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Javier De Frutos

October 2017

  • Trust and risk … Us by Christopher Wheeldon, from Fourteen Days.

    BalletBoyz: Fourteen Days review – daring dance created at breakneck speed

    Working to a tight deadline, Javier de Frutos, Iván Pérez, Christopher Wheeldon and Craig Revel Horwood respond to the theme of balance in new pieces, presented alongside Russell Maliphant’s Fallen

February 2017

  • Jonathan Goddard and Clemmie Sveaas, front, in Les Enfants Terribles at the Barbican, London.

    Les Enfants Terribles review – dark sibling fantasy

    Top-flight dancers, Javier de Frutos moves, Philip Glass score and Cocteau’s twisted tale don’t quite add up

January 2017

  • Les Enfants Terribles.

    Les Enfants Terribles review – Javier De Frutos teases out sex-games siblings' inner damage

  • Zenaida Yanowsky and Edward Watson in Les Enfants Terribles

    Cocteau sins: Les Enfants Terribles by the Royal Ballet – in pictures

  • Zenaida Yanowsky and Edward Watson

    Les Enfants Terribles: Cocteau's scandalous siblings dance on the edge

  • Family affair … Shobana Jeyasingh’s Material Men.

    Unmissable culture of 2017
    Lift-off: the must-see dance shows of 2017

April 2016

  • Judith Mackrell

    The Royal Ballet's new season: another tiptoe towards equality

    Judith Mackrell
    Alongside new productions by Wayne McGregor, Liam Scarlett and Javier de Frutos, Crystal Pite becomes the first woman to create work for the Royal Ballet since 1999. It’s another encouraging step by a ballet industry slowly embracing the 21st century and nurturing new talent

November 2015

  • Javier De Frutos’s Anatomy of a Passing Cloud, performed by Royal New Zealand Ballet.

    Royal New Zealand Ballet review – De Frutos's love letter to the Pacific

    Wild, muscular dance meets deft use of Maori music in Javier De Frutos’s joyful yet complex work for RNZB – whose intensity is hard to match

April 2013

  • Michael Keegan-Dolan’s 2009 version of the Rite

    The Rite of Spring at Sadler's Wells: 'It takes you to so many places'

    Nijinsky set it in tunics, Pina Bausch as a brutal battle of the sexes – so just how do you dance to Stravinsky's most violent score? Judith Mackrell talks to Akram Khan, Javier de Frutos and other leading choreographers about following the greats

March 2011

  • the most incredible thing

    The Most Incredible Thing – review

    Don't expect fairytale enchantment from Javier de Frutos and the Pet Shop Boys' adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen, writes Luke Jennings
  • Aaron Sillis rehearses the role of the clockmaker in The Most Incredible Thing

    De Frutos and Pet Shop Boys reach for the moon

    Pet Shop Boys and dance maverick Javier de Frutos have turned a Hans Christian Andersen story into a ballet. How did the moon landings end up in there? Judith Mackrell finds out
  • Javier de Frutos Eternal Damnation to Sancho and Sanchez

    Step-by-step guide to dance
    Step-by-step guide to dance: Javier de Frutos

    Sanjoy Roy: Javier de Frutos revels in the raw and the provocative but his new collaboration with Pet Shop Boys is for the family

June 2010

  • Javier De Frutos, choreographer, at Shakespeare's Globe

    Portrait of the artist
    Portrait of the artist: Javier de Frutos, choreographer

    'The worst thing anyone's ever said? I used to perform naked – a review ran the headline No Pants, No Thanks'

December 2009

  • Eternal damnation of Sancho and Sanchez

    BBC condemned for pulling ballet featuring pregnant nuns and wild sex

    Ballet by Javier de Frutos received rowdy reception when it premiered on the London stage in October

May 2008

  • Darling, I was awful. I could shoot myself

    The ever-challenging Javier De Frutos offers a feel-bad, but rewarding dissection of the horrors of auditions, says Luke Jennings

March 2007

  • Sex, blood and Stravinsky

    He was the wild young man of dance. Now, as he takes charge of his own company, Javier de Frutos tells Judith Mackrell how he plans to keep springing surprises.

April 2004

  • The Rite stuff

    Javier de Frutos, famous for his savage choreography, has found the perfect partner: Stravinsky. He talks to Judith Mackrell.

November 2001

  • Artistic row on long road to Turner prize

    A bitter artistic dispute over copyright between the Turner prize nominee Isaac Julien and choreographer Javier de Frutos, his former friend and collaborator, is overshadowing next week's Turner prize exhibition.

November 2000

  • Bring on the showgirls

    Choreographer Javier De Frutos sought grit and glitter for his new dance. He found it on a trip to Las Vegas.

May 2000

  • Jive and disarray

    Javier De Frutos
    Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
    Rating: * *

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