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Sylvie Guillem

October 2023

  • Moon Water by Cloud Gate Dance theatre of Taiwan

    Dancing dreams: 25 stunning scenes at Sadler’s Wells – in pictures

    This month, Sadler’s Wells celebrates the quarter centenary of its current building in Islington, north London, which was remodelled in 1998. Revisit 25 shows from those years

October 2020

  • Stephen Wicks, Darcey Bussell and Adam Cooper in Manon, 1992

    Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
    Darcey Bussell explodes! The Royal Ballet in black and white – in pictures

    From Darcey Bussell impersonating an exploding star in Apollo to Jonathan Cope posing like Elvis in Frankenstein, we celebrate the elegant, magical beauty of the Royal Ballet in the 1980s and 90s

February 2020

  • Millepied and Portman

    Natalie Portman's husband denies signing letter backing fired ballet director

    Choreographers Benjamin Millepied and William Forsyth deny signing letter demanding director’s return after dismissal for pregnancy discrimination

January 2018

  • Gareth Pugh's designs for Carbon Life by Wayne McGregor.

    The kings and queens of couture – and their most dazzling dance creations

    From Chanel’s Riviera bathers to Alexander McQueen’s cross-dressing spywear, we explore the spellbinding results when giants of fashion cross into dance

October 2016

  • Chauviré performing with Rudolf Nureyev in the early 1960s.

    Yvette Chauviré obituary

    Star ballerina with a brilliant classical technique renowned for her performances of Giselle

September 2016

  • Jonathan Goddard, Darcey Bussell and Adam Garcia

    Blinded by Sylvie Guillem's knickers: dancers and Strictly stars' missteps

    Darcey Bussell was very friendly with the floor in rehearsals. Kevin Clifton’s Thriller-style tango tanked on live TV. And Thomas Whitehead got trapped in his ballerina’s underwear. Seven dance-floor disasters are remembered

December 2015

  • Sylvie Guillem at Sadler’s Wells in 2011

    Ballerina Sylvie Guillem bows out with Boléro in Japan

    French dancer brings curtain down on glittering career that included performing with Nureyev and becoming the youngest ever étoile
  • Sylvie Guillem

    Sylvie Guillem: 'I don't want to think about my last show – I just want to live it'

    She was Rudolf Nureyev’s greatest protege and he nurtured her to stardom. Now, after four decades, Guillem is to retire. She talks about her fights, faults and fears
  • Alessandra Ferri and Federico Bonelli in Part 1: I Now, I Then from Woolf Works by the Royal Ballet.

    Best culture 2015
    Judith Mackrell's top 10 dance of 2015

    Wayne McGregor distilled the essence of Virginia Woolf while others tackled Milton and Samuel Beckett, and the beauty of maturity found champions in Alessandra Ferri and Sylvie Guillem

October 2015

  • Alessandra Ferri in Woolf Works at the Royal Opera House

    Dance blog
    National Dance Awards 2015 nominations: ice dance, flamenco and independent companies celebrated

    This year’s award nominations are impressively diverse, with excellent independents vying with the titans of British dance, and fiftysomething dancers getting recognition

August 2015

  • Australian comedian and actress Julia Morris

    The week in Aussie arts
    Top five things to see this week: La Traviata, Holy Holy and Julia Morris

  • Sylvie Guillem in Mats Ek’s “Bye” at Sadler’s Wells in London.

    Sylvie Guillem in Sydney: To be free on stage, you need to have been disciplined

July 2015

  • Alessandra Ferri and Federico Bonelli in Part 3: Tuesday from Woolf Works at the Royal Opera House, choreographed by Wayne McGregor.

    Keep dancing: the ballet stars leaping through the age barrier

    Their bodies hurt and the roles are drying up … So how do ballerinas maintain their careers after hitting 40? Wendy Whelan (48) and Alessandra Ferri (52) reveal all

June 2015

  • Edward Watson dancing with Wendy Whelan

    The ballet dancers growing older gracefully

    Two of the greatest dancers of their generation, Wendy Whelan and Edward Watson have between them 80 years of ballet experience. Ruaridh Nicoll hears how age is allowing them to be free

May 2015

  • Sylvie Guillem in Bye

    Sylvie Guillem: Life in Progress review – a muted conclusion to a brilliant career

  • Sylvie Guillem Life in Progres

    Sylvie Guillem: Life in Progress review – a final farewell from a startling talent

  • Charlotte Higgins

    Notebook
    Unforgettable Ferri: age is no bar to artistry in the dance of life

    Charlotte Higgins
  • Les Rendezvous performed by Birmingham Royal Ballet

    This week's new dance
    This week’s new dance

April 2015

  • Phoebe Fox, Mark Strong and Nicola Walker in A View from the Bridge, directed by Ivo van Hove.

    Olivier awards 2015: Angela Lansbury reigns while View from the Bridge wins three

    Ivo Van Hove’s production of Arthur Miller play carries off prizes for best actor, best revival and best director

March 2015

  • In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated

    Elevated visions: how William Forsythe changed the face of dance

    Forsythe’s 1987 ballet In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated was commissioned by Rudolf Nureyev and starred the young Sylvie Guillem – and it electrified the ballet world. So what made this work so revolutionary? A new revival by the English National Ballet looks set to provide the answer. By Sarah Crompton
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