Rambert: Analogue review – close encounters on the dancefloor
Jill Johnson’s intricate new piece puts the audience in the midst of an exploration of interaction and connection
March 2024
The best theatre to stream this month
The best theatre to stream this month: Peaky Blinders, Prima Facie and more
Our roundup of what to watch at home includes Rambert’s prequel to the hit TV series, Jodie Comer reprising the legal drama and Roald Dahl’s The Magic Finger
December 2023
2024 culture preview
The best theatre, dance and comedy tickets to book in 2024
The new year’s hottest shows include stage versions of Minority Report, Spirited Away and La Strada, performances by Keeley Hawes and Ian McKellen – plus laughs from Julia Masli, Rhod Gilbert and Ania Magliano
November 2023
Rambert: Death Trap review – a double bill of despair from Ben Duke
BalletBoyz: England on Fire; Rambert: Death Trap review – to Albion and the underworld
September 2023
Vogue World to donate £2m to London-based arts organisations
National Theatre and Royal Ballet among 21 groups to receive grants from new fund
December 2022
2022 in Culture
The best dance of 2022
Exhilarating highlights this year ranged from tech-savvy ballet and a juggling celebration of Merce Cunningham to a daring flamenco Rite of Spring
October 2022
‘Don’t worry, just watch’: how do you tell a story through dance?
Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby review – firing blanks
September 2022
Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby review – Rambert’s dancers descend into opium-fuelled despair
Benoit Swan Pouffer’s swaggering dancers fly, fling and slide across the stage in this energetic, menacing prequel-style show
May 2022
Rambert review – Ben Duke’s new work is both funny and profound
The mysterious, melancholy Cerberus is the centrepiece of a triple bill worthy of the company’s superb dancers
Rambert review – whirlwinds of wow
The company’s touring triple bill is a showcase of individual brilliance that testifies to the sure creative hand of director Benoit Swan Pouffer
Dance legend Alonzo King: ‘People think of love as a sentiment but it’s a force’
The revered American choreographer looks back at his political family life and the inspiration of his mother’s movement ahead of a rare UK production with Rambert
April 2022
From the Observer archive
A jazz player, a rock climber and Doris Lessing: life for women over 50, 1975
A war opportunity, the first female ascent in the Alps, and an ex-Communist
March 2022
Rambert: Set and Reset; Katerina Andreou: BSTRD; Christian Rizzo: une maison – review
Dance Reflections festival showcases a fresh take on Trisha Brown’s seminal work; while two of its contemporary offerings are frustratingly oblique
January 2022
Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby stage show to open in Birmingham
Rambert dance company and writer Steven Knight team up for an ‘inspiring and uplifting’ touring production
September 2021
Lockdown culture
Note to Self review – transfixing journey through a failing memory
The new livestreamed production from Rambert2 is a sensual but unnerving, Twin Peaks-y show with a compelling central performance, about a woman with dementia
July 2021
The week in dance: Carlos Acosta: On Before; Rambert Summer Livestream – review
There’s so much love in the room for Acosta that a variable programme becomes greater than itself
June 2021
Rambert: Draw from Within review – dancing this intense could spark a blaze
First seen online, Wim Vandekeybus’s work can’t quite contain its own ideas, but Rambert’s dancers are a marvel to watch live
