Judith Mackrell
Judith Mackrell is the Guardian's dance critic
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English National Ballet review – Bausch's Rite of Spring is as raw as everThe first UK company to perform Pina Bausch’s epic piece hurl themselves against exhaustion as they draw us into a world of hypnotic emotion
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From Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead to Lïnger: this week’s best theatre and danceDaniel Radcliffe and Joshua McGuire let the sparks fly in Tom Stoppard’s comedy, and ex-Riverdancer Breandán de Gallaí duets with Nick O’Connell
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A kaleidoscope of legs: Busby Berkeley's flamboyant dance fantasiesIn hit movies like 42nd Street, Berkeley liberated dance from the stage and placed it in a purely cinematic dimension with dizzyingly inventive routines
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Trisha Brown obituaryInfluential US choreographer first admired for her spare, subversive dances who underwent a radical shift as she was gripped by ‘a rapture to move’
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Danza Contemporánea de Cuba review – a fierce call for revolutionThe company’s three works explore hothouse machismo, private headspace and colliding forces in Cuban society with power and urgency
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Nell Gwynn and Ballet Black: this week’s best UK theatre and danceChristopher Luscombe’s frisky production tackles male domination of the stage, while a new mixed bill at the Barbican features Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
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Pointe break: ballet's destructive power laid bare in Sergei Polunin documentarySteven Cantor’s intimate film about the rebellious dancer exposes the pressures heaped on young prodigies – and has vital lessons for the industry
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Israel Galván: FLA.CO.MEN review – 'It's an evening that screams avant garde!'Galván’s wild flamenco reinventions show mesmerising prowess – though not when he’s being pelted by paper balls
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Les Enfants Terribles review – Javier De Frutos teases out sex-games siblings' inner damageWith eight Royal Ballet dancers enacting the claustrophobic world of an incestuous couple, De Frutos weaves intricate physical poetry around Jean Cocteau’s text and Philip Glass’s limiting score
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Us/Them and Woolf Works: this week’s best UK theatre and danceA remarkable look at the Beslan school tragedy and a homage by Wayne McGregor to Virginia Woolf. Plus: The Glass Menagerie, Letters To Windsor House, Love, Travesties, Sampled and Cinderella
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Think on your feet: how Siobhan Davies' dance show connects mind and bodyThe choreographer’s latest project explores the ‘intelligent body’, as her audience follow their own path through the Barbican’s Curve gallery
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Les Enfants Terribles: Cocteau's scandalous siblings dance on the edgeAhead of the Royal Ballet’s new production of Philip Glass’s dance opera, based on the poetic French novel, choreographer Javier De Frutos and his principal dancers talk incest, jealousy and revenge
Royal Ballet gambles on new talent and competitive spirit to invigorate classics