Dance & ballet news

• Bourne's Red Shoes and Khan's Giselle triumph at National Dance awards

  19-02-2018 15:30
  Zenaida Yanowsky and Liam Riddick take top dancer prizes, while Lez Brotherston wins outstanding contribution awardWe know that certain stories and certain archetypes have a strong hold on the dance imagination. We also know that when choreographers work with narrative it’s often easiest for them to pin the beautifully ambiguous language of the body on to the bones of familiar characters and plots. Even so, it’s startling to see how many of the winners at this year’s National D
  
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• Juliet and Romeo review – star-crossed lovers try couples therapy

  19-02-2018 08:00
  Battersea Arts Centre, London
  In Ben Duke and Lost Dog’s smart, wryly subversive and sexy dance-theatre piece, Juliet and Romeo didn’t die in that tomb. Worse … they grew old togetherShakespeare’s lovers sit side by side in matching armchairs, a pot plant in the space between. They’re approaching middle age and their marriage has hit a rough patch; they no longer talk, and Juliet starts to reveal that Romeo “is having difficulty …”, before he win
  
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