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Dance

3 February 2025

  • Eloise Skinner at a ballet class

    The one change that worked
    The one change that worked: I took up ballet – and learned to live in the moment

    Working long days as a corporate lawyer, I needed an exercise regime to get me out of my head. Reviving a childhood passion helped me reconnect with my body

2 February 2025

  • A.I.M By Kyle Abraham: An Untitled Love.

    The week in dance: A.I.M By Kyle Abraham: An Untitled Love; Stav Struz Boutrous: Sepia; Northern Ballet: Three Short Ballets – review

    Contenders for two new dance prizes include Kyle Abraham’s buoyant celebration of Black life and an intriguing twist on Georgian folk dance. Elsewhere, a township spin on Romeo and Juliet
  • A portrait of dancer Lauren Cuthbertson.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Ballerina Lauren Cuthbertson: ‘There’s a saying that dancers die twice, the first time when they stop dancing’

    The Royal Ballet principal on her late career debut, taking her daughters to work, and playing goodies and baddies
  • Leigh Bowery photographed in east London, August 1984.

    ‘A living, breathing work of art’: Leigh Bowery by those who knew him best

    The performance artist shocked 1980s London with his surreal outfits, outlandish lifestyle and collaborations with Lucian Freud, dancer Michael Clark and others. As a major exhibition opens at Tate Modern, family and friends talk about Bowery’s larger-than-life legacy

1 February 2025

  • Sheila Hancock shot for the Observer magazine for her 92nd birthday.

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer Photography

    From Brooke Shields on abuse and ageing to fashion outfits chosen by AI: the best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in January 2025
  • A scene from English National Ballet’s Swan Lake at the Royal Albert Hall in 2024.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: The Hot Wing King, Sister Act and Swan Lake

    Katori Hall’s culinary comedy, a heavenly Beverley Knight and English National Ballet at Royal Albert Hall are among this month’s highlights
  • The Harder They Fall, part of Black Rodeo season at London’s BFI.

    Going out, staying in
    From Saturday Night to Manic Street Preachers: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

    The origins of US sketch comedy SNL are dramatised, while the perennial Welsh rock trio return with their 15th album

January 2025

  • Ellen Elphick dancing

    Royal Ballet school settles with former student over body shaming claim

  • It’s a ‘unique opportunity’ … James Pidgeon, left, and Drew McOnie announce Regent’s Park Open Air theatre’s new season.

    Broadway hit Shucked kicks off Drew McOnie’s debut season at Regent’s Park Open Air theatre

  • 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

  • Portrait of dancer Elizabeth Cameron Dalman standing outside

    Elizabeth Cameron Dalman at 91: ‘In dance we are ageless’

  • Royal Ballet: Onegin review – Marianela Nuñez is a marvel of desperation and desire

  • Going out, staying in
    From The Brutalist to FKA twigs: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment in the UK

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

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

  • Claire van Kampen: a world-class theatre composer and bright star of Shakespeare’s Globe

  • The week in dance: Mary Skeaping’s Giselle; Resolution festival review – old and new thrills

  • Going out, staying in
    A Complete Unknown to The Night Agent: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment in the UK

  • Graham Marchant obituary

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

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