'Understand – it hurts': giants of dance reveal its tolls and triumphs
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...
View ArticleWorld Ballet Day – eight books that bring ballet to life
It’s not difficult to find sport featuring in children’s books these days, but did you know that there’s an entire genre dedicated to ballet? In celebration of World Ballet Day, here are some of our...
View ArticleThe Royal Ballet's Romeo and Juliet: 50 years of star-crossed dancers – in...
It’s half a century since Kenneth MacMillan’s Shakespearean ballet premiered at the Royal Opera House in London. Here are some of the dancers who have been paired as the doomed lovers, from Margot...
View ArticleDancing with Darcey
How I witnessed a focused young girl grow into the woman who personified the Royal Ballet.William Trevitt and Darcey Bussell in Kiss at Sadler's Wells. Photograph: Tristram KentonDarcey was the new...
View ArticleBlinded by Sylvie Guillem's knickers: dancers and Strictly stars' missteps
Darcey Bussell was very friendly with the floor in rehearsals. Kevin Clifton’s Thriller-style tango tanked on live TV. And Thomas Whitehead got trapped in his ballerina’s underwear. Seven dance-floor...
View ArticleFab-u-lous! Ore’s jive wins Strictly’s big night of magic and schmaltz
BBC presenter sees off Louise Redknapp and Danny Mac in the final as Len Goodman bellows his last ever scoreIt was always going to be a momentous Strictly Come Dancing final, and not just because...
View ArticleTuesday’s best TV: Hilda Ogden’s Last Ta-Ra: A Tribute To Jean Alexander;...
The queen of Corrie remembered by her friends, rollers and all; plus high-pressure Masterchef pro final beginsThe Giants Live qualifier kicks off in Norrköping, Sweden, with contestants from around the...
View ArticleDarcey Bussell: Looking for Margot review – a life dancing close to the edge
Fonteyn’s story of Panamanian revolution puts Bussell in the shade. Plus, Inside the Christmas Factory, with shouty Gregg Wallace and Cherry HealeyTowards the end of Darcey Bussell: Looking for Margot...
View ArticleThe week in TV: Feud: Bette and Joan; Shamed; The League of Gentlemen and more
Feud brilliantly revives the famed enmity between Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, Shamed pokes at fresher wounds, and it’s farewell Royston VaseyFeud: Bette and Joan (BBC2/iPlayer) Shamed (C4) | All...
View ArticleDarcey Bussell steps back in time – in pictures
In her new book, Evolved, the Strictly judge and former Royal Ballet star gives an intimate account of her career, alongside photographs of her rehearsals, performances and fashion shootsContinue...
View ArticleGood news, lads – we’re all Strictly dancers now | Rhik Samadder
Dame Darcey Bussell has pronounced that boys are now less inhibited on the dancefloor than girls. Time to unstiffen our upper lips and start flossingBoys are less inhibited on the dancefloor than girls...
View ArticleFab-u-lous! Dancing queen Darcey Bussell at 50 – in pictures
Darcey Bussell, former Royal Ballet principal and Strictly Come Dancing judge, turns 50 on 27 April. We look back at the career of the most famous British ballerina of her generationContinue reading...
View ArticleMotsi Mabuse to join Strictly Come Dancing judging panel
Mabuse, whose sister Oti dances on the show, will replace judge Darcey Bussell Darcey Bussell will be replaced when she steps down as a Strictly Come Dancing judge by Motsi Mabuse, elder sister of Oti,...
View ArticleDarcey Bussell explodes! The Royal Ballet in black and white – in pictures
From Darcey Bussell impersonating an exploding star in Apollo to Jonathan Cope posing like Elvis in Frankenstein, we celebrate the elegant, magical beauty of the Royal Ballet in the 1980s and...
View ArticleDarcey Bussell: 'Mum sent me to ballet class to control my clumsiness'
The dancer and Strictly judge on childhood food memories – and what she keeps in her BBC fridgeMy earliest memory is of Weetabix. I lived on them. For my favourite meal, breakfast, I could get through...
View ArticleDarcey Bussell: why Top Hat is my Christmas treat
The dancer has to go cheek to cheek with Fred Astaire. But how do other stars spend Christmas? Richard Curtis, Stephen K Amos and more reveal allBallerina and Strictly Come Dancing judgeWe watch Top...
View ArticleDarcey Bussell’s Looking for Audrey; Al Murray’s Great British Spy Movies –...
Fangirl Darcey’s Roman holiday adds little private colour to the Hepburn story, while Al Murray’s spy snoop neither shakes nor stirs …Along with Bob Marley and Che Guevara, another figure adorns the...
View ArticleDarcey Bussell to front BBC’s search for UK’s best young dancer
BBC is devoting year of programming to music and dance including how to make a pop song and ballet documentariesThe BBC is devoting a year of specially commissioned programming to the worlds of music...
View ArticleStrictly no celebs: young dancers compete for the BBC’s new title
Young Dancer 2015 contest hopes to find the next generation of stars for Royal Ballet and Sadler’s WellsThe British have a longstanding love of TV dance shows. Think only of the huge popularity of Come...
View Article'Understand – it hurts': giants of dance reveal its tolls and triumphs
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...
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