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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

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Ballet Nights Spotlight at the Lanterns Studio Theatre hosts the UK premiere of Imago, by the engaging British duo Pett/Clausen-Knight

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Sydney Dance Company returns to London after a 13-year absence with Ascent, a concept-heavy triple bill now on at the Linbury Theatre

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Sadler's Wells Elixir Festival returns in April to celebrate the contribution of older artists through performance, workshops, talks and films

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California Connections, a celebration of three women who pioneered new ways of dancing, brought rarely seen works to the Royal Opera House

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Reality and myth blend in Assembly Hall, Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young’s latest dance theatre collaboration brought to Sadler’s Wells by Pite’s company, Kidd Pivot

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The Royal Ballet celebrates choreographer Kenneth MacMillan with a triple bill that illustrates the stunning breath of his creative genius

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A stellar cast made this year’s Ballet Icons Gala at the Coliseum a memorable, if overlong, occasion

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Kids 

The Sticky Dance by Second Hand Dance offers children a chance to play an active part in a unique installation/show centred on sticky tape

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BalletLORENT's The Velveteen Rabbit at Sadler's Wells's Lilian Baylis studio is a special treat for young children this Easter holiday

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One of the most exciting neo-classical ballet companies in the world, New York City Ballet, brought a mixed bill of works old and new to Sadler's Wells

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The Royal Ballet kicked off its spring season with an immaculate and emotional performance of Swan Lake

Gary Avis – Shaping Characters with Empathy and Imagination

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The Royal Ballet Principal Character Artist, Gary Avis, tells Culture Whisper how he develops the compelling character roles crucial to bringing ballets to life

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Roommates, a mixed bill of six short pieces presented by Ballet National de Marseille at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, was a game of two halves.

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A promise of humorous narrative and entertaining choreography falls flat in Extended Play’s How to Build a Universe at the Place

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The Greek master of surreal visual spectacle Dimitris Papaioannou returns to Sadler's Wells with his water-logged show INK

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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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Opera 

The Royal Opera House marks International Women's Day with a two-week celebration of women at all levels of the performing arts

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As the war in Ukraine approached a grim two-year milestone, ballet dancers from across the world converged on the London Palladium for the fundraising show Dance for Ukraine

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Ballet Nights aims to forge a new connection between audience and dancers. To find out exactly how, Culture Whisper spoke to its founder and artistic director, Jamiel Devernay-Laurence

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The Royal Opera House stage pulsated with fresh ideas and splendid dancing in the four New Works of its Festival of New Choreography

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On a stage carpeted with 8,000 silk carnations, the dancers of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch re-enact her thrilling 1982 classic Nelken at Sadler's Wells

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Immersive 

The Royal Opera House kicked off its Festival of New Choreography with Canadian Robert Binet’s Dark with Excessive Bright, an immersive, yet strangely unaffecting work

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Singapore’s T.H.E Dance Company brought beautiful dancers, impenetrable dance and the worst ever version of Ravel’s Bolero to the Coronet Theatre

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Immersive 

The Royal Opera House hosts a Festival of New Choreography showcasing new and diverse dance-makers from the UK and beyond

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The prolific American choreographer Jessica Lang talks to Culture Whisper about her first commission for The Royal Ballet, Twinkle, a work that’s star-studded in more ways than one

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Alina Cojocaru and Matthew Ball lead a small cast in choreographer Kim Brandstrup’s entrancing double bill Metamorphoses now at the Theatre Royal, Bath

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Physical theatre company Ockham’s Razor brings Tess, a feminist version of Thomas Hardy’s novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles to the Peacock Theatre, as part of the inaugural MimeLondon festival

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A child-friendly version of Swan Lake returns to the stage this spring, as part of English National Ballet and English National Ballet School's My First Ballet project

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The internationally renowned ballerina Alina Cojocaru commissioned and stars in the new ballet La Strada after Fellini’s landmark film, now on stage at Sadler’s Wells

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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

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International ballet stars come together with dancers with disabilities in Empower in Motion, a gala to raise funds for work with children and youngsters with disabilities hosted by Sadler's Wells