Coming through injury
Rambert dancer Angela Towler was told she shouldn’t dance again after suffering cartilage damage in her hip – but six months later, she’s back on stage. “I have to think ahead, because when I’m 50 I still want to be able to walk. So I'm not going to be performing in all the works.” Read more in the Sunday Times, 7 Feb 2010
Posted: 8 Feb 2010
Richard Thomas, the composer behind Jerry Springer - The Opera is turning his attention to dance for a new revue about a modern day obsession…
Posted: 8 Feb 2010
So You Think You Can Dance? BBC1's current Saturday night show features choreography by the likes of Rafael Bonachela, Mark Baldwin, Matthew Bourne and Kate Prince. If you haven't seen it yet its worth checking out this Saturday's semi finals.
Posted: 3 Feb 2010
A new work by choreographer Angela Woodhouse and visual artist Caroline Broadhead will open this years Woking Dance Festival (19 February - 6 March)
Posted: 3 Feb 2010
This week the UK dance world is mostly in Birmingham! BDE is a showcase of dance performances, presentations, discussion and networking attended by over 500 delegates from the UK and beyond
Posted: 3 Feb 2010
- the biennial choreography competition is back this year - with a top prize of £25,000 and a slightly different format. Closing date for video entries is 26 February.
Posted: 29 Jan 2010
The Dance Training Accreditation Partnership (DTAP), is announcing several new developments in its work to develop quality standards for teaching dance.
Posted: 29 Jan 2010
A day of street dance workshops led by some of the UK’s leading hip hop artists raised over £3,000 for the people of earthquake torn Haiti
Posted: 28 Jan 2010
Help decide who gets a new award being introduced this year. Vote now for your favourite long-running London show of 2009.
Posted: 25 Jan 2010
After the success of her 2008 dance theatre production I Am Falling, theatre director Carrie Cracknell revisits contemporary dance for a new production
Posted: 22 Jan 2010
Winners include Paul Liburd, Amy Hollingsworth, Leanne Benjamin, Ballet Black, Melissa Hamilton and Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Posted: 21 Jan 2010
Take part in street dance workshops with Kate Prince, Kenrick Sandy, Hakeem Onibudo, Kymberlee Jay and many others, to help raise funds for the Haiti earthquake appeal at Sadler's Wells, this Sunday (24 January)
Posted: 21 Jan 2010
It's back and its bigger than ever this year, with £3 million of support from Legacy Trust UK, five regional hubs organising events, sponsorship from T-Mobile and aiming to get 10,000 dancers performing in Trafalgar Square...
Posted: 20 Jan 2010
A research project conducted by the Dance Science Department at Laban and The North Kent Local Authorities Arts Partnership has produced conclusive proof of the beneficial effects of dance
Posted: 18 Jan 2010
The fifth think tank on future directions for dance took place in the new Jerwood DanceHouse on the waterfront in Ipswich last weekend
Posted: 12 Jan 2010
A special family day for military personnel on Sunday 14 February will feature the Royal Ballet in Tales of Beatrix Potter and extracts from the opera La bohème.
Posted: 12 Jan 2010
English National Ballet celebrates its 60th anniversary year with a packed programme including Swan Lake in the round at the Albert Hall, a summer season at the London Coliseum and a new production of The Nutcracker.
Posted: 11 Jan 2010
The Times and Telegraph dance critics pick the main dance events for 2010.
Posted: 8 Jan 2010
Jerk surpasses Krumping
Chris Cottingham finds out about the latest dance craze to come out of LA, "“jerk”, a new offshoot of hip-hop from Los Angeles... It looks slightly ridiculous at first, like urban morris dancing or a unlikely hybrid of body popping and Riverdance." Chris Cottingham, The Times, 8 Jan.10
Posted: 8 Jan 2010
