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Dance
Dance at its most varied this month
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Two diametrically opposed works – Chiara Bersani’s Seeking Unicorns and Oona Doherty’s Navy Blue – provide much food for thought in this year’s edition of Dance Umbrella
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The famous fictional Alice reaches adolescence and starts a new quest in Jasmin Vardimon's new work, ALiCE, coming to Sadler's Wells.
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Aakash Odedra Company’s Samsara showing at Sadler’s Wells is an epic of cultural cross-fertilisation performed by two mesmerising dancers
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Dickson Mbi dances his own Enowate as a quasi-mystical hymn to his African roots and London upbringing
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Ballo Arthur Pita's Ten Sorry Tales at the Lilian Baylis Studio is the perfect half-term entertainment for children and adults alike
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With Anti-Body, choreographer Alexander Whitley continues his exploration of the marriage between the human body and its technological representation
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A promising opening of the 2022-23 season
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Botis Seva's remarkable commentary on the experience of black youth, BLKDOG, returns to Sadler's Wells in the autumn
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With Mixtape, ZooNation, The Kate Prince Company comes to Sadler's Wells to celebrate 20 years of vibrant, exciting hip-hop
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Giselle, Bach… and The Trocks return
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Fabula Collective brings seven new short works to Sadler's Wells in MOMENTUM - lost & found, a one-off programme designed to showcase contemporary creativity
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A thrilling blend of hip-hop and theatre, Spoken Movement's Family Honour dissects a girl's rebellion against the pressures to conform
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National Youth Dance Company returns to Sadler's Wells with Quartier Paradis, a work by its current artistic director Alesandra Seutin
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The Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker brings her uncompromising approach to bear on Bach's The Goldberg Variations
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Sadler’s Wells Flamenco Festival 2022 ends on a high with An Ode to Time, Compañía María Pagés’s powerful and multifaceted evocation of Spain’s life and art
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Sadler’s Wells' Flamenco Festival returned to its theme of contemporary exploration with the fairly impenetrable The Jump by Compañía Jesús Carmona
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This was the weekend when the true spirit of flamenco descended upon Sadler’s Wells with a transporting gala by Compañía María del Mar Moreno and guests
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Sadler’s Wells’ Flamenco Festival continued with Compañía Ana Morales's Without Permission: Songs for Silence, a show intriguing on paper but deeply disappointing in practice
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Sadler’s Wells’ Flamenco Festival got under way with ¡VIVA!, a rousing show from Manuel Liñán Company, which brought us flamenco with a difference
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A work of sharp intelligence and devastating emotional power, choreographer Helen Pickett’s The Crucible for Scottish Ballet has had its London premiere at Sadler’s Wells
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African dancers bring something new and exhilarating to Pina Bausch’s seminal reading of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, currently at Sadler’s Wells
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In Requiem: Fire in the Air of the Earth A.I.M by Kyle Abraham offers a rousing, often deeply moving mediation on death and rebirth shaped by Black culture
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London hosts dance from four continents
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The Andalucian sun will shine over north London for two weeks this summer, because Sadler's Wells' famous Flamenco Festival is back
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Rambert’s Eye Candy triple bill is a fascinating combination of styles that shows the company at its exhilarating best
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Northern Ballet serves up a luscious spectacle at Sadler's Wells with Casanova, its plunge into intricate 18th-century politics centred on one of its most colourful characters
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A double bill of new work, Warrior Queens and Shades of Blue brought thrilling energy and some stunning visual imagery to Sadler’s Wells, but lacked narrative coherence
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May offers some unmissable dance shows
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The Belgian choreographer Jan Martens makes his Sadler's Wells debut with his challenging 2020 work any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones
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Sadler’s Wells kicked off its annual hip-hop festival, Breakin’ Convention with the UK premiere of Compagnie Niya’s Gueules Noires, a danced tribute to the miners of northern France
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A towering figure in the culture of Hungary, Franz Liszt is celebrated in Liszt Mosaics, Hungarian State Folk Ensemble's show coming to Sadler's Wells in June