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The Royal Opera House stage pulsated with fresh ideas and splendid dancing in the four New Works of its Festival of New Choreography

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On a stage carpeted with 8,000 silk carnations, the dancers of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch re-enact her thrilling 1982 classic Nelken at Sadler's Wells

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Immersive 

The Royal Opera House kicked off its Festival of New Choreography with Canadian Robert Binet’s Dark with Excessive Bright, an immersive, yet strangely unaffecting work

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Singapore’s T.H.E Dance Company brought beautiful dancers, impenetrable dance and the worst ever version of Ravel’s Bolero to the Coronet Theatre

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Immersive 

The Royal Opera House hosts a Festival of New Choreography showcasing new and diverse dance-makers from the UK and beyond

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The prolific American choreographer Jessica Lang talks to Culture Whisper about her first commission for The Royal Ballet, Twinkle, a work that’s star-studded in more ways than one

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Alina Cojocaru and Matthew Ball lead a small cast in choreographer Kim Brandstrup’s entrancing double bill Metamorphoses now at the Theatre Royal, Bath

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Physical theatre company Ockham’s Razor brings Tess, a feminist version of Thomas Hardy’s novel Tess of the D’Urbervilles to the Peacock Theatre, as part of the inaugural MimeLondon festival

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A child-friendly version of Swan Lake returns to the stage this spring, as part of English National Ballet and English National Ballet School's My First Ballet project

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The internationally renowned ballerina Alina Cojocaru commissioned and stars in the new ballet La Strada after Fellini’s landmark film, now on stage at Sadler’s Wells

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Sadler's Wells presents a double dose of Wayne McGregor over a week when it hosts an updated version of his Autobiography followed by UniVerse: A Dark Crystal Odyssey

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International ballet stars come together with dancers with disabilities in Empower in Motion, a gala to raise funds for work with children and youngsters with disabilities hosted by Sadler's Wells

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One of the most powerful works in The Royal Ballet repertoire, MacMillan's Manon, returns to Covent Garden on its 50th anniversary for a three-week run

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Festival 

Southbank's famous Imagine Children's Festival returns this winter half-term with a huge range of programmes for children and their grown-ups

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New Movement Collective marks the centenary of Stravinsky and Nijinska’s ground-breaking work Les Noces with the collaborative multidisciplinary Les Noces – A Departure at Woolwich Works

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English National Ballet’s Giselle brings the Romantic story of love betrayed and forgiveness to the London Coliseum

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The latest work from choreographer Russell Maliphant, Vortex, which alludes to his fascination with the American abstract painter Jackson Pollock, comes to BBC Four

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Northern Ballet brings its charming, hugely entertaining ballet for children Tortoise & The Hare to the Linbury Theatre

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Best of 

A bumper year for dance in London

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A fertile year for dance in London

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Scottish Dance Theatre’s Pirates! – a zany, swashbuckling dance theatre adventure for the whole family – is this year’s Christmas offering at The Place

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English National Ballet dancers bring joy and glorious dancing to the company’s so-so Nutcracker now at the Coliseum

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Edward Scissorhands, Matthew Bourne’s stage adaptation of Tim Burton’s emblematic movie, is charming audiences at Sadler’s Wells this Christmas season

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The Royal Ballet’s near-perfect production of The Nutcracker brings magic to the Christmas season at the Royal Opera house

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Rambert's hit show, Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby, which adapted the popular TV series to dance, comes to the BBC with a special broadcast on New Year's Day

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December means Nutcracker and more

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Lunar Halo, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan’s meditation on the digital world and its impact on humans, is an accomplished visual spectacle now on at Sadler’s Wells

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Exclusive 

In their first interview since joining English National Ballet, lead principal Sangeun Lee and first soloist Gareth Haw talk to Culture Whisper about this new chapter in their special partnership

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One of Brazil's foremost contemporary troupes, São Paulo Dance Company, makes its UK debut at Sadler's Wells early in 2024

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Rambert’s Death Trap, a double bill of dance-theatre works by the maverick Ben Duke, now at Sadler’s Wells, offers an overload of theatre and not enough dance

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The Mongol Khan brings a slice of Mongolian history and legend to the London Coliseum in a colourful, thoroughly theatrical spectacle

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Wayne McGregor’s The Dante Project, his sprawling, ambitious take on Dante’s The Divine Comedy, has its first revival by The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House