The mighty Matthew Bourne has a way with ballet, and it isn’t simply to do with innovative choreography, great though that is. He can look at a classic dance narrative and spot the nuances, clues and implications that can spark off a whole new take on the…

The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen are usually less about fairies and more about forces of Nature, human behaviour, grotesquely powerful inanimate objects and the need for some universal (and ultimately Christian) code of morals to make sense o…

South African dancer and choreographer Dada Masilo has already made a huge splash in the world of dance with her fresh and exciting re-imaginings of ballet favourites “Swan Lake” and “Giselle”, but this take on Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” offers an…

Dance is ultimately a way of expressing the voices of others without ever speaking a word. Twin sisters and founders of Alleyne Dance, Kristina and Sadé Alleyne do just that in their production Far From Home, by revealing the voices of migrants and refuge…

Selling out Cluny 2 off the back of one EP and a reputation for raucous live shows, Cardiff four-piece Panic Shack shook things up on a miraculously sunny Good Friday night. First onstage though, Sunderland's bigfatbig were a reliably brilliant opener wit…