This has been an extraordinarily exciting fortnight, on and off stage. Premieres in anything from ice-skating to classical ballet, charismatic…

English ballet erupted out of the second world war in the hands of the rival choreographers Frederick Ashton and Robert…

GCSE Eng Lit pupils are doing well from dance this season with two set books told in the medium of…

What can the Royal Opera House be insinuating about its target audience? No sooner had Anna Nicole closed than Manon…

Last week, the feast of long-awaited dance events on offer echoed bygone days when London life was dominated by the…

According to some textbooks, one thing the fathers of Soviet choreography hastened to remove from ballet was that awkward-looking language…

Aesthetically speaking, last week’s performance by the Nederlands Dans Theater 1 was one by the slickest of the season. Fashionably…

Swans, swans, more swans. If the lifespan of a dance critic were calculated by the number of performances of Swan…

Forget the pedantic classifications of genres, styles and schools. When it comes to dance performances, it all boils down to…

George Balanchine’s Serenade, the manifesto of 20th-century neoclassical choreography, requires a deep understanding of both its complex stylistic nuances and…

In a dance world that has chosen to dispense with stylistic and semantic subtleties, ‘narrative ballet’ and ‘story ballet’ are…

What’s in a definition? As far as theatre dance is concerned, quite a lot. Labelling — and often labelling for…

Louis XIV might have been a narcissistic and whimsical tyrant, but he did a lot for dance. An accomplished practitioner,…