Learning ballet in a Rio favela: 'It's the only good thing that has happened here' – video
In Rio de Janeiro’s notorious Morro do Adeus a young ballerina is teaching pliés and jumps and offering girls an opportunity to transcend their harsh reality
As the ballet dancer makes his last performances for the Royal Ballet, he will join us for a live webchat on Tuesday 1 December – post your questions for him below 1.20pm GMT Carlos Acosta has the kind of fairytale story that might make for a good ballet one day: the hard-knock life in Havana...
Sadler’s Wells, LondonConceal | Reveal features Spiral Pass, one of Maliphant’s finest, most beautiful works, but elsewhere the ensemble’s chemistry is lost For two decades, Michael Hulls and Russell Maliphant have been exploring the alchemy of light and dance – light that can gild a moving body with metallic radiance, dissolve it into shimmering atoms,...