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Akram Khan’s intense, haunting remake of Giselle for English National Ballet returns to Sadler’s Wells

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Scottish Dance Theatre’s dancers shine in a double bill where original ideas suffer from a measure of self-indulgence

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Birmingham Royal Ballet brings two contrasting evenings of dance to Sadler's Wells

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The brand new iteration of London City Ballet brought its vibrant inaugural programme, Resurgence, to Sadler’s Wells as part of an extensive international tour

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The prestigious Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition crowned its winners in a performance that spoke of the excellence of RAD training

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ZooNation serves up an explosion of colour and exuberant breakin’ in The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, returning to the Linbury Theatre on the tenth anniversary of its premiere there

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Tickets are now on sale for the cinema screenings of English National Ballet's spectacular Swan Lake in-the-round, coming to a cinema near you this autumn

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Ballet Nights added another first to its seemingly unstoppable rise with a pioneering performance at Cadogan Hall, Sloane Square

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The Coronet Theatre's first ever site specific event, The Belt -Past and Future is helmed by South Korea's energetic Ambiguous Dance Company

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As Akram Khan’s iconoclastic Giselle returns to Sadler’s Wells, English National Ballet’s lead principal dancer Erina Takahashi discusses ballet's tragic heroine

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Brought to Sadler’s Wells directly from China, Wing Chun is a spectacular dance drama centred on the real life figure of Yip Man, a Grandmaster of Chinese martial arts

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The State Ballet of Georgia’s Swan Lake is a traditional production with luscious sets and costumes and variable dancing

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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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Christopher Marney, artistic director of London City Ballet, tells Culture Whisper his new company mirrors and updates an audacious earlier project

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Argentina's most thrilling performance troupe, Fuerza Bruta, returns to its London home, the Roundhouse, with is high-octane show, Aven

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Tickets are now on sale for the autumn period of The Royal Ballet 2024/25 season – an blend old and new, with much loved repertoire pieces alongside new creations

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Charming and thoroughly professional, the young dancers of London Children's Ballet return to the Peacock Theatre with The Secret Garden

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Yet another ill-advised Carmen hit the stage at Sadler’s Wells, this one Carlos Acosta’s new version for his Havana-based Acosta Danza

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The first summer edition of Ballet Nights, entitled New Futures, brought together uniformly excellent dancing in pieces ranging from classical to cutting edge contemporary

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Bundesjugendballett, the German National Youth Ballet, brought something uniquely powerful to the Next Generation Festival at the ROH Linbury Theatre

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Award-winning choreographer Kim Brandstrup completed his mesmerising mythological trilogy with Echo & Narcissus, a study of image, desire and dysfunction

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The Acrobatic Swan Lake by the Xi'an Acrobatic Troupe is a show like no other, blending classical ballet with breathtaking acrobatics

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The Royal Ballet School students took their turn in the ROH Next Generation Festival at the Linbury Theatre with a varied programme that highlighted talent and commendable discipline

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The Next Generation Festival at the Linbury Theatre came truly alive in its second programme, which brought together New English Ballet Theatre and Norwegian National Ballet 2

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Dance Revolutionaries is a new film that honours two choreographers, whose work changed the face of dance in the UK: Robert Cohan and Kenneth MacMillan

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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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English National Ballet’s spectacular Swan Lake in-the-round brought magic and glorious dancing to a packed Royal Albert Hall

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The Next Generation Festival opened at the ROH with a gloomy triple bill by Ballet NdB2, the junior company of the Brno National Theatre Ballet in the Czech Republic

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Sarasota Ballet continued its week-long residency in the ROH Linbury Theatre with a gala performance of short Ashton works rarely seen this side of the water

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Young dancers from across Europe take to the stage in the ROH Next Generation Festival at the Linbury Theatre

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The Royal Ballet joined the celebrations of Sir Frederick Ashton’s genius with programme that assembled two of his best loved works and a selection of shorter, rarely seen pieces

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Semi-forgotten Ashton works came to life at the ROH Linbury Theatre, courtesy of Sarasota Ballet, in the first of seven performances as part of the Ashton Worldwide 2024-28 festival