London dance 2022 highlights
Ballet, contemporary and dance-theatre offer a cornucopia of exciting work in 2022
Raymonda, English National Ballet, Coliseum
The year starts with ENB director Tamara Rojo's Raymonda, her first ballet as a choreographer, which transposes the eponymous Russian classic from the early Middle Ages to the Crimea war. It's inspired by Florence Nightingale.
Read more ...LIMF – Gandini Juggling, Life, Lilian Baylis Studio
Genre-bending troupe Gandini Juggling kicks off the London International Mime Festival with its new work Life, an homage to the American giant of contemporary dance, Merce Cunningham.
Read more ...Mark Bruce Company, Phantoms triple bill, Wilton's Music Hall
Mark Bruce's work is never less than thrilling, and so much is expected from his new triple bill Phantoms, which will again take the Mark Bruce Company to the perfect setting of Wilton's Music Hall.
Read more ...Acosta Danza, 100% Cuban, Sadler's Wells
Acosta Danza, the dynamic young company set up by the Cuban ballet superstar Carlos Acosta, returns to London with a programme of works old and new that showcases the sheer brilliance of these dancers.
Read more ...BalletBoyz Deluxe 2022, Sadler's Wells
Fears that Covid-19 and its prolonged lockdowns had killed BalletBoyz were dispelled with the announcement that this exciting all-male company was returning from the dead with new personnel and a reprise of its exciting programme Deluxe.
Read more ...The Royal Ballet, Swan Lake 2022, ROH
The Royal Ballet's sumptuous production of possibly the world's best-loved ballet, Swan Lake, returns to Covent Garden for an extended run with a variety of exciting casts.
Read more ...The Royal Ballet, Like Water for Chocolate, ROH
Christopher Wheeldon's much-anticipated new full-length ballet, Like Water for Chocolate, is an adaptation of an involving story of thwarted love and obsessive cooking in 1900s Mexico.
Read more ...Matthew Bourne's The Car Man, Royal Albert Hall
Postponed from last year, Matthew Bourne's raunchy The Car Man is scheduled finally to come to the Royal Albert Hall in the summer, in a brand-new production that adapts this radical remake of Carmen to the vast space of the West London house.
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