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A trio of choreographers will weave three reimagined narratives into Warp and Weft, a programme of contemporary ballet at Marylebone Theatre

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A Festival of Korean Dance at the Place comes to an end with Ae-soon Ahn’s Cheok, a puzzling meditation on the standardisation of society

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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 

Northern Ballet’s Romeo & Juliet, now restored to its full glory, comes to Sadler’s Wells as part of an extensive UK tour

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Images Ballet Company 2024 showcases the talent of the latest group of graduates from the London Studio Centre in a programme that comes to the Lilian Baylis studio in June

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Immersive 

On the centenary of Franz Kafka’s death, the team that turned The Metamorphosis into a harrowing piece of dance-theatre reunite in Oxford to adapt the equally disturbing The Hunger Artist

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ENB picked its Emerging Dancer 2024 in an emotional performance at Sadler’s Wells, soon to be available to the general public on YouTube

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Sadler's Wells annual Flamenco Festival is back, bringing the sunny vitality and artistry of Southern Spain to soggy London

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May B, French choreographer Maguy Marin’s homage to playwright Samuel Beckett, is powerful piece of performance now at Sadler’s Wells

We Love

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The Royal Ballet honours its founder choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton with two programmes containing some of his best loved short works

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The Sarasota Ballet joins the massive Ashton Worldwide Festival, celebrating the legacy of the prolific Royal Ballet founder choreographer

Essential

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As she prepares to add the lead role of Hermione to her enviable portfolio, The Royal Ballet’s Sarah Lamb tells us about the ins and outs of The Winter's Tale

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Scottish Ballet’s gripping adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s play A Streetcar Named Desire, back at Sadler’s Wells, shows a company on exhilarating form

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Ballet Nights scores another first by taking a performance of New Voices to the Ministry of Sound

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Ballet Black brings its vibrant new double bill Heroes to the Barbican

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Jugglers extraordinaire Gandini Juggling reprise their best loved piece, Smashed, at the Peacock Theatre

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Dance 

Breakin’ Convention, the annual festival of all things hip hop, returns to Sadler’s Wells in its 21st year, bigger, brasher and more enjoyable than ever

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An exciting new commission by this year's Charleston Festival gathers choreographer Russell Maliphant, star dancer Reece Clarke and Dior to honour the unique Vaslav Nikinsky

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Dance 

The Winter’s Tale, choreographer Christopher Wheeldon’s compelling adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, marked its 10th anniversary at Covent Garden with outstanding performances all-round

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Themes 

As Sadler's Wells prepares to host her seminal work May B, the French choreographer Maguy Marin talks to Culture Whisper

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High octane perpetual motion is the basis for Boy Blue’s new work, Cycles, now on at the Barbican Theatre

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Dance 

Birmingham Royal Ballet floods the stage at Sadler's Wells with fine dancing and some magical moments in its landmark production of The Sleeping Beauty

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Let's All Dance presents Goldilocks The Ballet, a charming adventure aimed at budding balletomanes, in Sadler's Wells second house, the Lilian Baylis studio

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The undisputed master of the flamenco guitar, Paco Peña, brings his Dance Company back to Sadler's Wells with Solera, a journey to the very soul of flamenco

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Dance 

Hofesh Shechter's international youth dance company, Shechter II, comes to the QEH with From England with Love, a characteristically punchy look at England today

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Dance 

Rambert collaborates with LA-based choreographer Jill Johnson to present Analogue, a brand new installation that premieres at the Stone Nest in May

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Dance 

The foremost kathak dancers Aakash Odedra and Aditi Mangaldas served up Mehek, a sensual, emotional and visually dazzling show, at Sadler’s Wells

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Dance 

The 2024 edition of International Draft Works at the ROH showcases young, up-and-coming dancemakers from Europe and beyond

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Festival 

The Taiwan Festival at the Coronet Theatre is London's fist major celebration of contemporary Taiwanese arts and culture

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English National Ballet’s Carmen is a dreary and uninvolving show that tries but fails to add to our understanding of this popular tragedy

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KVN Dance Company returns to London with its modern day take on the charming ballet Coppelia

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Dance 

One of the most compelling and original dance-makers in the UK today, Mark Bruce, brings his haunting Frankenstein to The Place as part of a double bill