Svapnagata Festival

For fans of Akram Khan, this festival he curated with Nitin Sawhney offers a sense of his choreographic journey

Nation

God is dead, says the National’s Christmas show, but this prissy Pratchett adaptation never comes alive

Video: How to do Beyonce's 'Single Ladies' dance

Seventy million fans have watched the YouTube clip of the undoubted dance of the year. But how hard is Single Ladies?

BBC abandons ballet with deformed rapist Pope

The Spirit Of Diaghilev from Sadler’s Wells had been announced as one of the highlights of the Christmas schedule

A Life in the Day: Carlos Acosta

The Cuban-born dancer on the rhythms of life in London and Havana

Dancer to have epileptic fit on stage

Arts Council-funded performance during which epileptic dancer will attempt to induce a seizure condemned as 'freakish'

The 50 best Christmas shows

The finest theatre and dance for December, from the Nutcracker to A Christmas Carol, from The Lion King to Aladdin

Wayne McGregor's new Royal Ballet work

Balanchine and Stravinsky’s collaboration Agon, Glen Tetley's Sphinx and Limen make up the triple bill at Covent Garden

Wendy Houstoun

Houstoun seems to be showing us that dance is not necessarily reserved for the young: she is a survivor no matter what the odds

Rambert celebrates Charles Darwin

Confusion is rife in Rambert's revolutionary Sadler's Wells premiere, but Mark Morris serves up a powerful treat

Royal Ballet at Covent Garden

Limen, the latest premiere for the choreographer Wayne McGregor, is full of unsettling dark emotion and sexual energy

Rambert

There is no doubting the sophistication of Henri Oguike’s Tread Softly, his first creation for Rambert

Michael Keegan-Dolan and the Rite of Spring

At English National Opera the Irish choreographer is giving Stravinsky’s masterpiece a radical makeover

Mark Morris: a garden of earthly delights

Mark Morris returns to the Wells on glorious form, while choreograoher Christopher Wheeldon adds a touch of mystery

Mark Morris

The second programme from the Mark Morris Dance Group is as magical and amazing as the first because every aspect works so harmoniously

Diary: Mark Baldwin, artistic director of Rambert Dance Company

On flirting, birds and the tango

Mark Morris Dance Group

There are no sets because none is needed: this is dance that totally — gloriously — speaks for itself

Shobana Jeyasingh

Jeyasingh’s choreography is nervy yet more consciously stylish than her previous work, almost as if she is staging her own rave