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Gemstone milestone for Scottish Ballet

02.10.09
As part of its 40th anniversary tour, the Scottish Ballet performs a mixed bill that tracks the progress of Ballet over the past four decades.... more

Will Alice be weird in Wonderland?

19.08.09
The world's hottest choreographer, Christopher Wheeldon, is to make a full-length ballet for Covent Garden out of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland... more

25 reasons to go to The Edinburgh Festival

01.07.09
After last year's letdown, the world's largest arts festival has got its act together to offer a thrilling array of entertainment next month.... more

Nowhere and Everywhere at Tate Modern

01.05.09
The best place to watch Nowhere And Everywhere at the Same Time is on your feet.... more

Footballer goes for keepy-uppy record

01.05.09
Footballer Dan Magness was on his way to a world record for keepy uppy today in Covent Garden as he tried to keep a ball in the air for 24 hours. The current record is 19 and a half hours... more

Forsythe stretches eulogy

27.04.09
For all his extremities, William Forsythe 's purpose remains intensely humane, albeit with painfully disruptive means.... more

50 ways to have fun in 2009

02.01.09
Priscilla on stage, Blur reunited, Michael Sheen as Brian Clough — we bring you the highlights of London’s arts calendar for the coming months. ... more

Bausch lights the candles for Sadler's Wells

04.11.08
Sadler's Wells has put on a gala for its 10th birthday, and the one-off result was an impressive reminder of all it has achieved.... more

Forsythe sagging in Sadler's Wells

14.10.08
The Mariinsky's first new-ish mixed bill at Sadler's Wells devoted to William Forsythe was disappointing, says Sarah Frater.... more

Theatre

08.10.08
Big musicals may dominate the West End and box office receipts, but straight drama continues to thrive. These are the key people who make this city the global capital of theatre. ... more

25 events to raise your spirits this autumn

24.09.08
Something might be rotten in the City but in London’s arts world there’s plenty to be upbeat about. Here’s our pick of must-sees to brighten up longer nights... more

Breath of fresh air for ENB

03.07.08
The English National Ballet occasionally looked under-prepared during their mixed bill at the Festival Hall, although Elena Glurdjidze was all radiance as the lead ballerina.... more

Seductive Scribblings

21.05.08
Scribblings is well named as the asymmetric and energetic dancing happily catches the loops and doodles of pen on paper.... more

Dancing to a new beat

29.01.08
With his signature dance left firmly in the 1980s, eclectic director Édouard Lock tells Keith Watson how he’s returned to his roots, using ballet to influence his artistic output.... more

Catching the mysteries of love

10.01.08
I Am Falling, a new pub dance production, is a sensitive miniature, a moving story intriguingly told, says Sarah Frater.... more

Living up to the hype

20.09.07
Wonderfully danced but with no story, this collection of plotless ballets at Sadler's Wells will try the patience of all but the most commited modernists.... more

Belgians bumble in the jumble

20.08.07
The Royal Ballet of Flanders performance of Impressing the Czar at the Edinburgh Festival was short on good dancers and charisma.... more

Edinburgh Festival highlights

24.07.07
From theatre to comedy, music and film, our critics pick the best of the Edinburgh Festival.... more

Dance that takes no prisoners

02.07.07
Even if you see a lot of dance, and even if you've seen it before, William Forsythe's One Flat Thing, Reproduced comes as a howling, dazzling surprise.... more

Honed to a fine pointe

12.06.07
Sofiane Sylve couldn't turn down the lead role in Swan Lake at the Royal Albert Hall - "it's the role every little girl dreams of dancing when she takes up ballet", she tells Keith Watson.... more

Darcey bows out gracefully

16.05.07
As fans struggle to accept Darcey Bussell is leaving The Royal Ballet, the ballerina says she'll miss the limelight as she performs her farewell show.... more

Variations steals the show

09.11.06
The Dutch National Ballet's mixed bill is crisply danced and impeccably staged and includes the wonderful Frank Bridge Variations.... more

The best dance in town

13.10.06
William Forsythe's latest work and Coppelia at the Royal Ballet are Sarah Frater's pick of the capital's current choreographic delights.... more

Conflicting agendas

12.10.06
Anyone hoping choreographer William Forsythe would mellow with age will find little comfort in Three Atmospheric Studies, a ballet with which he rattles theatrical and political cages.... more

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