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The Royal Ballet serves up real magic for Christmas with its revival of Ashton’s enchanting Cinderella at the Royal Opera House

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Irish choreographer and theatre maker Michael Keegan-Dolan’s Nobodaddy is an anarchic, fragmentary work that uses the theme of death to celebrate life

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English National Ballet’s brand new Nutcracker is fresh, surprising and full of magic, artistic director Aaron S Watkin tells Culture Whisper

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Dancer and choreographer Akram Khan brings his latest work, GIGENIS: The Generation of the Earth to Sadler’s Wells, following its world premiere at last summer’s Aix-en-Provence festival

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Kentaro Kujirai unveiled some of the mysteries of Japanese butoh dancing with his piece U-BU-SU-NA in a short run at the Coronet Theatre

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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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Puzzling and infuriating in equal measure, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Exit Above has opened at Sadler’s Wells

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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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A cornucopia of dance across London

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Lost Dog's Ruination at the ROH Linbury Theatre offers the perfect alternative to the sugar and spice of the Christmas season

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Swan Lake has a circus makeover this festive season and becomes Duck Pond, performed by Circa at the Royal Festival Hall

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In an exciting cross-continents collaboration Pina Bausch’s reading of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring explodes onto the stage at Sadler’s Wells brought by a company of African dancers

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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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English National Ballet's brand new Nutcracker lights up the London Coliseum this Christmas season

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The Royal Ballet's magical production of The Nutcracker comes to a cinema near you this Christmastime

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The last Nutcracker of the season comes to the RAH courtesy of Birmingham Royal Ballet – and it's unmissable!

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Carlos Acosta’s much anticipated Nutcracker in Havana has opened in Norwich - in advance of its London run, Culture Whisper was at the glittering Theatre Royal premiere

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Carlos Acosta talks to Culture Whisper about his decision to transport the Christmas ballet to his native Cuba and turn it into Nutcracker in Havana

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Birmingham Royal Ballet delivers a creditable and enjoyable performance of Ashton’s La Fille Mal Gardée at Sadier’s Wells

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Urban jazz, tap and percussion combine to explosive effect in Stories – The Tap Dance Sensation at the Peacock Theatre

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In the first of two programmes in its brief Sadler’s Wells residency, Birmingham Royal Ballet presented the London premiere of Luna, its homage to the women of Birmingham

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Encounters, The Royal Ballet’s first mixed bill of the season, offers a thrilling look at the possibilities of ballet in the 21st century

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A multifaceted look at the intersection between digital technologies and the moving body, the first Digital Body Festival comes to East London this autumn

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Hofesh Shechter goes meta in Theatre of Dreams, a work of disturbing ferocity now on at Sadler’s Wells

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The Southbank performance programme for 2025 showcases international avant-garde dance

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National Dance Company Wales pays a brief visit to The Place with its latest double bill, Frontiers

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As she put the finishing touches to her new piece for The Royal Ballet, the American choreographer Pam Tanowitz talked to Culture Whisper about her way of making dance.

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The National Ballet of Canada’s Frontiers, now at Sadler’s Wells, is a diverse triple bill designed to showcase the range of the company’s dancers and Canada’s choreographic talent

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Ballet Black brings its double bill Heroes to Covent Garden as part of Black History Month

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The Royal Ballet opened its 2024/25 season with a reprise of Christopher Wheeldon’s very busy, very colourful and rather long take on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

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Following a successful UK tour, Richard Chappell Dance's Hot House has its London premiere at The Place

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Dance Umbrella 2024, this year's edition of the annual festival of all things dance and beyond, takes up residence in a variety of London venues and online