Merce Cunningham
Gandini Juggling: Life review – a joyful love letter to Merce Cunningham
This dazzling show recreates the choreographer’s work through the pure geometry of balls, hoops and clubs
Sarah Crompton
15, Jan, 2022 @1:00 PM
Gandini Juggling: Life review – Merce Cunningham tribute is a little gem
Combining juggling and contemporary dance, this is a complex and accomplished homage to the late choreographer
Lyndsey Winship
13, Jan, 2022 @11:06 AM
Lucinda Childs: ‘In the US, my work wasn’t something people could deal with’
From being taught by Merce Cunningham to collaborating with Philip Glass, the choreographer who helped shape the New York dance scene – now ‘81 on paper’ – looks back
Lyndsey Winship
30, Jun, 2021 @7:00 PM
Step in time: how to save the legacy of dance from being lost in history
While Richard Alston’s company hang up their dance shoes, archivists and choreographers are grasping at ways to immortalise an inherently slippery art form
Lyndsey Winship
12, Mar, 2020 @10:12 AM
Cunningham review – powerful 3D documentary about a dance pioneer
This highbrow study is fascinating less for its fancy 3D footsteps than for its insight into choreographer Merce Cunningham’s life and work
Cath Clarke
11, Mar, 2020 @3:00 PM
Now in 3D! Merce Cunningham's mind-blowing dance
A superb documentary immerses you in the choreographer’s creations and shows off his own wild and weightless performances
Lyndsey Winship
09, Mar, 2020 @11:00 AM
Top 10 dance shows of 2019
A snogtastic Romeo and Juliet from Matthew Bourne and an international dance-a-thon celebrating Merce Cunningham join a mixed troupe of winners
Lyndsey Winship and Sanjoy Roy
15, Dec, 2019 @5:00 PM
The Sleeping Beauty; Rambert Event review – total ballerina focus and stale fruitcake
A spectacular Princess Aurora graces a Royal Ballet favourite in dire need of an update
Bidisha
17, Nov, 2019 @5:30 AM
The Future Bursts In; Birmingham Royal Ballet: Mixed Programme – review
Hip-hop, waltzes and t’ai chi share the stage in a restless, male-led tribute to Merce Cunningham
Bidisha
03, Nov, 2019 @5:30 AM
Cross Currents/ Monotones II/ Everyone Keeps Me; Danse Élargie – review
Pam Tanowitz’s dazzling new work for the Royal Ballet sat perfectly alongside Ashton and Cunningham
Sarah Crompton
20, Oct, 2019 @11:00 AM
Royal Ballet review – sublime surprises from Cunningham, Tanowitz and Ashton
Pam Tanowitz’s gloriously rich Everyone Keeps Me is performed alongside bracing and serene revivals from Merce Cunningham and Frederick Ashton
Anna Winter
11, Oct, 2019 @10:09 AM
The best dance of the 21st century
Ferocious flamenco, bittersweet ballet and a harrowing masterpiece are among the greatest dance creations of our age
18, Sep, 2019 @7:00 AM
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