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Lyndsey Winship

Lyndsey Winship is the Guardian's dance critic

August 2024

  • Cumulative power … Grupo Corpo perform in Edinburgh.

    Grupo Corpo review – the Brazil of Gilberto Gil and Umbanda in music, mood and motion

    This double bill has sun and shade, and if at times the momentum gets stuck there’s still a mighty spring in its step

July 2024

  • Waves by Cloud Gate

    Let’s get physical: the science of dance at the Venice Biennale

    The dance festival’s opening weekend, under the theme We Humans, focused as much on gravity and technology as emotional connection
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    Bullyache’s Who Hurt You? review – a messy self-assured world of glitter and sweat

    Like a live music video crossed with avant-garde dance theatre – and utterly steeped in young queer British culture
    • Carlos Acosta’s Carmen review – a giddy Cuban tragedy

    • Breakdancing in your 50s: ‘My body can still do everything – but it might take a year to heal an injury’

    • Play time
      Enitan’s Game review – warm-hearted children’s show from Punchdrunk Enrichment

June 2024

  • Moving Cloud by Scottish Dance Theatre.

    Edinburgh festival 2024: dance and circus shows to jump into this summer

  • Something from almost nothing … Chiara Bersani in L'Animale.

    Chiara Bersani: L’Animale review – pay attention to every tiny detail

  • ‘After people pretending to be cats, people pretending to be trains wasn’t such a leap’ … Starlight Express.

    How we made
    ‘Steffi Graf went to see it 12 times!’ How we made rollerskating sensation Starlight Express

  • Nadia Beugre: L'Homme Rare

    Nadia Beugré: L’Homme Rare review – no muscle is left untwerked

  • Eva Yerbabuena: Yerbagüena review – mercurial flamenco that’s full of surprises

  • ‘Not just a diet of Swan Lake and Cinderella’: the resurrection of London City Ballet

  • The Royal Ballet: Ashton Celebrated review – a world where everything is just delightful

May 2024

  • ‘I show the human desires we all have’ … Molina in Al Fondo Riela.

    ‘I have to be honest – even if it’s nasty’: the jaw-dropping fetish flamenco of Rocío Molina

  • Mosh, written and directed by Ní Bhraonáin and choreographed by Robyn Byrne

    ‘A good way to get out stress’: the magnetic force of the mosh pit

  • Revel Puck Circus at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.

    The Nose Dive Assembly review – a gen Z take on the trad touring circus

  • Felicity Chadwick (top) and Jamiel Devernay-Laurence. at Ministry of Sound.

    Bangers and ballet: London’s Ministry of Sound embraces contemporary dance

  • Brighton festival: Lived Fiction/Fault Lines review – revolutionary dance

  • Margaret Williams obituary

  • The Passion of Andrea 2 review – Pythonesque dancefloor caper

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