Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe curiosity of choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is a smart fit with NYDC’s 38 young performers in a challenging large-scale project

Russian dancer Diana Vishneva pirouettes between Moscow and New York – with masseurs on speed-dial around the world. The superballerina tells Judith Mackrell about why she’s worried about the future of Russian dance and wanting to start a family

April 12--"Oklahoma!" is about America growing into adulthood. "The Sound of Music" pairs romance and family reconstruction with growing moral determination. But "Carousel," the most emotionally potent of all the great Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II musicals, veers on the tragic, with two lovers who seem to know their…

From Sonia Delaunay in London to Li Bunyan in Manchester, Skye Sherwin and Robert Clark find out what’s happening in art around the country

April 10--Inconceivable without their international success with "The Red Shoes" three years earlier, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's audacious screen version of the Jacques Offenbach operetta "The Tales of Hoffmann" came out in 1951. The following spring Hollywood's company picnic, also known as the Academy Awards, gave "An American in…

The desert rang to the sounds of weird hip-hop, folk rock and sleazy R&B as the festival passed the halfway mark