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Sadler's Wells

July 2024

  • Carmen by Carlos Acosta and Acosta Danza at Sadler’s Wells.

    Acosta Danza: Carlos Acosta’s Carmen review – never quite reaches boiling point

    His dancers are superb, but abrupt tonal changes get in the way of the story’s emotional punch in Acosta’s expanded new production
  • Carlos Acosta (The Bull), centre, in Carmen.

    Carlos Acosta’s Carmen review – a giddy Cuban tragedy

    Bursting with upfront energy, Acosta Danza’s contemporary mashup is lively but light on emotive moments
  • Alastair Whatley in The Importance of Being Oscar.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Shakespeare v the Tories, Mel C’s dance show and more

    This month’s picks include a Starlight Express intro for kids, a rollicking wedding play at the National and an explosive hour of dance

June 2024

  • Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey

    The Who’s Quadrophenia to be revived as a ballet

  • Eva Yerbabuena whips a long-fringed shawl around herself in every direction

    Eva Yerbabuena: Yerbagüena review – mercurial flamenco that’s full of surprises

May 2024

  • ‘I show the human desires we all have’ … Molina in Al Fondo Riela.

    ‘I have to be honest – even if it’s nasty’: the jaw-dropping fetish flamenco of Rocío Molina

    She has danced pregnant, in bondage gear, and drenched in what looks like menstrual blood – all to unleash the monsters lurking within her and all of us. We meet the unstoppable performer rocking the flamenco world
  • A group of dancers dressed in white with their faces painted white

    Compagnie Maguy Marin: May B review – an absurdly beautiful dance translation of Samuel Beckett

    The French choreographer’s 1981 interpretation of the playwright’s world rewards patience with its magic and precision
  • Margaret Curphey as Micaële in Carmen, her first role with Sadler’s Wells Opera, with Donald Smith as Don José

    Margaret Curphey obituary

    Soprano at the heart of productions of the Ring cycle and other Wagner operas conducted by Reginald Goodall

April 2024

  • Christos Papadopoulos’s Larsen C.

    Shortlist unveiled for dance’s answer to the Turner prize

    Choreographers from the US, Brazil, Greece and Portugal in the running for the £40,000 inaugural Rose international dance prize
  • ‘My whole stance was world domination’ … Breakin’ Convention.

    How we made
    ‘We have to have graffiti!’ How we made the Breakin’ Convention hip-hop dance festival

    ‘At the first one, we had DJs in the foyer and people were jumping in to battle with the dancers. We took out seats to make more standing room and the noise was crazy’

    • Elixir festival review – older dancers pushing against the void

    • Elixir festival review – the dance of life through older eyes

    • Play time
      The Velveteen Rabbit review – magically told tale of a much-loved toy who comes to life

March 2024

  • Minju Kang (Carmen) and Rentaro Nakaaki (Don Jose) in Carmen by English National Ballet

    Carmen; California Connections review – sharp moves

  • Minju Kang as Carmen and Rentaro Nakaaki as Don José.

    Carmen review – stripped-back ballet focuses on the femicide

  • A tableau of dancers all dressed as medieval knights on a stage within a stage

    Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young/Kidd Pivot: Assembly Hall review – making the mundane astonishing

  • Assembly Hall

    Assembly Hall review – medieval reenactors joust in a whirl of fantasy and mundanity

  • The week in dance: Company Wayne McGregor: Autobiography (v95 and v96); New York City Ballet – review

  • New York City Ballet review – iconic company returns to show the shape of modern ballet

  • Birmingham Royal Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty; Dimitris Papaioannou: Ink – review

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