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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Judith Mackrell

Three of the best... dance performances this week

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Photograph: Paul Kolnik

1 Candoco Dance Company

Dance plays a key role in the annual Unlimited festival for disabled artists and performers (Tue to 11 Sep), with this company performing, among others, a new work by Arlene Phillips.

The Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall, SE1, Tue

2 Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

The pioneering company founded by the African-American Ailey perform a repertory that ranges from Christopher Wheeldon’s neoclassical duet After The Rain to their signature classic, Revelations.

Sadler’s Wells, EC1, Tue to 17 Sep; touring to 19 Oct

3 Stomp

Perennially popular tap and street dance show, which sparks rhythm out of everything from Zippo lighters to dustbin lids.

Ambassadors Theatre, WC2, to 8 Jan

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