Gandini Juggling: Life review – a joyful love letter to Merce Cunningham
Gandini Juggling: Life review – Merce Cunningham tribute is a little gem
June 2021
Lucinda Childs: ‘In the US, my work wasn’t something people could deal with’
From being taught by Merce Cunningham to collaborating with Philip Glass, the choreographer who helped shape the New York dance scene – now ‘81 on paper’ – looks back
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
Cunningham review – powerful 3D documentary about a dance pioneer
This highbrow study is fascinating less for its fancy 3D footsteps than for its insight into choreographer Merce Cunningham’s life and work
Now in 3D! Merce Cunningham's mind-blowing dance
A superb documentary immerses you in the choreographer’s creations and shows off his own wild and weightless performances
December 2019
Best culture 2019
Top 10 dance shows of 2019
A snogtastic Romeo and Juliet from Matthew Bourne and an international dance-a-thon celebrating Merce Cunningham join a mixed troupe of winners
November 2019
The Sleeping Beauty; Rambert Event review – total ballerina focus and stale fruitcake
The Future Bursts In; Birmingham Royal Ballet: Mixed Programme – review
Royal Ballet review – sublime surprises from Cunningham, Tanowitz and Ashton
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
April 2019
Night of 100 Solos review – Merce Cunningham lives on
A star-packed tribute honours the choreographer’s ground-breaking approach to technique and staging
Night of 100 Solos review – a fresh and radical Merce Cunningham experience
Six decades of solos form an unsentimental and surprising celebration of the legendary choreographer’s highly technical dance experiments
'He said two things to me in five years. And one was thanks for the cheese' – Merce Cunningham remembered
He was a rail-thin, zen-like powerhouse who electrified dance – and his pupils. As Merce Cunningham’s centenary is celebrated, four disciples recall an unforgettable teacher
February 2019
Richard Alston for hire: 'Who will let an elderly deaf man loose on their dancers?'
The newly knighted choreographer is shutting his company due to cuts and has snapped his achilles tendon. But he’s full of optimism about the future
January 2019
2019 arts preview
Decadence and dystopia: the unmissable theatre, dance and comedy of 2019
Blanchett and Hiddleston get sexual, there are chills in a Glasgow tower block, Matthew Bourne takes on the star-crossed lovers, plus Catherine Tate, Tim Minchin and Ben Elton return to the road
November 2018
Merce Cunningham at 100: 75 dancers perform 300 solos in three cities
Three shows in London, New York and Los Angeles will be live-streamed in April, on what would have been the choreographer’s 100th birthday
April 2018
Constant craving: Julie Cunningham puts Sarah Kane's dark poetry in motion
Concrete Dreams: new show celebrates Southbank's history of performance
