Rambert
The best dance of 2022
Exhilarating highlights this year ranged from tech-savvy ballet and a juggling celebration of Merce Cunningham to a daring flamenco Rite of Spring
Lyndsey Winship and Sanjoy Roy
16, Dec, 2022 @11:00 AM
‘Don’t worry, just watch’: how do you tell a story through dance?
Even the best-known ballets can baffle newcomers so what can choreographers do to avoid audiences getting lost? From Matthew Bourne’s fairytales to staging Margaret Atwood and Peaky Blinders, we find out
Lyndsey Winship
06, Oct, 2022 @12:00 PM
Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby review – firing blanks
Rambert’s dancers bring style, but can’t provide substance, to this inert adaptation of the hit TV crime series
Sarah Crompton
02, Oct, 2022 @10:00 AM
Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby review – Rambert’s dancers descend into opium-fuelled despair
Benoit Swan Pouffer’s swaggering dancers fly, fling and slide across the stage in this energetic, menacing prequel-style show
Lyndsey Winship
29, Sep, 2022 @2:30 PM
Rambert review – Ben Duke’s new work is both funny and profound
The mysterious, melancholy Cerberus is the centrepiece of a triple bill worthy of the company’s superb dancers
Sarah Crompton
22, May, 2022 @8:00 AM
Rambert review – whirlwinds of wow
The company’s touring triple bill is a showcase of individual brilliance that testifies to the sure creative hand of director Benoit Swan Pouffer
Lyndsey Winship
19, May, 2022 @10:23 AM
Dance legend Alonzo King: ‘People think of love as a sentiment but it’s a force’
The revered American choreographer looks back at his political family life and the inspiration of his mother’s movement ahead of a rare UK production with Rambert
Lyndsey Winship
16, May, 2022 @7:00 PM
A jazz player, a rock climber and Doris Lessing: life for women over 50, 1975
A war opportunity, the first female ascent in the Alps, and an ex-Communist
Chris Hall
24, Apr, 2022 @5:00 AM
Rambert: Set and Reset; Katerina Andreou: BSTRD; Christian Rizzo: une maison – review
Dance Reflections festival showcases a fresh take on Trisha Brown’s seminal work; while two of its contemporary offerings are frustratingly oblique
Sarah Crompton
20, Mar, 2022 @9:00 AM
Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby stage show to open in Birmingham
Rambert dance company and writer Steven Knight team up for an ‘inspiring and uplifting’ touring production
Chris Wiegand
17, Jan, 2022 @10:37 AM
Note to Self review – transfixing journey through a failing memory
The new livestreamed production from Rambert2 is a sensual but unnerving, Twin Peaks-y show with a compelling central performance, about a woman with dementia
Lyndsey Winship
17, Sep, 2021 @6:00 PM
The week in dance: Carlos Acosta: On Before; Rambert Summer Livestream – review
There’s so much love in the room for Acosta that a variable programme becomes greater than itself
Sarah Crompton
25, Jul, 2021 @8:00 AM
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