Best November 2022 dance
Dance at its most varied this month
World Ballet Day 2022
The month opens with World Ballet Day, which takes balletomanes on six continents behind the scenes at their favourite dance companies.
Read more ...The Royal Ballet, Mayerling review ★★★★★
On this, the thirtieth anniversary of choreographer Kenneth MacMillan's untimely death, his masterpiece Mayerling continues in repertoire at the Royal Ballet until the end of the month with a variety of interesting casts.
Read more ...The Royal Ballet, Light of Passage review ★★★★★
There's one final chance to catch up with Canadian choreographer du jour, Crystal Pite's latest work for The Royal Ballet. Light of Passage extends the scope her award-winning piece on the refugee crisis, Flight Pattern.
Read more ...The Royal Ballet: A Diamond Celebration, Royal Opera House
Marking yet another anniversary, this time 60 years of the ROH Friends membership scheme, The Royal Ballet presents a very short run of a mixed bill, that combines classical ballet with cutting edge contemporary dance
Read more ...Review: Rambert, Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby ★★★★★
London fans of Peaky Blinders have one last chance to catch up with Rambert's pulsating dance interpretation of the TV hit show at the Troubadour Wembley Park before it moves on to an extensive international tour.
Read more ...Northern Ballet, Made in Leeds, ROH Linbury Theatre
Leeds-based Northern Ballet has its first London outing under its new director, former Royal Ballet principal Federico Bonelli. The company comes to the ROH Linbury theatre with three short contemporary pieces, under the umbrella title Made in Leeds.
Ivan Putrov presents Men in Motion, London Coliseum
Dancer and impresario Ivan Putrov marks the tenth anniversary of his homage to the male dancer over the years, Men in Motion, with a new iteration of this one-off gala. The starry cast includes Vadim Muntagirov and Matthew Ball, Matteo Micini from Stuttgart Ballet and Dmitry Zagrebin from Royal Swedish Ballet.
Read more ...Birmingham Royal Ballet, Into the Music, Sadler's Wells
Cuban superstar Carlos Acosta brings his Birmingham Royal Ballet to London with Into The Music, a triple bill of contemporary work, that includes pieces by international dance luminaries Jiří Kylián and Uwe Scholz, as well as up-and-coming British choreographer Morgann Runacre-Temple.
Read more ...English National Ballet: Ek, Forsythe, Quagebeur, Sadler's Wells
English National Ballet's autumn triple bill brings together two tried and tested crowd pleasers alongside a brand new reading of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring by the Swedish veteran choreographer Mts Ek.
Read more ...Bruno Beltrão, Grupo de Rua, New Creation, Sadler's Wells
Sadler's Wells presents Brazilian dancemaker Bruno Beltrão and his company Grupo de Rua with their latest work New Creation. Combining contemporary dance with the unequalled vitality of Brazil's street dance, this is a particularly topical piece in the context of the recent fraught presidential elections in their country.
Read more ...Israel Galván, La Consagración de la Primavera, Sadler's Wells
The maverick Spanish flamenco dancer Israel Galván turns his iconoclastic attention to Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, with results we can't really predict…
Matthew Bourne, Sleeping Beauty, Sadler's Wells
November ends looking ahead to the festive season, with the first night of Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty, which will be the Sadler's Wells Christmas offering this year and provides an escape from more sugary seasonal fare.
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