Phoenix Dance Theatre review – triple bill swings from tortured to tender
Belonging: Loss. Legacy. Love brings together work by Phoenix’s new boss Marcus Jarrell Willis, Miguel Altunaga and Dane Hurst
June 2023
The week in classical: Requiem; Jerusalem Quartet review – another five-star fusion from Opera North
Sorrowful Mozart meets unstoppable Neo Muyanga in an inspired double bill from Opera North and Phoenix Dance Theatre. Plus, the sounds of Yiddish cabaret…
August 2022
‘My mum used to cook for the Wailers!’: Leeds puts its West Indian history on display
With illegal blues parties in basements and impassioned activism across the city, Windrush was more than just a London story – as this new string of events proves
March 2022
Phoenix Dance Theatre review – tender and tense performances mark 40 years
The Leeds-based company come out fighting with family stories, purposeful dancing and a boxing-themed finale
July 2021
Home listening
Classical home listening: Nino Rota, Philip Glass and Stravinsky
An all-star recording or Rota’s chamber music is a revelation
December 2020
'Keep making, keep moving!' Phoenix Dance Theatre's new boss Dane Hurst
The dancer, who has been announced as the new artistic director of the Leeds-based company, shares his ambitions for the future
February 2020
Black Waters review – a muddied outcry against colonial horrors
Black Waters: the dance exposing Britain's colonial horror
January 2020
2020 culture preview
Star debuts and happy returns: theatre, dance and comedy in 2020
Tom Stoppard gets personal, Cush Jumbo does Hamlet, Hollywood names bring everything from tragedy to comedy … plus dance confronts shame and there’s standup open heart surgery
February 2019
Culture highlights of the week
What to see this week in the UK
From Notting Hill to Fatboy Slim, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days
April 2018
Culture highlights of the week
What to see this week in the UK
From Funny Cow to Julian Opie, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days
March 2018
Windrush review – upbeat tribute to a generation who transformed Britain
Sharon Watson’s ambitious show retraces the steps of the Caribbean passengers who landed on British shores 70 years ago
February 2018
Windrush: Movement of the People review – fresh moves off the boat
Culture highlights of the week
What to see this week in the UK
April 2016
This week's new dance
This week’s new dance
Phoenix Dance Theatre | Alexander Whitley Dance Company
December 2015
Dancers' diaries
Dancer Vanessa Vince-Pang: 'the audience’s energy feeds us'
On tour, Phoenix Dance Theatre’s performers can play several characters in a single night – you lose yourself in one role then dive into the next
November 2015
Phoenix Dance Theatre review – dark, deviant fantasy … and balloons
The Leeds-based company marks 35 years with a triple bill kicking off with Caroline Finn’s Bloom, a creepily beguiling cabaret of oddities
Caroline Finn’s New Adventures winner, Bloom, is the standout in Phoenix’s fine mixed programme
November 2014
Phoenix Dance Theatre mixed programme review – jolts of intrigue in modest bill
A juicy piece by Israeli-Dutch duo Ivgi and Greben, and Darshan Singh Bhuller’s tender work about his father, are highlights in programme that plays it safe, writes David Jays
March 2014
Phoenix Dance Mixed Programme review – 'Movement this eloquent doesn't need gimmicks'
Mapping is an eloquent tale of displacement, but Document's structural tension is undermined by anguished grimacing, finds Judith Mackrell
