Theatre & Dance

'Glacial Decoy'

Trisha Brown Dance Company, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (Rated 3/ 5 )

This year's Dance Umbrella celebrated Trisha Brown, an iconic postmodernist choreographer who emerged from the art scene of downtown New York in the 1970s. At the outset of her career she gave performances in lofts, in galleries, in unexpected spaces. She rigged up dancers with ropes, so that they could walk round tree trunks or down the sides of buildings.

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Royal Ballet Mixed Bill, Royal Opera House, London (Rated 4/ 5 )

Tuesday, 19 October 2010

Kim Brandstrup's new Invitus Invitam for the Royal Ballet cuts between a story and the process of telling it, in a whirl of absorbing dance and computer imagery. It's part of a long but rewarding mixed bill.

Deborah Warner: To the ends of the Earth

Tuesday, 19 October 2010

When theatre director Deborah Warner travelled to the Arctic, she discovered the hard, shattering truth about climate change – and now has to put it on stage

Flashdance, Shaftesbury Theatre, London (Rated 4/ 5 )

Monday, 18 October 2010

A dancer's dreams come true

Onassis, Novello, London
Love, Love, Love, Drum, Plymouth
Broken Glass, Tricycle, London

Sunday, 17 October 2010

Jackie tittle-tattle is a sideshow in this sweeping study of greed, lust, and the tycoon lifestyle

Doctor Who Live, Wembley Arena, London

Sunday, 17 October 2010

Who can fill Wembley without turning up?

Candoco, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Flashdance, Shaftesbury Theatre, London

Sunday, 17 October 2010

The aesthetics of prosthetics – or, the peculiar demands of the disabled pas-de-deux

Andrea Dunbar: A genius from the slums

Sunday, 17 October 2010

A new film revisits the short life and harsh vision of Andrea Dunbar. Its director, Clio Barnard, explains why the teenage playwright is more relevant than ever

The Belfast Festival at Queen's 2010

Friday, 15 October 2010

Now in its 48th year, the Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s once again brings an extraordinary programme of cultural delight, to excite inspiration and provoke thought.

The diary: Andrew Motion; Booker Prize; Steve Lazarides; Ed Vaizey; Nerve

Friday, 15 October 2010

Booker exiles

Barak Marshall: Monger, Barbican Theatre, London (Rated 3/ 5 )

Friday, 15 October 2010

"Yes, Mrs Margaret," says the woman, speaking into a microphone. "I'm sorry, Mrs Margaret. It won't happen again." She vanishes into the dark, pulled away by her fellow servants. There may be dark deeds going on, but Barak Marshall's Monger slips right back into comedy and bouncy Gypsy music. His characters' domestic struggle has a soundtrack that includes retro adverts for traditional Jewish food, with close harmony jingles for gefilte fish.

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