wins a Rose D'Or television award for Balletboyz Michael Nunn and William Trevitt.
Posted: 9 May 2008
Patron HRH the Duke of York has officially opened two new studios which have been built on the top floor of the Place's Flaxman Terrace building
Posted: 8 May 2008
52 young ballet dancers prepare for the opening night of Jane Eyre showing at the Peacock Theatre 15-18 May.
Posted: 6 May 2008
It's May Bank holiday this weekend, so expect to find a selection of the best hip hop dance that the world has to offer appearing at Sadler's Wells...
Posted: 29 Apr 2008
A unique three year project at Laban will use scientific methods to examine the processes of identifying and developing talent in young dancers.
Posted: 25 Apr 2008
Kim Brandstrup talks about his new work for the Royal Ballet, which is inspired by Dostoevsky and has two very different casts, led by Carlos Acosta and Tom Whitehead.
Posted: 23 Apr 2008
Romeo & Juliet live happy ever after
- as danced by the Mark Morris Dance Group in New York's Bardscape festival this summer. Read more in the Guardian, 23 Apr 08
Posted: 23 Apr 2008
Newcastle/Gateshead is preparing for a full on three weeks of dance, kicking off on 2 May. Highlights include Rennie Harris Puremovement (USA); Phoenix Dance Theatre , DV8, Probe ( and Bonachela Dance Company (UK) and Kim Itoh and The Glorious Future (Japan)...
Posted: 17 Apr 2008
Opening on 28 April, highlights include The Kirov Ballet, Japanese choreographer Saburo Teshigawara & KARAS, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan and the Akram Khan Company with members of the National Ballet of China..
Posted: 17 Apr 2008
Sir Brian McMaster will chair an open debate on key recommendations of his recent report Supporting excellence in the arts at Sadler’s Wells this Tuesday 22 Apr 08. Come along to discuss the artist’s role in assessing publicly funded dance and performance.
Posted: 16 Apr 2008
- but the show will go on. Moonwater is at Sadler's Wells this week, from 16 - 19 April 08.
Posted: 14 Apr 2008
Dance in China
Modern dance was banned until the 1980s, but it's starting to take off. Tibetan choreographer Sang Jijia has just had an apprenticeship with William Forsythe. He tells Judith Mackrell how the new choreographic ideas he took back with him has been received. Read more in the Guardian, 3 Apr 08
Posted: 11 Apr 2008
Ballet Black
Neither English National Ballet or the Royal Ballet have a single black ballerina. Ravi Somaiya wonders why - and talks to Cassa Pancho - founder of a company who is doing something to address the balance. Read more in the Guardian, 10 Apr 08
Posted: 11 Apr 2008
- contemporary of Darcey Bussell and Sylvie Guillem at the Royal Ballet until 2000, is returning to the London stage – but in a play at the National Theatre rather than a ballet at the Opera House.
Posted: 11 Apr 2008
Pilar López
- died recently aged 95. "... was the last representative of the golden age of flamenco ballet in the 1930s and 1940s. She was considered a fine, serious classical dancer, but it was as a choreographer and teacher of young dancers that she excelled." Read an obituary in the Guardian, 7 Apr 08
Posted: 9 Apr 2008
Culture Minister Margaret Hodge appoints Wayne McGregor as first Youth Dance Champion.
Posted: 8 Apr 2008
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde's dark tale of beauty and corruption will be the subject of the next New Adventures production, opening at the Edinburgh Festival in August and coming to London in September.
Posted: 7 Apr 2008
