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One of the most powerful works in The Royal Ballet repertoire, MacMillan's Manon, returns to Covent Garden on its 50th anniversary for a three-week run

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Festival 

Southbank's famous Imagine Children's Festival returns this winter half-term with a huge range of programmes for children and their grown-ups

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New Movement Collective marks the centenary of Stravinsky and Nijinska’s ground-breaking work Les Noces with the collaborative multidisciplinary Les Noces – A Departure at Woolwich Works

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English National Ballet’s Giselle brings the Romantic story of love betrayed and forgiveness to the London Coliseum

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The latest work from choreographer Russell Maliphant, Vortex, which alludes to his fascination with the American abstract painter Jackson Pollock, comes to BBC Four

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Northern Ballet brings its charming, hugely entertaining ballet for children Tortoise & The Hare to the Linbury Theatre

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A bumper year for dance in London

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A fertile year for dance in London

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Scottish Dance Theatre’s Pirates! – a zany, swashbuckling dance theatre adventure for the whole family – is this year’s Christmas offering at The Place

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English National Ballet dancers bring joy and glorious dancing to the company’s so-so Nutcracker now at the Coliseum

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Edward Scissorhands, Matthew Bourne’s stage adaptation of Tim Burton’s emblematic movie, is charming audiences at Sadler’s Wells this Christmas season

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The Royal Ballet’s near-perfect production of The Nutcracker brings magic to the Christmas season at the Royal Opera house

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Rambert's hit show, Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby, which adapted the popular TV series to dance, comes to the BBC with a special broadcast on New Year's Day

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December means Nutcracker and more

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Lunar Halo, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan’s meditation on the digital world and its impact on humans, is an accomplished visual spectacle now on at Sadler’s Wells

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In their first interview since joining English National Ballet, lead principal Sangeun Lee and first soloist Gareth Haw talk to Culture Whisper about this new chapter in their special partnership

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One of Brazil's foremost contemporary troupes, São Paulo Dance Company, makes its UK debut at Sadler's Wells early in 2024

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Rambert’s Death Trap, a double bill of dance-theatre works by the maverick Ben Duke, now at Sadler’s Wells, offers an overload of theatre and not enough dance

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The Mongol Khan brings a slice of Mongolian history and legend to the London Coliseum in a colourful, thoroughly theatrical spectacle

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Wayne McGregor’s The Dante Project, his sprawling, ambitious take on Dante’s The Divine Comedy, has its first revival by The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House

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Emanuel Gat’s LoveTrain2020 is a flamboyant vehicle whose initial thrills fizzle out way before the end

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Dance 

BalletBoyz marked their return to the stage at Sadler’s Wells with England on Fire, a huge collaborative project, that falls short of its lofty ambitions

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Immersive 

In her new immersive piece of dance-theatre, Lay Down Your Burdens, Rhiannon Faith turns the Barbican Pit into your local pub for a touch of community healing

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November dance has an international accent

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Dance Umbrella, London's international dance festival, returns for 2023....

In partnership with Dance Umbrella Festival

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Fresh from winning the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, Japanese choreographer Saburo Teshigwara presents Tristan and Isolde at The Coronet Theatre

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The Coronet Theatre celebrates Japan’s experimental arts scene

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Dance, a seminal 1970s piece by Lucinda Childs and Philip Glass, provided an early highlight for Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels

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Leading Singapore-based contemporary dance company T.H.E. presents the UK premiere of PheNoumenon at the Coronet Theatre

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From practising your pointe with English National Ballet to indulging your favourite 80s moves with Frame, we round up the best dance classes in London

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We Culture Whisper editors get to enjoy the best of London life in normal times. Here’s where we’re most looking forward to going after lockdown

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As the capital reawakens, we round up the brand new plays, exhibitions, concerts, dance shows and festivals to book now (or soon!) and enjoy later