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Dance
Matthew Bourne's iconoclastic Swan Lake with its corps of aggressive male swans is Sadler's Wells's offering this festive season
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Dance
The State Ballet of Georgia’s Swan Lake is a traditional production with luscious sets and costumes and variable dancing
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Dance
The Royal Ballet kicked off its spring season with an immaculate and emotional performance of Swan Lake
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Dance
Proving he’s still got it at 50 years old, the Cuban superstar Carlos Acosta returns to the ROH with a programme that celebrates a long, illustrious career in dance
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Dance
English National Ballet’s Swan Lake, now at the Coliseum, is a meticulous, often magical, production of this timeless classic
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Dance
Banish the winter blues with thrilling dance
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Dance
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, affectionately know as The Trocks, bring their witty, outrageous and unmissable brand of balletic spoof to the Peacock Theatre
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Dance
An Evening with the Next Generation at the ROH Linbury Theatre brings together students and young dancers from the UK and Europe in an eclectic bill
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Dance
The Royal Ballet's sumptuous production of the much-loved Swan Lake comes to a cinema near you in a live relay from Covent Garden
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Dance
Inevitably overshadowed by the war in Ukraine, The Royal Ballet’s sumptuous production of Swan Lake returned to the stage at Covent Garden
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Dance
A bumper month for dance in London
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Dance
Ballet, contemporary and dance-theatre offer a cornucopia of exciting work in 2022
Essential
Dance
As she prepares to dance the emblematic Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, newly minted Royal Ballet principal, Fumi Kaneko, talks to Culture Whisper about her life and favourite roles
Tried and Tested
Dance
Back at its former home in the Southbank, English National Ballet presents Solstice, a programme of highlights from its extensive repertoire showcasing the excellence of its dancers
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Dance
The Royal Ballet welcomed its first paying audience to the ROH with a mixed bill that offered a glimmer of light on the eve of renewed darkness
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Dance
London's only free open-air cinema brings together feature films and filmed Royal Opera House performances over a weekend in the Covent Garden piazza
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Opera
Ballet and opera from the Royal Opera House will be available to view in drive-in cinemas around the UK this summer
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Dance
Matthew Bourne’s hugely popular dance shows come to your TV in a Festival of Classics, including his seminal Swan Lake, to be broadcast on Sky Arts
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Dance
Matthew Bourne's legendary Swan Lake comes to a screen near you, following a triumphant sell-out run at Sadler's
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Dance
The Bolshoi Ballet returns to Covent Garden, accompanied by the Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre, for an exciting three-week summer season showcasing four spectacular tried and tested ballets
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Dance
Nutcracker season over, English National Ballet unveil their own Swan Lake at the London Coliseum
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Dance
BBC Four has a very special Christmas Day present for its viewers: a broadcast of the Royal Ballet’s sumptuous new production of Swan Lake with a stellar cast
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Themes
There will be Nutcrackers aplenty, but more than that, Christmas Dance 2018 celebrates winter in all its forms. Here are the key shows for London families
Tried and Tested
Dance
There is no better way to beat the post-summer blues than an outing to the Peacock Theatre to see the gloriously silly award wining comedy ballet troupe, the Trocks
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Dance
An environmental-minded deconstruction of Swan Lake combines with a cross-cultural encounter in the second of three programmes showcasing Korean dance at The Place
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Dance
Yes, it’s yet another Swan Lake, this time courtesy of the St Petersburg Ballet Theatre, bringing a little mystery and magic to Summer at the London Coliseum
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Dance
The Royal Ballet has programmed a series of Insight events to complement its brand new production of Swan Lake
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Dance
The Royal Ballet’s much anticipated new production of Swan Lake – its first in 30 years – comes to the Royal Opera House soon
In the Know
Dance
Tickets for English National Ballet's Christmas residency at the London Coliseum go on general sale on Monday, 19 March. In the programme: Nutcracker, Swan Lake and Manon
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Dance
Swan Lake migrates to the Irish Midlands in a gritty and powerful dance-theatre adaptation
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Dance
The Mariinsky Ballet returns to London for a summer season featuring the much loved classics Don Quixote, Swan Lake and La Bayadère
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Two significant anniversaries, five world premieres, a busy live cinema programme and the return of much loved classics - the Royal Ballet’s 2017/18 Season is a mouth-watering affair.