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Lyndsey Winship

Lyndsey Winship is the Guardian's dance critic

April 2025

  • Sasha Waltz, In C

    In C review – Sasha Waltz matches Terry Riley’s 1964 classic with a minimalist community

    The choreographer pairs the semi-improvised score with similarly loose structures that reflect on collective action and identity
  • Emilyn Claid

    ‘The audience chucked food at us!’ Emilyn Claid on angry shows, her ballet shame and gardening for Martha Graham

    As she unveils The Trembling Forest with an ensemble of clay-covered performers, the great dance disruptor looks back on decades of radical and autobiographical shows
    • Snow White/Snow White: The Sacrifice review – puts the Grimm back in the tale

    • Wake review – Irish dance takes a raucous, pole-dancing rollercoaster ride

    • Royal Ballet to perform Justin Peck’s Everywhere We Go, with music by Sufjan Stevens

March 2025

  • Jules Cunningham (right) in Crow/Pigeons.

    Julie Cunningham & Company: Crow/Pigeons review – a beady dance delight

  • Fiendishly difficult … dancers from Lyon Opera Ballet perform Beach Birds by Merce Cunningham.

    Lyon Opera Ballet: Cunningham Forever review – a modern master’s wild ambition

  • Isabela Coracy with the Ballet Black dancers in My Sister, the Serial Killer.

    Ballet Black: Shadows review – killer moves in a dance adaptation of murderous blockbuster

  • A scene from In The Fall by Noé Soulier, performed by Trisha Brown Dance Company at Sadler's Wells.

    Trisha Brown Dance Company & Noé Soulier review – perfect poses and brilliant bounce

  • ‘We fell in love with the ballet and with her’: why 184-year-old Giselle keeps us swooning

  • Keep dancing: Chanel DaSilva on taking risks, dealing with grief and tackling Trump

  • Inside Giovanni’s Room review – pulsing dance retelling of James Baldwin novel

  • Osipova/Linbury review – superstar ballerina reckons with the icons of dance

  • Mythili Prakash: She’s Auspicious review – a paean to girl power

February 2025

  • That daring young royal on his flying trapeze … Dylan Barone in the title role.

    Revered in Riyadh but nixed in New York: how The Little Prince (almost) conquered the world

  • Wayne McGregor's Deepstaria.

    Deepstaria review – Wayne McGregor’s otherworldly creatures beguile

  • Dan Baines and Harry Alexander in Mariposa.

    DeNada Dance Theatre: Mariposa review – Madame Butterfly metamorphosed

  • Kévin Coquelard in Birdboy.

    Birdboy review – moments of spark in dark, chilly redemption story

  • Figures in Extinction review – life, death and a heartfelt plea for Earth’s creatures, humans included

  • ‘Why aren’t there Oscars for what we do?’ Choreographer Ellen Kane lets rip

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