An American in Paris

Christopher Wheeldon’s real gifts lie in abstract dance

24 May 2025 9:00 am

Christopher Wheeldon must be one of the most steadily productive and widely popular figures in today’s dance world, but I’m…

Fallen woman: Natalia Osipova as Amélie Gautreau

Notes on a scandal

20 February 2016 9:00 am

How could it possibly go wrong? The magnetic, seething Russian star Natalia Osipova playing the tragic woman in John Singer…

Off the page

16 January 2016 9:00 am

Dance has its own archaeological periods, and 2016’s schedules are confirming what 2015 indicated — that the era of dances…

Judy Garland as Esther Smith in Meet Me in St Louis (1944)

How Technicolor came to dominate cinema

14 November 2015 9:00 am

Peter Hoskin celebrates Technicolor’s 100th birthday

Better than Leslie Caron: Leanne Cope (Lise) and the company in ‘An American in Paris’

S’wonderful

3 January 2015 9:00 am

A new year must start with hope and resolution, and if you’re very rich, with influence in the highest places,…