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Strictly Come Dancing, week 2: Tasha and Aljaz top the leaderboard with first 9s of the series
Tasha Ghouri waltzed her way to the top, while Toyah Wilcox languishes at the bottom of the board ahead of Sunday’s results show
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Ghost Ships at Historic Dockyard Chatham: Quite unlike anything you’ve seen before
This ambitious show, which recharts the dockyard’s history through hip hop and Kathak, is curate’s egg, but an irresistible one
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Chris McCausland’s Strictly Diary: ‘I declined to have the noisy crowd silenced’
In his exclusive weekly report, the blind comedian talks about pulling out all the stops and why Paul Merson is coming in handy
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Royal Ballet boss Kevin O’Hare: ‘You have to acknowledge what happened in our past’
The director of Britain’s flagship dance company talks about its difficult heritage and the importance of moving with the times
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Chris McCausland’s Strictly Diary: ‘My daughter is worried I’ll fall off the stage’
In his first exclusive column, the blind comedian shares how partner Dianne Buswell – and his 10-year-old – are whipping him into shape
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Akram Khan’s Giselle, ENB: So beautiful and blood-curdling, you forgive the lousy storytelling
The narrative is on the woolly side, but this revival of Khan’s bold take on the 1841 classic nevertheless packs an impressive punch
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Resurgence, London City Ballet: A respectable return for Diana’s favourite dance company
After an almost three-decade hiatus, the company is back, and on a mission to rescue works that have unjustly fallen through the cracks
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The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party: An irresistible celebration of dance and differentness
ZooNation’s hip-hop spin on the Lewis Carroll classic is back for a 10th-anniversary run at the Linbury – and resistance is useless
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The 10 best dance shows to book this autumn
From a new staging of Nutcracker to Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam, our critic picks the season’s biggest shows
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State Ballet of Georgia’s Swan Lake: a former Bolshoi star lends charm to an uneven evening
The company, on their first time performing in London, proved their ambition but this production fizzled more than it sizzled
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‘We love you, Gio!’: the superfans for whom Strictly Come Dancing can do no wrong
It may be mired in scandal but, for a large coterie of ‘Strictlies’, the show is unbreakable
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Shorter, snappier and less obsessed with social media – BBC bosses should learn from Strictly’s early days
The series has been plagued by scandal all summer, but a repeat showing of its first episode on BBC Four proved just how much fun it can be
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A Chorus Line, Sadler’s Wells, review: pure jazz-hands joy serves a dazzling celebration of the ensemble
Watching this troupe soar together in Michael Bennett’s classic musical about the travails of jobbing dancers on Broadway is mesmerising
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Edinburgh Festivals 2024: the 50 best shows to see this August
From comedy to theatre, opera to dance, our critics pick unmissable shows at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe, EIF, Art Festival and Book Festival
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‘We let Russians over if they behave themselves’: on the road with the State Ballet of Georgia
Ahead of its first visit to England, the company’s artistic director and star dancers talk about post-Soviet Tbilisi and pruning Swan Lake
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Carlos Acosta’s Carmen: An enjoyable if uneven take on Bizet’s classic
This latest version, danced by the zippy Havana-based Acosta Danza troupe, is fun and pacy – but doesn’t quite do the great score justice
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The eight best dance and ballet shows to see this summer
Ballet under the stars, the London debut of a colourful Swan Lake and our Dance Critic’s top picks from the Edinburgh Fringe
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Fuerza Bruta: The gravity-defying spectacle that inspired Madonna – and rewrote the rules of theatre
The Argentinian performance troupe combine physical prowess, passion and a shot of pure happiness to create a show like no other
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Joan Brady, ballet dancer turned novelist who won the Whitbread for Theory of War – obituary
She became the first woman to win Book of the Year, with her 1993 novel based on her grandfather’s life as a white boy sold into slavery
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Anton & Giovanni Together: the Live Tour, review: A so-so start, but the show finishes with a bang
The repartee is often wanting, but the excellent Together company and a beautiful tango from Pernice keeps the energy at feverish levels
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‘It’s a witch hunt’: Giovanni Pernice’s fans stand by embattled Strictly star
Giovanni Pernice and Anton Du Beke return to the stage with their live tour, Together, following the Italian pro’s departure from Strictly
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Star ballerina Natalia Osipova: ‘The Russian critics said I looked like Quasimodo’
The Royal Ballet principal turned her back on the toxic politics of the Russian ballet. Now living in London, she no longer feels ‘broken’
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Swan Lake in the round: Feel the sheer awe-inspiring power of the blizzard of tutus
ENB’s in-the-round epic at the Royal Albert Hall reminds us that tech trickery is no substitute for the impact of 60 dancers in perfect sync
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Ashton Celebrated, Royal Ballet: A bewitchingly good and bewilderingly bad tribute to our greatest choreographer
The Royal Opera House’s season in honour of its founder Frederick Ashton got off to a fascinating – but bizarrely mixed – start this week
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Romeo and Juliet, Northern Ballet: A cracking revival, with a central couple you actually care about
Bringing Prokofiev’s ballet to London is always a risky move, but this proves an impressively pulse-quickening production
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A Streetcar Named Desire: Scottish Ballet’s take on Tennessee Williams is feverishly compelling
This revival of the narrative ballet, back at Sadler’s Wells for the first time since 2015, is as potent and torrid as a summer’s night
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Degas’s dancers don’t just show ballet’s beauty – they reveal a sinister system of sexual exploitation
In the 19th century, Paris’s ballet world operated as a prepubescent prostitution ring – and its code of silence lives on
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Strictly, The Professionals: few surprises – but this tour thrills with the show’s uniting magic
Ditching the nervous newbies, there’s a dazzling energy to this slick production – even if no Strictly secrets are spilt
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The Winter’s Tale, Royal Ballet: Better than Shakespeare? Better believe it
Christopher Wheeldon has revived his beautiful adaptation of the Bard’s tonally wonky play – and it’s a must-see delight
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Hop it, Shakespeare – 8 adaptations that beat the Bard’s original
As three new adaptations open in the West End, we count down the greatest takes on his work
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Cycles: a turbo-charged British dance troupe hits new heights
This terrific new piece from hip-hop company Boy Blue is a love letter to the euphoria you experience when you completely surrender to music
