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Dance 

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

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Dance 

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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Dance 

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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Dance 

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

In the Know

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

Dance 

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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Dance 

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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Dance 

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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Dance 

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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Dance 

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