Matthew Bourne
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He turned Swan Lake into a homoerotic hit. Can Matthew Bourne work his magic on the best dance film ever? He talks toxic love triangles and knighthoods
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Unknown pleasures: do we enjoy art more if it's anonymous?
Lyndsey WinshipThe Royal Court has staged work by top-secret playwrights and Dance Umbrella is presenting new commissions by unnamed choreographers. Mystery performances can be liberating for artists as well as audiences
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The Olivier award-winning choreographer on working with Matthew Bourne, his creative process and his new production of Jekyll and Hyde
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Sadler’s Wells and Dance Umbrella have announced their autumn seasons and here are the highlights, including naked duets, ordinary Londoners and Pinocchio
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Choreographer says show based on 1948 film – a Broadway version of which flopped – will be his love letter to the theatre
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Teenage primary carers will perform a curtain-raiser for Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty at Sadler’s Wells – a chance to lessen their isolation and explore the expressive world of dance
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Wayne McGregor distilled the essence of Virginia Woolf while others tackled Milton and Samuel Beckett, and the beauty of maturity found champions in Alessandra Ferri and Sylvie Guillem
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Choreographer Matthew Bourne will host an evening of performances, from Rambert, Northern Ballet and more, paying tribute to the Car Man star
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This year’s award nominations are impressively diverse, with excellent independents vying with the titans of British dance, and fiftysomething dancers getting recognition
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For the last decade, too few women have received high-profile dance commissions and run big companies in the UK. Our live-streamed discussion will explore how to support them
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Dancer with Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures company who combined masculine power with emotional delicacy
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Jonathan Ollivier, who had a lead role in Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, was hit by a car in central London
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Matthew Bourne’s slick repair shop staging of Bizet’s Carmen is full of sexual charisma and violent passion
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Matthew Bourne’s noirish tale of a mysterious small-town mechanic remains sultry perfection
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American Ballet Theatre’s poster boy on dancing for Matthew Bourne, choreographing his own works and his ‘moment’ in London
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Late nights, early mornings, punishing schedules, stage fright, pulled hamstrings, failed auditions … Carlos Acosta, Tamara Rojo, Lauren Cuthbertson, Wayne McGregor, Matthew Bourne and more reveal the secrets of the dance studio
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The choreographer of a new work for the Royal Ballet’s Edward Watson and former New York City Ballet star Wendy Whelan talks about his influences – and the need to inject glamour into contemporary dance
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The choreographer, 55, on being surrounded by beautiful people, his friendship with Fred Astaire’s daughter, and becoming an orphan
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The wonders just keep coming in Matthew Bourne’s stunning new version of Edward Scissorhands, writes Luke Jennings
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Matthew Bourne: ‘Acting is tough and she’s the real thing – she’s 89 and still looking forward’
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With its locally auditioned young dancers, Matthew Bourne’s touring production vividly displays the children’s descent from innocence to savagery, writes Judith Mackrell
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Matthew Bourne and Tamara Rojo among judges hunting for talent in ballet, hip hop, south Asian and contemporary
The Red Shoes review – Matthew Bourne's enthralling dance of obsession