Adelaide festival 2024: giant whalebones pierce the sunset for ‘transformative’ opening night
The ambitious opening statement is taking over the city’s most popular beach, ahead of a festival that marries big names with moving stories of Country
October 2023
Dancing dreams: 25 stunning scenes at Sadler’s Wells – in pictures
This month, Sadler’s Wells celebrates the quarter centenary of its current building in Islington, north London, which was remodelled in 1998. Revisit 25 shows from those years
June 2023
Best culture of 2023 so far
The best films of 2023 so far
Cate Blanchett’s unravelling conductor, Spielberg’s semi-memoir and the stop-motion tale of a shell wearing shoes all feature in the pick of the year released in the UK to date
February 2023
Creature review – Asif Kapadia and Akram Khan join up for intriguing dance film
‘Nature will punish you’: Asif Kapadia and Akram Khan on their climate crisis dance film
October 2022
‘Don’t worry, just watch’: how do you tell a story through dance?
Even the best-known ballets can baffle newcomers so what can choreographers do to avoid audiences getting lost? From Matthew Bourne’s fairytales to staging Margaret Atwood and Peaky Blinders, we find out
April 2022
Akram Khan’s Jungle Book Reimagined review – a bleak post-apocalyptic vision
A grim, sporadically great show sees Mowgli saved by animals who have taken over idle land in the wake of climate disaster
January 2022
Prime mover: Tamara Rojo at English National Ballet – in pictures
Tamara Rojo has announced that she is leaving English National Ballet after 10 years as artistic director. Revisit the productions she starred in and presented during her reign
November 2021
Outwitting the Devil review – Akram Khan’s dancers defy all limits
The plot of this reworked Gilgamesh myth may be near-impossible to follow – but its dazzling performers are hard to resist
October 2021
Creature review – Akram Khan struggles with the weight of the world
Jeffrey Cirio and Erina Takahashi dazzle for a sharp ENB, but this long-awaited new work is all message, no story
Ballerina Erina Takahashi: ‘I didn’t think I would have this challenge at this age’
August 2021
Autumn arts preview 2021
Hamlet, Cabaret and a fistful of Romeos: the best theatre, comedy and dance of autumn 2021
Cush Jumbo tackles the troubled prince, Jessie Buckley and Eddie Redmayne head for 30s Berlin, while standup favourites and dance spectaculars burst back on the stage
July 2021
Manchester international festival: Sea Change; Breathless Puppets – review
Boris Charmatz gets Manchester’s communal toes tapping, while Akram Khan partners with hand-drawn animation in a coming-of-age tale
May 2021
Reopening culture
Aakash Odedra: Rising review – superhero speed with a light touch
Odedra revives his inspiring 2011 show of four solo works choreographed by himself, Akram Khan, Russell Maliphant and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
March 2021
'We are guests on Earth': Akram Khan to stage The Jungle Book as climate crisis tale
Choreographer’s new version, to be performed at Leicester’s Curve in 2022, reinvents Kipling’s Mowgli as a climate refugee
February 2021
Culture in peril
Devastating, unviable, admin overload: UK stage companies count cost of Brexit
New visa rules, taxes and transport restrictions are some of the hurdles British dance and theatre organisations must now overcome to tour Europe
January 2021
Lockdown culture
Dancing Nation review – Sadler's Wells extravaganza stretches across three hours
Lockdown culture
Quick steps: dynamic dance shorts to watch online
October 2020
Akram Khan Company: The Silent Burn Project review – potent tribute to a powerhouse
Three hours of interviews, dance and music celebrate the creative power of one of the greatest dancers of the 21st century
