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Lyndsey Winship

Lyndsey Winship is the Guardian's dance critic

February 2025

  • Sean Gandini in Heka.

    Gandini Juggling: Heka review – a deep dive into the philosophy of misdirection

    Sean Gandini’s intricate and artful show about magic shows plays with the audience and the malleable sense of reality

January 2025

  • Caught in the middle … Sarah Chun and Harris Beattie in Fools.

    Northern Ballet: Three Short Ballets review – star-crossed lovers, a sunny party and a 20th-century classic

  • Dewey Dell perform The Rite of Spring.

    The Rite of Spring review – Stravinsky ignites a fantastical visual feast

  • Raymond Keane in Not a Word by Brú Theatre.

    Not a Word review – superbly strange tale makes the mundane mesmerising

  • Some literal swinging-from-the-chandeliers action in Corteo.

    Cirque du Soleil: Corteo review – high-risk, high-reward acrobatics are a giddy joy

  • Resolution festival review – scavenging predators and ex machina sirens

  • Dada Masilo obituary

  • ‘People get addicted to it’: the new London venue at the forefront of the great dance revival

  • 2025 culture preview
    Chills, chuckles and Cate Blanchett in Chekhov: the best theatre, dance and comedy coming in 2025

December 2024

  • Kimberley Rossi in Duck Pond by Circa at the Royal Festival Hall.

    Duck Pond review – masters of modern circus soar on the silks

  • From left: Songs of the Bulbul, Sarah Snook in The Picture of Dorian Gray and Catherine Bohart.

    2024 in Culture
    The best theatre, comedy and dance of 2024

  • Familiar but fresh … Ivana Bueno (first cast) as Clara in Nutcracker by English National Ballet at London Coliseum.

    Nutcracker review – Wonka meets Mary Poppins in English National Ballet’s reboot

  • Still the best Nutcracker on offer in the UK … Birmingham Royal Ballet’s 2024 production.

    Ballet legend Peter Wright: ‘Margot Fonteyn was cold as ice. Rudi Nureyev was a bit of a pain’

  • Play time
    Maddie Moate’s Very Curious Christmas review – CBeebies star’s scientific wonderland

  • Songs of the Wayfarer review – a likeable hike through life and theatre

November 2024

  • Akram Khan: Gigenis

    Akram Khan: Gigenis review – dancer’s exhilarating return to his roots with an expert ensemble

    In a production loosely based on the Mahabharata, Khan has gathered an expert ensemble of classical Indian dancers who create a world that echoes through the centuries
  • Judith Jamison, choreographer and artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, New York City

    Judith Jamison obituary

    Dancer and choreographer who rose to fame with Alvin Ailey’s company in New York and became its artistic director

    • MaddAddam review – an epic dance through Margaret Atwood’s dystopia

    • Chunky Move: 4/4 review – smooth moves and sudden stops to an off-kilter metronome

    • Ballet Black: Heroes review – double bill explores everyday heroism and the purgatory of daily life

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