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Boy Blue: Cycles review – a constantly shifting hip-hop high
The company’s exploration of the act of dancing ebbs and flows loose-limbed precision – and some astonishing pyrotechnics

Sarah Crompton

04, May, 2024 @8:00 AM

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‘Out of tune and out of key’: Covent Garden’s buskers fight back against bid to silence them
Performers say Westminster council move to enforce licences and restrict acts’ volume, staging and props threatens a centuries-old London tradition

Andrew Anthony

26, Nov, 2023 @3:00 PM

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Breakin’ Convention review – vibrant hip-hop party is a triumph
The 20th edition of Jonzi D’s hip-hop theatre festival showcases new styles and old-school vibes with bags of personality

Lyndsey Winship

01, May, 2023 @8:22 AM

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Manchester international festival: Sea Change; Breathless Puppets – review
Boris Charmatz gets Manchester’s communal toes tapping, while Akram Khan partners with hand-drawn animation in a coming-of-age tale

Bidisha

11, Jul, 2021 @8:00 AM

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Breakin’ Convention 2021 review – Glasto act ignite hip-hop party vibes
The WAR collective, who danced with Stormzy at Glastonbury, head up an inclusive bill of dazzling skill at this annual festival

Lyndsey Winship

04, Jul, 2021 @3:25 PM

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Breakdancer B-boy Fly in a Papua New Guinea stilt village – Josh Cole’s best photograph
‘Kids gathered to watch, drawn by the cameras, but got mesmerised by the dance’

Interview by Henry Yates

23, Jun, 2021 @2:00 PM

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‘Craziest thing I’ve ever done’: how In the Heights pulled off its most spectacular dance numbers
How do you get 90 hoofers to frug in a pool? Christopher Scott, the choreographer behind Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical extravaganza, reveals all

Lyndsey Winship

14, Jun, 2021 @5:30 AM

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From Hamlet to Hullabaloo: what to see as theatres and comedy clubs reopen
As stage shows return, we pick the best post-lockdown offerings – featuring Egyptian gods, rebelling vicars, dancing youths ... and Ian McKellen playing the Dane at 82

Arifa Akbar (theatre), Brian Logan (comedy), Lyndsey Winship (dance)

16, May, 2021 @2:00 PM

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How the Electric Slide became the Black Lives Matter protest dance
This is a moment of movement: as people gather to push for change, collective dancing has become activism in motion

Sanjoy Roy

11, Jun, 2020 @12:29 PM

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'Visual poetry': taking physical languages beyond the Deaf community
Here/Not Here, a new film by Bim Ajadi, is aiming to bring the visual vernacular art form in to the mainstream

Lyndsey Winship

10, May, 2020 @12:14 PM

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Plié, jeté … mind the fridge! My kitchen ballet class with Tamara Rojo
Dancers are sharing their skills online as venues are shut due to the coronavirus. Our critic stepped up to test one out

Lyndsey Winship

24, Mar, 2020 @6:00 AM

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Hip-hop to haute couture: dance's love affair with fashion
From the ballet performances like 17th century catwalk shows to Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw in a tutu, two exhibitions explore a stylish symbiotic relationship

Sarah Crompton

12, Nov, 2019 @10:54 AM

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