Benjamin Millepied’s Romeo and Juliet Suite review – a surprising, often thrilling experience
Choreographer’s queer, condensed version dissolves the boundaries of the stage and, in a brilliant passage of dancing, the walls of the Joan Sutherland theatre itself
May 2024
Benjamin Millepied on queering Romeo and Juliet: ‘In France they called me woke’
The Black Swan choreographer is bringing his unique take on Shakespeare to Sydney – involving cameras and dancers running outside the Opera House
May 2023
Carmen review – Paul Mescal’s moves will have his fanbase melting
Mescal and Melissa Barrera lead this modern-day version of Bizet’s opera, which awkwardly combines tough realism with high-gloss romance
June 2022
LA Dance Project: Be Here Now review – at close quarters with Millepied’s magnetic movers
LA Dance Project, Los Angeles Benjamin Millepied’s charismatic company shine in a performance shrewdly set to Caroline Shaw and Andy Akiho’s rich compositions
August 2020
Lockdown culture
No standing still: the best of lockdown dance
From an elegant ode to San Francisco to Japanese hip-hop in a park, here’s how dancers are tackling our new normal
July 2020
Lockdown culture
Grace, gravitas, galumphing – when dance marries magical music
Inspired by Bach, Mussorgsky and Ravel, works from Opera Ballet Vlaanderen’s archive reveal deep classical instincts
February 2020
LA Dance Project review - molten moves from the dynamic dozen
Natalie Portman's husband denies signing letter backing fired ballet director
April 2017
A Midsummer Night’s Dream review – when Bottom met Christian Lacroix
Paris Opera Ballet deliver a beautifully chic but variable production of Balanchine’s classic
June 2016
LA Dance Project review – Millepied goes for some Balanchine shine
Benjamin Millepied on quitting Paris Ballet and his LA 'love story' with Natalie Portman
May 2016
Summer arts preview 2016
Movers and shakers: the unmissable dance shows of summer 2016
Power couple Osipova and Polunin burn up the stage, the Windsors do Swan Lake, Jane Eyre becomes a Brontë ballet, and Pinocchio shows what it’s like to be human
February 2016
Bel/Millepied/Robbins review – parting shots
Benjamin Millepied: ballet’s black swan bows out in Paris
Dance blog
Benjamin Millepied and Paris Opera Ballet: a step too far
Benjamin Millepied resigns from Paris Opera Ballet
