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Dance

  • Saturday, 5 July, 2025
    Japanese fandom’s next frontier? Ballet

    The country’s top dancers have often sought careers abroad but now a young company with big ambitions is aiming to build on talent at home

    A ballerina in white tutu pirouetting
  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
    Review
    A Single Man — ballet adaptation of Isherwood novel is tenderly written and danced

    Jonathan Watkins’s new work at Aviva Studios, Manchester, brings together two of the finest dance actors of their generation

    A man and a woman in period dress perform a high-kicking dance routine
  • Monday, 30 June, 2025
    Review
    Quadrophenia — The Who’s rock opera is reimagined as a Mod ballet

    Pete Townshend’s original music forms the soundtrack to a sharp touring production with costuming by Paul Smith

  • Saturday, 28 June, 2025
    FT Magazine
    How line dancing found an unlikely fan base in New York City

    What’s behind the popularity of a red-state pastime in deep-blue US cities

    Smiling person dancing with a red fan in a lively bar with neon signs, guitars and drums on the wall
  • Sunday, 15 June, 2025
    Special ReportBusiness Education: Financial Training
    Juilliard students learn to balance art and accounts in a precarious world

    Post‑pandemic, the performing arts school is embracing entrepreneurship — and a drive towards full tuition‑free access

    Young musicians practise string instruments in a wood-panelled room with tablets and drinks on a red table
  • Friday, 13 June, 2025
    Review
    Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell brings to life Patrick Hamilton’s seedy, lovelorn characters

    Sadler’s Wells in London also hosts Phoenix Dance Theatre’s James Baldwin adaptation, ‘Inside Giovanni’s Room’

  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    Review
    Thrilling debut performances light up the Royal Ballet’s Onegin

    Vadim Muntagirov, Fumi Kaneko and Natalia Osipova were among the dancers who shone in John Cranko’s ballet

  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
    Interview
    Farruquito: ‘We learnt flamenco almost without realising, like one learns to talk or walk’

    Scion of a flamenco dynasty, Farruquito dazzled audiences as a child — and now contemplates the line of succession

    A man with dark hair and beard and wearing flamenco shoes stands with one foot on a box. There is a guitar on the floor in front of him.
  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    Review
    Flamenco star Sara Baras shows off her magnificent skills

    Performance at London’s Sadler’s Wells impressed most when the dancer let her hair down

  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    HTSI
    Le Train Bleu: a mythic dance masterpiece is reborn

    Picasso and Chanel helped to create it 100 years ago. As our exclusive preview reveals, English National Ballet is giving it new life

    ENB dancers in front of the stage cloth for the Ballets Russes’ production of Le Train Bleu, which was designed by Pablo Picasso, 1924, currently on display at V&A East Storehouse
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    Review
    Royal Ballet celebrates the wide-ranging talents of Christopher Wheeldon

    Programme of the choreographer’s work, Ballet to Broadway, has five-star highs — and some odd choices

  • Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
    Review
    Sasha Waltz offers a dance response to a minimalist masterpiece

    Music outmatches movement in an improvisatory performance at the Southbank Centre

  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    Review
    Five stars for English National Ballet’s Forsythe Programme — review

    Triple bill of the choreographer’s work at London’s Sadler’s Wells was packed with wit and virtuosity

    Three dancers stand in a close group, extending their arms
  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
    Review
    Thrilling debuts light up George Balanchine masterpieces

    Three of the choreographer’s signature pieces were given new life by London’s Royal Ballet

    Several bald men surround a dark-haired man in a tattered Roman outfit, stretching their hands towards him
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Review
    Pam Tanowitz brings her gleeful new dance work to London’s Royal Opera House

    ‘Neither Drums Nor Trumpets’ was one of three premieres that formed part of the Van Cleef & Arpels Dance Reflections season

    A man in a pink and orange one-piece tilts forward on one leg
  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Review
    Lyon Opera Ballet brings two Merce Cunningham masterpieces to life

    ‘Beach Birds’ and ‘Biped’ get impressive, meticulous stagings at London’s Dance Reflections festival

  • Tuesday, 11 March, 2025
    Interview
    Pam Tanowitz: ‘My work never feels finished — dancers tell me: stop changing things!’

    The New York choreographer discusses the ‘risky’ business of bringing her work to a former flower market at London’s Royal Opera House

    A woman sits with her back to the wall in a room with framed artworks hanging; she is looking off to one side
  • Monday, 10 March, 2025
    Review
    Natalia Osipova’s new solo venture shows her insatiable artistic curiosity

    Three-part programme in London was proof of her stylistic range — and revealed her impressive vocal delivery

    A dancer in a white dress with black detailing embroidered on it, lifts one foot, arms half outstretched
  • Monday, 10 March, 2025
    Review
    Combustible chemistry poses a fire risk as MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet turns 60 — review

    Royal Ballet revival features thrilling pairings of Yasmine Naghdi and Matthew Ball, Marianela Nuñez and William Bracewell

    A male and female ballet dancer stand clutching each other passionately, desperately
  • Monday, 24 February, 2025
    Review
    Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Cinderella is sumptuous and warm

    David Bintley’s staging, performed at Birmingham’s Hippodrome, is gorgeous to look at and packed with humour

    A female dancer leaps joyfully in a  dilapidated room dominated by a giant wardrobe
  • Monday, 24 February, 2025
    ReviewArts
    Dancing with Shadows podcast review — rare portrait of a closed world

    New series explores the troubled New York City Ballet and the notoriously high standards demanded by its co-founder George Balanchine

    A man stands holding the hands of a female dancer as she leans to one side; to the rear is a wall-sized mirror
  • Saturday, 22 February, 2025
    Theatre
    Judi Dench leads the HTSI spring arts issue

    We asked carnival queens, make-up masters, directors, dancers and a Swedish psych-rock band called Goat to examine the person, the performance and the persona

    Judi Dench at home in Surrey
  • Friday, 21 February, 2025
    FT SeriesJudi Dench leads the HTSI spring arts issue
    Samba queen Sabrina Sato: ‘Heaven must be similar to Carnival’

    The Brazilian star loves sunglasses, massages and her tailor-made costumes

    Sabrina Sato wears a Carnival outfit at home in São Paulo
  • Thursday, 20 February, 2025
    Review
    Figures in Extinction explores life, the universe and everything

    The third and final part of Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney’s collaboration is puzzling and poignant

  • Thursday, 20 February, 2025
    HTSI
    Sadler’s Wells East sparks a dance revolution

    Artistic director Alistair Spalding and associate artist Jules Cunningham inaugurate a new venue – and everyone’s invited 

    Jules Cunningham, left, and Alistair Spalding in the performance space at Sadler’s Wells East
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