... CLOWNING AROUND on Picture: Tristram Kenton. Nickolas Grace in Dick Wittington, London's Musical at Sadler's Wells. Short of the magic touch Sadler's Wells Dick Whittington, London's Musical Pre-publicity for this Christmas entertainment suggested that it ...

... Curtain raiser is the livery Concerto, set to a Shostakovich score and featuring the principals who recently danced it at Sadler's Wells while the company was in exile. First night nerves marred the opening section. But in the Adagio it is wonderful to watch ...

... Rumbadelica Sadler's Wells Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez described Cuba as the most dance-oriented country on earth, and watching this two-hour journey through the island's choreographic heritage, it would be hard to disagree. Presented ...

... Accomplished set of actors Sadler's Wells Graeae: The Missing Piece Those 12 actors who completed Graeae's new Missing Piece training course for performers who have physical or sensory disabilities have already earned their Equity cards. Six months' intensive ...

... Fine stab at old classic Sadler's Wells Carmen It would not be true to say that this is ballet for those who would not normally attend a dance performance, but it is evident that Northern Ballet Theatre has tapped into a new audience with its adaptations ...

... Remarkable vision enthrals Sadler's Wells Rambert Dance Company -- Programme 1 It is not only the introduction of the proms-style presentation-- 450 punters paying to stand where the stalls seats had been and looking for all the world like a mosh pit ...

... Rambert Dance Company -- Programme 2 Sadler's Wells Merce Cunningham's gentle, mesmerising Beach Birds is the perfect opening work for Rambert's second week at Sadler's Wells. Formed, as all of his work has been since 1991, partly through the computer ...

... Mozartina Sadler's Wells Zurich Ballet makes its British debut with the London premiere of this work, a two-hour, two-part piece loosely based on the life of the great composer and set to some of his most fabulous music courtesy of the London Mozart Players ...

... Grupo Corpo Brazil 500: Sadler's Wells With Grupo Corpo the integration is complete, the dance is the music and the music is the dance. But, as the two works on display, Parabelo and Benguele, demonstrated, this is not a folkloric company but a highly ...

... Lacking a spark Sadler's Wells Irek Mukhamedov and Company with Altynai Asylmuratova As dance stars go, they do not come more luminous than Irek Mukhamedov and Altynai Asylmuratova. The Russian pair outshine just about everyone else on stage. They are ...

... Cut classic off course Sadler's Wells Romeo and Juliet For all their supposed modernity, contemporary choreographers cannot resist the classics. Mark Morris was among the first to plunder ballet's canon with The Hard Nut (1991), his version of The Nutcracker ...

... Bejart Ballet--Programme Two Sadler's Wells At the age of 73 and after over 45 years of making ballets that have antagonised as many as they have pleased, Maurice Bejart shows no signs of easing up. Whether one thinks of him as poseur or populist, Bejart's ...