By Sanjoy Roy Like voters, audiences can be simultaneously essential, dissenting, and unfathomable. Take the sold-out mixed program by Nederlands Dans Theater at Sadler’s Wells, featuring one old and two new pieces. Everything looked great and was danced brilliantly (a sound reason for the company’s enduring popularity). What about the works? Audiences, fans, and critics
By Sanjoy Roy When narrative dance works well, it’s gripping: the story is embodied in the performance. When it doesn’t, it looks like much ado about something or other: we sense the physicality but not the story. Like Water for Chocolate, Christopher Wheeldon’s new three-act work for the Royal Ballet (a co-production with American Ballet
By Gerard Davis Keeping active and sociable is vitally important to humans everywhere, including seniors, as the repeated lockdowns of the COVID pandemic have highlighted. In 2011, Bupa (the UK’s largest private healthcare provider) produced Shall We Dance?, a comprehensive report on the subject, which concluded that dance “can benefit both the physical health of