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Tried and Tested
Dance
An award-winning work of minimalist rigour, Australian company Chunky Move’s 4/4 had its UK premiere at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
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Dance
QDance Company celebrates the music and culture of Nigeria’s youth in Re:INCARNATION, which had its UK premiere at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
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Dance
Canada's top street dancers explore the impact of ageing on their performance in Crazy Smooth: In My Body, a rousin and inspirational show at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
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Dance
The dance section of the London International Festival of Theatre kicked off with France-based Ivorian choreographer Nadia Beugré’s L’Homme rare, a provocative study of buttocks and their putative meaning
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Dance
This year's edition of the London International Festival of Theatre, LIFT 2024, includes three challenging, but very different, dance pieces
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Dance
Alice Ripoll’s Zona Franca, currently at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, fails to make good on its highfalutin’ claims to be a commentary on present-day Brazil
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Dance
The Russian ballet superstar Natalia Osipova dances Carmen in the London premiere at the Queen Elizabeth Hall of a deeply unsatisfactory tailor-made work
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Dance
Choreographer Didy Veldman talks to Culture Whisper about her new Carmen, tailor-made for the Russian superstar ballerina Natalia Osipova
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Dance
May offers some unmissable dance shows
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Dance
Holly Blakey’s Cowpuncher My Ass, a post-punk deconstruction of Western movies dressed by the Vivienne Westwood House, provided a fun outing at the Southbank’s Queen Elizabeth Hall
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Dance
In her brand-new work Staging Schiele, choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh evokes the extraordinary work and tragically short life of the Austrian painter Egon Schiele
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Dance
Belfast in all its complexity took centre-stage at the Southbank for one performance only of Oona Doherty’s Hard to Be Soft, as part of DU19
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Dance
Sweden’s contemporary dance company, Cullbert Ballet, joins forces with post-modern choreographer Deborah Hay in Figure a Sea, coming to the Southbank in September
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Dance
The Russian ballet superstar Natalia Osipova continues her exploration of contemporary dance in The Mother, a harrowing work by the in-demand choreographer Arthur Pita
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Classical Music
The City of London Sinfonia presents Absolute Bird: a spring concert series that celebrates birdsong at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Southwark Cathedral
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Dance
The intensely sensual atmosphere of Brazil pervaded the Southbank’s Queen Elizabeth Hall during the UK premiere of Deborah Colker’s Dog Without Feathers
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Classical Music
New works, a Beethoven commemoration, and a Lisztian tour de force at the piano head up the 10-month season
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Dance
The Belgian dance theatre company Ultima Vez returns to the Southbank Centre with Mockumentary of a Contemporary Saviour, a characteristically complex work by the choreographer Wim Vandekeybus
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Classical Music
Inspirational works by JS Bach are cut with contemporary compositions influenced by them. Featuring Roderick Williams
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Classical Music
Come and experience Aurora Orchestra's gothic showstopper Smoke and Mirrors at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, if you dare...
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Dance
The Flemish-Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and the Indian dancer Shantala Shivalingappa joined forces in Play, an ambitious cross-cultural performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
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Classical Music
Beautified and more comfortable, two premier concert venues reopen with a new look and a celebratory month of music. We pick the best concerts:
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Theatre
Wot? No Fish!! at the Southbank Centre is an original and touching, if slightly saccharine, portrayal of true and honest love
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Gigs
The Gary Crosby Quartet tribute to John Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme' comes to the Queen Elizabeth Hall.
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Gigs
Don't miss supremely talented newcomer Benjamin Clementine show, Southbank Centre.