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Dance
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, has revealed she regularly exercises with the RAD's Silver Swan classes. Here are details of that programme, alongside other virtual dance classes
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Richard Alston Dance Company bows out at Sadler’s Wells with Final Edition, a reminder – if one was needed – of all we’ll miss when the company is gone forever
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Northern Ballet’s Geisha is an evocative story of sisterhood and sacrifice coming to Sadler’s Wells in the spring as part of a nationwide tour to mark the company’s 50th anniversary
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Alina Cojocaru’s personal project, Alina at Sadler’s Wells, is an original blend of dance and film, conceived as a series of snapshots of her illustrious career
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Three diverse choreographers respond to Nico Muhly’s music in Drawn Lines, the latest programme in Sadler's Wells' Composer Series
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Breakin’ Convention 2020, the unmissable International Festival of Hip Hop, returns to Sadler’s Wells for a triumphant 17th year running
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Dance
Asia’s foremost contemporary dance company, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, returns to Sadler’s Wells with two UK premieres, Dust and 13 Tongues
Essential
Dance
The extraordinary ballerina Alina Cojocaru tells Culture Whisper that her forthcoming show at Sadler’s Wells is something very special to her
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Dance
Matthew Bourne's very own take on the classic 1948 film The Red Shoes, returns to Sadler's Wells for Christmas, following its acclaimed debut there three years ago
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Acosta Danza’s Evolution, currently at Sadler’s Wells, is a mixed bill made up of three enjoyable works and one monumental dud
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Dorrance Dance, aka tap dance for the 21st century, returned to Sadler’s Wells with the triple bill Myelination and other works
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Rambert’s junior company, Rambert2, took to the stage at Sadler’s Wells with an idiosyncratic triple bill that does its talented young dancers no favours
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Birmingham Royal Ballet ends a brief residency at Sadler's Wells with its accomplished and deeply affecting production of Giselle
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Birmingham Royal Ballet joined forces with Ballet Black to present a mixed bill that dealt with memories, love and revenge, and ballroom dancing
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Dance
In his new work, Silent Lines, Russell Maliphant continues his exploration of bodies in movement, to create a piece where old and new blend to mesmerising effect
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Dance
Rambert become the latest company to mark Merce Cunningham’s centenary with Rambert Event, a thrilling programme bringing together big names in dance, music and art
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DU19, this year’s edition of the Dance Umbrella Festival, opened at Sadler’s Wells with a powerful, haunting work, Gisèle Vienne’s Crowd
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Dada Masilo’s Giselle is a visceral remake of the eponymous Romantic ballet, which transposes the story to an African village and infuses it with a chilling measure of viciousness
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An exhilarating variety of work in Sadler's Wells Spring 2020 season. Tickets go on sale on 14 October
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater opened Sadler’s Wells Autumn dance season in characteristically vibrant and thought-provoking style
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Things to do
Classical music gets a surprising twist in The VERY Top Secret Dance Company's saucy new show
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Dance
The Russian superstar ballerina Natalia Osipova's own project, Pure Dance, returns to Sadler's Wells
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Dance
The 2019 cohort of the National Youth Dance Company enthused Sadler’s Wells with their end of year show, guest artistic director Botis Seva’s MADHEAD
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Rambert's ground-breaking programme of contemporary dance for the 2019/20 season has already earned it a prestigious and lucrative prize.
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San Francisco Ballet Programme D, the final triple bill of its Sadler’s Wells residency, brought ample rewards in works that ran the full gamut from gentle to uncompromising virtuosity
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San Francisco Ballet Programme C introduces London to three new works with varying appeal, from a traditionalist take on Bach to a modern day display of sporting virtuosity
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Seeta Patel’s The Rite of Spring, an original and accomplished reimagining of Stravinsky’s masterpiece, has a short run at The Place
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Rambert’s new triple bill at Sadler’s Wells features a startling new creation from the French choreographer Marion Motin alongside two early works from Wayne McGregor and Hofesh Shechter
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Dance
As three radically different versions of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring descend on London, we talk to Creative Producer Farooq Chaudhry, who’s been directly or indirectly involved with all three
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Dance
A radical cultural remake of Stravinsky’s epoch-making score is lost in translation in Yang Liping’s Rite of Spring now showing at Sadler’s Wells
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The maverick flamenco dancer Israel Galván brought La Fiesta, his idiosyncratic party, to Sadler's Wells, hoping to immerse the audience in the flamenco dancers’ traditional post-show celebration
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Dance
The exacting Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and her company Rosas join forces with cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras for a challenging interpretation of Bach’s 6 Cello Suites