Consisting of 12 exceptionally talented dancers, the Contemporary Ballet Dance show is a multi-award winning, one of a kind production team who demonstrate an eclectic mix of beautiful dance styles. , Emma Byrne called it “a work of pure stagecraft” with “pitch-perfect performances” by Royal Ballet’s The Firebird / A Month in the Country / Symphony in CA triple bill by the Royal Ballet brought together three “exceptional” works by three 20th century greats: Mikhael Fokine’s The Firebird, Frederick Ashton’s A Month in the Country and George Balanchine’s Symphony in C. The , Fumi Kaneko and Yasmine Naghdi putting in star performances and a company “at the very top of its game”.This performance – celebrating the night the choreographer Merce Cunningham would have turned 100 – brought 25 dancers to the Barbican stage.

More Francesca Hayward as Princess Aurora in Sleeping BeautyAkane Takada as Princess Aurora in The Sleeping BeautyLaura Morera dances with Ryoichi Hirano in Winter DreamsLaura Morera dances with Vadim Muntagirov in La Fille Mal Gardée This dance genre is often done in bare feet. Meanwhile the venue’s smaller spaces – Linbury Studio Theatre and Clore Studio – offer a line-up of experimental and independent dance and music works. In Arthur Pita’s The Mother, based on a dark story by Hans Christian Andersen, a woman’s baby is grabbed by Death and she pursues to beg for the child’s return. Some of the most famous dance pieces have been ballet however, with the rise in the popularity of contemporary styles of dancing, the blending of both modern dance moves with classical ballet has resulted in contemporary ballet. There are also classes and courses for adults and children of all standards in ballet and contemporary techniques.Thanks for subscribing! We already have this email. London dance shows 2019: Best ballet and contemporary dance of the year, from Giselle to Spartacus.

Get us in your inbox We already have this email. Thanks for subscribing! Ballet Hispanico in Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Sombrerisimo. Residents English National Opera (ENO) and English National Ballet perform under artistic director John Berry and the programme veers from populist to highbrow. It’s the perfect host to the annual ‘Resolution!’ season that acts as a platform for fresh contemporary choreography. Emma Byrne chose two of their productions as her highlights of the year: and The Bright Stream. ... Royal Ballet’s The Firebird / A Month in the Country / Symphony in C. Time Out is a registered trademark of Time Out Digital Limited.Thanks for subscribing!

The production reimagined Giselle as part of a community of migrant workers who had been cast out of the clothes factory that they work in. The company’s own Carlos Acosta can be seen bounding across stage, and the Royal Opera House regularly invites visiting companies such as The Bolshoi. While remaining accessible in its programme, Sadler’s Wells puts on strong, often critically acclaimed, shows that cover tango, flamenco (watch out for the annual Flamenco Festival), hip hop, classical and contemporary ballet as well as Matthew Bourne’s special brand of populist dance. Despite some hitches on opening night (including Mercutio breaking his ankle at the start), the ballet harnessed the “raw energy” of the company’s young dancers: “every scene bursts with a sense of infectious vitality”. Laura Morera dances with Vadim Muntagirov in La Fille Mal Gardée The large studio has 300 seats raked to a stage 15m by 12m and affording a truly electrifying visual experience. Find shows, buy tickets, check seating charts, plan where to eat and how to get there. Déjà vu! “You just know Merce would have approved,” wrote Emma Byrne . Try another? In addition to the main theatre, the smaller Lilian Baylis Studio offers smaller-scale new works and works in progress, while the Peacock Theatre (on Portugal Street in Holborn) operates as a satellite venue.Having secured its position as one of the world’s great opera houses following a turn-of-the-century refurbishment, the Royal Opera House has been able to conduct something of a PR campaign: in a bold move to woo new audiences, the opening performance of 2008’s ‘Don Giovanni’ was made exclusive to Sun readers at knockdown rates and beamed live to a chain of cinemas, and the Ignite Festival draws punters in with a terrific range of art installations, films and performances.

As such, you can expect the programme to lean towards populist dance theatre from the likes of fluoro/UV dance company Momix and Miguel Angel Zotto’s Tango por Dos.

Try another? Just don’t wander in while the sun is still up: by night, the Peacock auditorium may play host to dance spectaculars, but by day the space becomes a lecture hall for the London School of Economics who owns the building.A beautiful glass-fronted building, The Place lifts an otherwise barren spot just off Euston Road. 100 solos from 54 works were performed, many side-by-side, “creating a mesmerising collage of sweeping limbs, bouncing jumps and precise geometric stillness”.Marianela Nuñez and Vadim Muntagirov stole the show in this staging of ’s Don Quixote, “powering through gala-friendly showstoppers”. “At times, the choreography appears to spring from Eliot’s metre, fully formed – in others, it seems to grab control of the poem and run,” Greek artist Dimitris Papaioannou was commissioned to create a piece for German dance company Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. “A triumph,” said the Standard’s review about his version of this tragic ballet with the ENB.