London live dance: Christmas 2020
A couple of Nutcrackers join other seasonal productions in the cornucopia of dance on show in London this Christmas
The Royal Ballet, The Nutcracker 2020
The Royal Ballet brings back Sir Peter Wright's unmissable production of the Christmas ballet par excellence, The Nutcracker, with some Covid-necessitated modifications, and a brand new battle scene between the Nutcracker and the Mouse King.
Read more ...English National Ballet, Nutcracker Delights
Different from the Royal Ballet's but just as magical, English National Ballet's Nutcracker has been adapted to our restricted times and retitled as Nutcracker Delights. The show will include some of the work's best loved divertissements, including the dreamy Dance of the Snowflakes
Read more ...The Little Match Girl, Ballo Arthur Pita
Ballo Arthur Pita's enchanting family show, The Little Match Girl, comes to Sadler's Wells' main stage, after running for seven years in the Lilian Baylis studio. By turns heart-breaking and redemptive, Pita's adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen's tale has become a Christmas must.
Read more ...Sadler's Wells Breakin' Convention – Social DisDancing
Why not start the festive season in energetic mood, with Sadler's Wells festival of all things hip hop? Breakin' Convention brings some of the big names of street dance, including Boy Blue, to the stage in a short, but exuberant weekend.
Read more ...On Point: Royal Academy of Dance at 100, V&A
For a quiet moment between frenzied bouts of Christmas shopping, why not pay a visit to the V & A's On Point exhibition? It documents 100 years of the Royal Academy of Dance, and includes fascinating and rarely seen documents, pictures, film clips, costumes... everything that goes together to created the magic of dance
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