Dance On! review – bursts of joy and beauty from Mark Morris
This collection of dancers’ homemade films – in apartments, backyards or the great outdoors – connect in winningly lo-fi way
July 2020
Lockdown culture
Swan Lake in the bath and a quarantine Elvis: dazzling lockdown dance
With venues closed, choreographers including Mark Morris have been creating increasingly inventive work at home
March 2020
Step in time: how to save the legacy of dance from being lost in history
While Richard Alston’s company hang up their dance shoes, archivists and choreographers are grasping at ways to immortalise an inherently slippery art form
September 2019
Best culture of the 21st century
The best dance of the 21st century
Ferocious flamenco, bittersweet ballet and a harrowing masterpiece are among the greatest dance creations of our age
February 2019
Pepperland: 'If you're here for a Beatles singalong, that's not going to happen'
As their stunning Sgt Pepper dance show tours the UK, Mark Morris and Ethan Iverson recall how they fell for the album’s ‘hokey, vaudeville’ charms
November 2018
Layla and Majnun review – to hell and Baku with Mark Morris
Morris’s dancers are consigned to margins as the Silkroad Ensemble and two of Azerbaijan’s greatest singers conjure lovelorn drama centre stage
Layla and Majnun review – Yo-Yo Ma and Mark Morris's swirling tragedy
The cellist and choreographer present an ancient Persian love story with striking designs by Howard Hodgkin
Why I'm riffing on Layla: Yo-Yo Ma on rebooting the lovers who inspired Clapton
It is the ‘Persian Romeo and Juliet’ – a hokey old work full of paper beards, corny wedding tunes and lots of camels. So why has the great cellist teamed up with choreographer Mark Morris to freshen up Layla and Majnun?
February 2018
Sets by Picasso, costumes by Matisse: artists who designed for dance – in pictures
This year, Sadler’s Wells in London presents collaborations with sculptor Antony Gormley and the late painter Howard Hodgkin. Here are some classic examples of how art has mixed with 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
May 2017
Mark Morris: Pepperland review – Beatles with a touch of Broadway shuffle
The celebrated American choreographer swings into town for Sgt Pepper’s 50th birthday party
Pepperland review – Mark Morris's Lonely Hearts Club dancers are a dream
Using a bold new score from Ethan Iverson, the choreographer has created a gorgeously entertaining and witty tribute to the classic Beatles album
Five of the best… theatre shows
Tristan & Yseult and Pepperland: this week’s best UK theatre and dance
Brighton festival hosts the offbeat retelling of a Cornish legend, while Mark Morris premieres a work set to songs from the Beatles’ album
November 2014
Dance blog
National Dance awards nominations give young artists a chance to shine
Nominations for the 15th National Dance awards promise a vintage list of eventual winners as traditional boundaries crumble and the spotlight falls on younger rising stars, writes Judith Mackrell
October 2014
This week's new dance
This week’s new dance
Dance Umbrella | Dance Live
July 2014
Dance blog
San Francisco Ballet – an American company in Paris
Dance blog
City of dance: San Francisco Ballet's feverish summer in Paris
December 2013
Dance blog
Your move: what dance did you see this week?
Mark Morris Dance Group – review
November 2013
Mark Morris Dance Group: Programme B – review
Morris's idiosyncratic celebration of the nonsense poet Ivor Cutler is a funny, savage and tender masterpiece, writes Judith Mackrell
