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Lyndsey Winship

Lyndsey Winship is the Guardian's dance critic

October 2024

  • Hofesh Shechter’s Theatre of Dreams.

    Hofesh Shechter: ‘The biggest insult I’ve received is that I’m the rockstar of contemporary dance!’

    As Theatre of Dreams arrives in London, the celebrated choreographer and composer explains how having his laptop stolen was a blessing in disguise for his new show
  • Céline Gittens and Yasiel Hodelín Bello in Wubkje Kuindersma’s Luna.

    Birmingham Royal Ballet: Luna review – kaleidoscopic quintet shoots for the moon

    Employing five female choreographers in one production is a bold move but this sweeping celebration of strong women does not cohere
  • Dancers lean back, arms extended

    National Ballet of Canada: Frontiers review – heavenly revelations and indie spaghetti

    A triple bill of modern pieces highlight the challenges of modern ballet, but only in Crystal Pite’s work does it all comes together, especially in the dancing of Siphesihle November

September 2024

  • Alice curtseys while the queen peers down from atop a giant red plastic ballgown

    Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland review – all stops are pulled out for Wheeldon ballet

  • Emma Portner in rehearsals for Forever, Maybe in Sweden.

    ‘It’s an intensely beautiful moment – then it goes away’: Emma Portner on dance’s raw power

  • When the Bleeding Stops

    When the Bleeding Stops / Because I Can review – unexpectedly joyful reflection on menopause

  • Joseph Sissens

    Ballet star Joseph Sissens: ‘I’d be in this world of gross privilege, and then I’d go visit my brother in prison’

  • Jazz Conversations review – breezy tribute to Miles Davis

  • London City Ballet review – rebirth after almost three-decade absence

  • ‘How far do you go in the depiction of gay lovemaking?’: Christopher Wheeldon on his new Oscar Wilde ballet

  • Michael Turinsky: Precarious Moves review – unpredictable, uncategorisable and unexpected

  • Ballet Nights review – smorgasbord of styles and stars in one thrilling sitting

August 2024

  • Autumn Preview Film

    Autumn arts preview 2024
    From Charli XCX and Van Gogh to Gladiator 2: the best culture to go out and see this autumn

  • Q the music … QDance in Lagos, with Onikeku seated (centre).

    Choreographer Qudus Onikeku: ‘I want to mirror the real world – vibrant, chaotic, problematic’

  • Danced with care … Swan Lake by the State Ballet of Georgia.

    State Ballet of Georgia: Swan Lake review – flashes of terror amid endless stops for applause

  • From left to right; The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady, Natalie Palamides, Why Am I So Single? Writers Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss

    Autumn arts preview 2024
    A Six follow-up, an LA clown … and War Horse rides again: theatre, comedy and dance autumn preview

  • Waves of grief: this dance show about loss needed to be staged in the sea

  • ‘Ballet is so punk rock’: Neve Campbell and Karen Kain on pressure, pain – and partnering Nureyev

  • ‘I can move my body how I want’: standup Stephanie Laing on conquering her fear of public dancing

  • Dance and circus at Edinburgh fringe: high concepts and sky-scraping feats

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