVIEWS | Elsa Giovanna Simonetti

The Beauty of Ballet

Tanztheater All-Stars

London loves Pina Bausch. The Tanztheater legend is an annual fixture at Sadler’s Wells, and her work still manages to be one of the hottest tickets in town.

Performance

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: “Sweet Mambo”

Place

Sadler's Wells, London, UK, February 11, 2026

Words

Eoin Fenton

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REVIEWS | Faye Arthurs

Opposite Week

I caught the New York City Ballet’s two Winter Season premieres last week, and it seems that opposites are still attracting over at the Koch Theater.

REVIEWS | Eoin Fenton

Tears of a Clown

Created in the early sixties, Glen Tetley’s “Pierrot Lunaire” is a rarely revived little dance oddity.

REVIEWS | Kris Kosaka

Steps in Time

REVIEWS | Elsa Giovanna Simonetti

Dancers by Nature

Carolyn Carlson stands as one of the defining figures of contemporary dance. An American visionary shaped by the radical kinetic thinking of Alwin Nikolais in 1960s New York, she arrived in Europe in 1971 as a seismic force, dismantling the rigid hierarchies of the classical world to forge a new path for modernism. In 1974, she was appointed Étoile Chorégraphe, a title created specifically for her at the Opéra de Paris, where she led the pioneering Groupe de Recherches Théâtrales until 1980. Decades later, she would once again redraw institutional boundaries as the founding director of the Venice Biennale’s first...

Tend the Garden

The modern classic “Le Parc” by Angelin Preljocaj is a masterpiece that never ceases to interrogate the dialectic of nature and culture, confronting human behaviour as shaped by societal norms...

Performance

Paris Opera Ballet: “Le Parc” by Angelin Preljocaj

Place

Palais Garnier, Paris, February 3, 2026

Words

Elsa Giovanna Simonetti

INTERVIEWS | Lorna Irvine

Forty Years and No Slowing Down

From its first steps in 1986 as Dundee Rep Dance Company with at the helm, to the present day, Scottish Dance Theatre has sealed it's reputation as a forward-thinking company who pushes the limits of what dance can do.

REVIEWS | Garth Grimball

Recital Revival

Few established artists hold recitals anymore. The word “recital” feels both elementary and antiquated, evoking either children parading across an auditorium stage or a nineteenth-century drawing room where the gentry whisper secrets around a pianoforte.

REVIEWS | Victoria Looseleaf

Crash Out Queens

It’s not often that one gets to hear a soprano recital in an up-close-and-personal setting. And it’s even rarer that said soprano has a pair of dancers moving about the stage as part of the performance.

DANCE FILM | Karen Hildebrand

Moving Stories

The first moments of Risa show the petite Risa Steinberg seated at a sleek desktop in her New York apartment.

Twenty Years of Los Angeles Ballet

The ballet community in Los Angeles, quite large and scattered, is fond of opining that they live in a “tough town for ballet.”

Performance

Los Angeles Ballet: “Twenty Years of Los Angeles Ballet”

Place

The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Los Angeles, California, January 29, 2026

Words

Robert Steven Mack

INTERVIEWS | Sophie Bress

A Living Archive

Dance artists and scholars have long asked the same question: how do we document an art form that, by nature, exists in one moment and is gone the next?

REVIEWS | Sara Veale

Refuge and Resistance

In a week of humanitarian crisis, of bodies mobilised and menaced, what a privilege it’s been to take refuge in art that radiates integrity, conviction and splendour.

REVIEWS | Faye Arthurs

Opposite Day

George Balanchine famously said, “ballet is woman.” But unusually, in “Kammermusik No. 2,” he featured an all-male corps de ballet. I can think of one other men-only Balanchine dance, and it happens to be running the same week this winter season: “Prodigal Son.”

REVIEWS | Rebecca Deczynski

It Takes Two

What makes a good partner? For the dancers of New York City Ballet who are lined up on the stage—KJ Takahashi, Adrian Danchig-Waring, Emma Von Enck, and Sara Mearns—the answer is different, though together, their responses create a pretty comprehensive prescription. A good partner should be collaborative, honest, present, and sensitive.

Fated Love

San Francisco Ballet artistic director Tamara Rojo has often said she believes ballet should operate more like Broadway, where shows have previews and work through revisions before the real premiere.

Performance

San Francisco Ballet: Yuri Possokhov’s “Eugene Onegin”

Place

War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, CA, January 23 and 24, 2026

Words

Rachel Howard

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