Best Dance of 2018
A much loved ballerina returned; the most musical of choreographers brought a Central Asian love story to London after a long absence; hip hop continued to enthuse... 2018 was a good year for dance in London
A much loved ballerina returned; the most musical of choreographers brought a Central Asian love story to London after a long absence; hip hop continued to enthuse... 2018 was a good year for dance in London
The year ends on a high with the return of Mathew Bourne's epoch-making Swan Lake and its massed ranks of fierce male swans, now reworked for the 21st century. Bourne's Swan Lake is Sadler's Wells Christmas offering.
Read more ...In May Akram Khan said good-bye to full length solo performance with Xenos, his own homage to the Indian soldiers of World War I, in the year that marked the centenary of the Armistice
Read more ...Also part of the commemorations of the 1914-18 period, Shobana Jayasingh's visceral Contagion remembered the 5 million victims of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic
Read more ...The love story of Layla and Majnun, as told in an Azerbaijani opera adapted by the multicultural Silkroad Ensemble and choreographed by the American Mark Morris, dazzled at Sadler's Wells.
Read more ...A stunning London debut for Canada's Ballet British Columbia brought us a carefully picked triple bill of works by its alumna Crystal Pite, current artistic director Emily Molnar and the in-fashion Israeli choreographer, Sharon Eyal
Read more ...Another stunning Sadler's Wells debut: this time from Semperoper Ballett Dresden, in a triple bill of works by William Forsythe, with whom the company has had a long a fruitful relationship
Read more ...Boy Blue have done more to bring hip hop to diverse audiences than any other company. The welcome return of Blak Whyte Gray had the Barbican audience on its feet
Read more ...With the visually stunning I INFINITE the choreographer Tom Dale proved that real and virtual can coexist, complement each other and provide much food for thought
Read more ...In a relatively rare foray into London, Scottish Dance Theatre enraptured the audience in the Southbank Centre's Purcell Room with Velvet Petal, choreographer Fleur Darkin's reworking of the punk era for the 21st century
Read more ...2018 saw the welcome return to the stage of the delightful Romanian ballerina Alina Cojucaru, after the birth of her baby daughter. Her Aurora in ENB's Sleeping Beauty, garnered universal acclaim
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