Sacred Monsters, London
Catch this brief season while you can: Sylvie Guillem – the stellar French ballerina who reinvented herself as a curious-minded explorer of contemporary dance – has announced that she will stop performing soon after she turns 50. Sacred Monsters is the duet she created back in 2006 with Akram Khan and was one of her early experiments in new terrain. Not only is she partnered here with the Kathak-trained Khan, dancing the fluid, grounded choreography of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre director Lin Hwai-min, she is also featured in a speaking role, as she and Khan compare the pressures of their dancing careers.
Sadler’s Wells, EC1, Tue to 29 Nov
Playing Another, Lancaster
Candoco is one of the UK’s oldest integrated dance companies (a company made up of both disabled and non-disabled dancers), its adventurously commissioned repertory challenging both choreographers and dancers to think about dance and disabilities in different ways. This autumn sees a new work by the wonderfully uncategorisable Hetain Patel (visual artist, comedian, dancer) called Let’s Talk About Dis, which questions the nature of personal identity and the relationship between inner self and outer appearance. It’s paired with an outing for Notturnino, a piece by Thomas Hauert which takes inspiration from Tosca’s Kiss, a documentary made in 1984 about retired opera singers living in a nursing home in Milan.
Live At LICA, Thu; touring to 10 Dec
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