‘It’s like being on a love boat’: the dance trio embraced by Sam Smith and Madonna
After choreographing the video for Unholy and the queen of pop’s Celebration tour, French collective (La)Horde are taking a wildly eclectic show to London
March 2022
Lucinda Childs and Ruth Childs review – still challenging after 50 years
Seminal works from the 1970s are revived by choreographer’s niece and focus on the simple beauty of minimalist movements
A Lucinda Childs gem sparkles anew, while two extraordinary dancers explore what unites people and tears them apart
Dance Reflections festival: opening night review – rich and revelatory
A terrifically varied programme began by pairing daring new work from Brigel Gjoka and Rauf Yasit with Lucinda Childs’ iconic 1979 Dance
December 2017
Best culture 2017
The top 10 dance shows of 2017
Sgt Pepper strutted, Boris Charmatz gave us a buttock-scratching beauty and three men became Lady Macbeth – our critic picks the best dance of the year
September 2017
Leap over Beethoven: how his fiendish fugue inspired three dances
Dancers are cast as string instruments in a show set to the composer’s ‘frighteningly powerful’ late work. Lucinda Childs, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Maguy Marin discuss turning his music into movement
July 2017
Available Light review – a masterclass in movement
Lucinda Childs’s collaboration with Frank Gehry and John Adams remains illuminating 35 years on
Available Light review – Lucinda Childs' minimalist movers weave through John Adams' music
This exhilarating revival reignites the alchemy that the choreographer and the composer found with architect Frank Gehry
Venice Biennale: Putin has a hot date as dance surrenders to orgasmic quivers and S&M taboos
Marie Chouinard’s sexually charged debut programme sees dancers locked up like zoo animals then unleashed, while Vladimir Putin is taunted with whips – and made to dance with a Nubian Queen
May 2014
Dance blog
Repetition in dance: mindbending and mesmerising, or just plain maddening?
Judith Mackrell: In the right hands, repeated phrases and movements can work a bewitching alchemy – but when choreographers get it wrong, they risk sparking a scramble for the exit
Rambert review – now it's taking the Mick
Why is Rambert so generously rewarded when the company hasn't produced anything bold in years, asks Luke Jennings
Rambert review – a strutting Rooster and a mind-tingling Sounddance
Rambert's programme of revivals is full of rich pickings – from Merce Cunningham to Christopher Bruce's take on the Stones, writes Judith Mackrell
July 2013
Australia culture blog
Einstein on the Beach: 'People thought this was going to change the world'
Melissa Lesnie: Composer Philip Glass discusses the work that he and collaborator Robert Wilson hadn't realised was an opera, as it is staged in Australia for the first time in 20 years
May 2012
Einstein on the Beach – review
The belated UK premiere of Philip Glass's Einstein showed that for all its historical importance, it seems rather old-fashioned now, writes Andrew Clements
