Cathy Marston returns to performing, poetry and dance entwine in Wales and the Akram Khan Company inspires mass movement in the best short films to view at home
November 2020
Lockdown culture
Royal Ballet Live: Within the Golden Hour review – sheer, ravishing class from top to pointed toe
Francesca Hayward, Natalia Osipova and Marianela Nuñez are among the many stars in this exquisite mixed bill of classics and more recent work
February 2020
The week in dance: The Cellist/Dances at a Gathering; Message in a Bottle – review
The Cellist review – a joyfully giddy tribute to Jacqueline du Pré
January 2020
Jacqueline Du Pré’s life inspires new Royal Ballet production
The choreographer Cathy Marston drew on personal experience to portray the cellist’s genius and suffering
October 2019
Birmingham Royal Ballet review – noirish style and tragic love
Guests Ballet Black steal the show with Cathy Marston’s masterful The Suit, while newcomer Jack Lister offers little substance but plenty of style
June 2019
San Francisco Ballet: scorching dancers leave their hearts in London
San Francisco Ballet review – California dreaming and a Björk nightmare
May 2019
Dances with Jacqueline Du Pré and Dante in the Royal Ballet's new season
Highlights of the new season include a ballet by Cathy Marston about cellist Jacqueline du Pré, and Wayne McGregor’s take on the Divine Comedy
March 2019
Queen Victoria – the ballet: 'You think you know her. It turned out I didn't'
After her celebrated Jane Eyre, Cathy Marston is staging a revelatory regal ballet. She talks about binge-watching ITV’s Victoria and the politics of storytelling
May 2018
Big time sensuality: hyper Björk ballet unveiled in San Francisco
Arthur Pita’s show mixes eight of the Icelandic singer’s tracks into a cacophony of glamour, craziness and fairytale at the Unbound festival
June 2016
Jane Eyre review – a quietly enthralling classic
Restrained, but clear and fluent choreography brings the Brontë novel to life on the stage
May 2016
Jane Eyre review – bold Brontë ballet is anything but plain
Cathy Marston displays a novelist’s touch in layering characters in her wonderfully choreographed show for Northern Ballet
May 2013
Bern Ballett: Witch-hunt – review
Cathy Marston has teamed up with Edward Kemp to create an exhilarating narrative ballet, writes Luke Jennings
April 2013
Four women choreographers doing it their way
Sexism in dance: where are all the female choreographers?
May 2011
Bern:Ballett – review
Bern:Ballet's work resists the generic gloss of much contemporary ballet, but makes few concessions to its audience, writes Judith Mackrell
May 2009
Wuthering Heights / Underdrome
Luke Jennings enjoys Cathy Marton's Brontë ballet but laments overblown egos and budgets in Darren Johnston's new piece
Wuthering Heights
Linbury, London This is a ballet for those who have read the novel, says Judith Mackrell
Dance preview: Bern:Ballett: Wuthering Heights, London
