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A unique, challenging and potentially mind-blowing cross-genre work, choreographer Jefta van Dinther’s Dark Field Analysis has its UK premiere in the Lilian Baylis studio
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After a somnolent summer, the autumn sees London dance come alive with a myriad of unmissable events. Here are some of the highlights
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As the Christmas show, The Snowman, marks 21 years on the London stage, Howard Blake, composer of its memorable score, leads Culture Whisper on a trip down memory lane
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Dance will be part of the mix at the 2018 Wilderness Festival, where Sadler’s Wells presents two engaging, yet contrasting shows
Tried and Tested
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This daring and exhilarating company will thrill audiences with their finely tuned rhythmic stomping and energetic drumming inspired by the fiery character of the Argentinian gaucho
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Grand Finale, choreographer Hofesh Shechter’s attempt to capture the uncertainty of our Zeitgeist, returns to Sadler's Wells this summer
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The second programme of Birmingham Royal Ballet’s visit to Sadler’s Wells, Polarity and Proximity, is a triple bill of deeply contrasting works
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Birmingham Royal Ballet’s brief season at Sadler’s Wells kicked off with its own production of Kenneth MacMillan’s masterpiece, Romeo and Juliet
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Sadler’s Wells introduces the conceptual artist Alexandra Weierstall to London, bringing her challenging work And here we meet to the Lilian Baylis studio
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Akram Khan’s farewell to full length solo performance, Xenos, is a bleak and poignant homage to the largely forgotten colonial soldiers who fought alongside the Allies in World War I
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Life is a Dream, choreographer Kim Brandstrup’s full length work for Rambert, makes for an extraordinary, transporting and haunting evening
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The glam and glitter of Bollywood return to the London stage when the Taj Express extravaganza takes over the Peacock stage once more
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Charlotte Brontë's novel of love's triumph over all obstacles, Jane Eyre, is now at Sadler's Wells, translated to the stage by Cathy Marston for Northern Ballet
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An intriguing dance work inspired by the craft of lace-making, Brocade, comes to the Lilian Baylis Studio at Sadler’s Wells, prior to appearing at the Edinburgh Festival
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On the seventieth anniversary of the arrival of Britain's first generation of Caribbean immigrants, Phoenix Dance Theatre portrays their experiences in Windrush: Movement of the People
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A dark and disturbing tale, DeNada Dance Theatre’s TORO: Beauty and the Bull has opened at the Lilian Baylis Studio
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Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud lose their way with DFS, a work that purports to fuse ballet, renaissance polyphony and Jamaican dancehall
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Tap dance re-energised by an Australian combo, The Tap Pack is guaranteed to have you swinging in your seat at the Peacock Theatre
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English National Ballet has assembled a fascinating mixed bill of American choreography in its Voices of America programme now showing at Sadler’s Wells
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The 2018 crop of the National Youth Dance Company did themselves proud at the Sadler’s Wells premiere of Used to Be Blonde
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One of today's most fashionable choreographers, Wayne McGregor, brings his own Company back to Sadler's Wells with his science-infused work, Autobiography
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Art and science, dance and circus collide in Charge, the latest Motionhouse production, now showing at the Peacock Theatre
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A powerful and audacious meditation on death, Alain Platel and Fabrizio Cassol’s Requiem pour L. confronts Sadler’s Wells audiences with their own mortality
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Choreographer Martin Lawrance talks to Culture Whisper about dance, musicality, and Cut and Run, his new work for the Richard Alston Dance Company
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Candoco Dance Company's newest double bill challenges established ideas of what dance and disability really encompass
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Canada’s foremost contemporary dance company, Ballet British Columbia, stunned in its London debut with a vibrant triple bill of works by women choreographers: What, When and Where