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Dance
Choreographer Wayne McGregor’s staggeringly ambitious three-Act work MaddAddam, has opened at Covent Garden, following its 2022 world premiere in Canada
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Classical Music
Big names from music, dance, visual arts and AI come together at the Southbank for a daringly reimagined concert production of Szymanowski's Harnasie
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Sadler's Wells presents a double dose of Wayne McGregor over a week when it hosts an updated version of his Autobiography followed by UniVerse: A Dark Crystal Odyssey
Tried and Tested
Dance
Wayne McGregor’s The Dante Project, his sprawling, ambitious take on Dante’s The Divine Comedy, has its first revival by The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House
Tried and Tested
Dance
The Royal Ballet’s last programme of the season features works by Wayne McGregor, Christopher Wheeldon and Kenneth MacMillan in a triple bill of contrasting aesthetics and emotions
Tried and Tested
Dance
Wayne McGregor’s UniVerse: A Dark Crystal Odyssey, his take on the worrying state of our planet, fills the Linbury Theatre with powerful images of despair and redemption
In The Know
Dance
May has an international flavour
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Dance
The new cohort of National Youth Dance company strut their stuff in Novacene directed by Wayne McGregor and costumed by Grace Wales Bonner
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Dance
Summer 2023 welcomes the return to London of the Australian Ballet, says goodbye to a much-loved Royal Ballet ballerina and celebrates a very special birthday
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Dance
Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works, the choreographer’s homage to Virginia Woolf, returns to the stage at Covent Garden
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Dance
Tickets for The Royal Ballet's Spring period are now on sale. Whether it's Ashton's Cinderella or a new Wayne McGregor, fascinating works are on offer
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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
There's light and shade, and old and new in the packed 2022/23 Royal Ballet season, which has just been announced
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Dance
A Sunday of ballet on BBC Four as part of the corporation's extensive programme of dance for 2022 to be broadcast on TV, radio, iPlayer and Sounds.
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Dance
Wayne McGregor’s The Dante Project, a new ballet inspired by The Divine Comedy, will be available to stream on the Royal Opera House's digital platform
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
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Opera
Tickets are now on sale to the general public for the Royal Opera House's first full season of ballet and opera since the start of the pandemic
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Dance
The Royal Ballet’s last programme of the season, 'Beauty Bill', showcasing the excellence of its soloists and talented lower ranks, is livestreamed on 9 July
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Dance
Director of the Royal Ballet Kevin O’Hare tells Culture Whisper he’s excited to announce details of the 2021/22 programme, his first full season in a while
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Opera
It's not all solemnity at the first live streaming from the Royal Opera House: a cluster of songs about pets lightens the mood
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Dance
Live ballet returned to the stage at the Royal Opera House as part of Live from Covent Garden, a series of socially distanced performances streamed on Saturdays
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Dance
The Royal Ballet’s Spring Triple Bill brings together works by associate artists Wayne McGregor and Christopher Wheeldon, and a powerful vintage piece by George Balanchine
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Dance
McGregor and Mugler, big names in dance and fashion respectively, provide the bait for a strange triple bill at the London Coliseum
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Opera
Choreographer Wayne McGregor directs the first of ENO's four operas on the Orpheus myth, spanning three centuries. Gluck's version stars Alice Coote, Sarah Tynan and Soraya Mafi
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Dance
Rambert’s new triple bill at Sadler’s Wells features a startling new creation from the French choreographer Marion Motin alongside two early works from Wayne McGregor and Hofesh Shechter
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Dance
The Royal Opera House’s newly refurbished Linbury Theatre opened its doors to live performance with TRIO Concert/Dance, a short programme featuring the sublime ballerina Alessandra Ferri
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Dance
The biggest annual showcase of new choreography in the UK, Resolution 2019 is upon us with four weeks of good, not so good and decidedly bizarre work at The Place
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Dance
Dance takes pride of place this autumn on the brand new arts and culture online TV service Marquee.TV. Here are some of the highlights
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Dance
The Royal Ballet revives two contrasting works from Wayne McGregor and George Balanchine to frame the world premiere of a new ballet by Alastair Marriott
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Dance
On the centenary of the birth of Leonard Bernstein, his daughter Nina remembers a musician who ‘lived many lives in one' and left behind a tremendous legacy
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Dance
The Royal Ballet’s last mixed bill of the current season consists of three strongly contrasting works with something for everyone
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Dance
The UK biggest dance festival for emerging artists, Resolution 2018, returns to The Place bigger and bolder than ever