Direct from Buenos Aires Immortal Tango dances into London next week where it will have its world premiere at The Peacock. Created by international tango superstar German Cornejo, Immortal Tango brings to life the glamour of vintage Hollywood in a dazzling show of sultry passion, elegant costumes, live music and some of the most exquisite tango ever performed.

Pictured above is German Cornejo in rehearsal with his dance partner of Gisela Galeassi and the live band. On stage they will be joined by fourteen more world-class dancers to deliver smouldering dance moves, scintillating steps, and whirlwind twirls allowing a rare glimpse into authentic Argentinian style.

Tickets are on sale and can be bought here.

Preparations are in full swing for Natalia Osipova’s new show with Sadler’s Wells – due to premiere at the London theatre on 29 June until 3 July. This brand new production will show Natalia’s experiments with contemporary dance as she searches for new ways to express herself artistically.

The show is made up of three new pieces choreographed by Sadler’s Wells’ Associate Artists Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Russell Maliphant, alongside Opera House regular Arthur Pita. If their three new pieces aren’t mind blowingly exciting enough – then how about the fact that Natalia will be joined on stage by Sergei Polunin for these world premieres. This will be the first time they have ever danced together in the UK.

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Photo credit: Dana Fouras

Just as the calendars went from 2015 – 2016, m¡longa proved it’s timeless quality as everyone set off to Chile for four performances as part of the Santiago a Mil Festival. The performances went fantastically, and as always it was a smash-hit success with the audience enthralled by the dazzling alternative take on tango.

Pictured above is all of m¡longa’s cast and crew on stage at the Teatro Municipal De Santiago in all their glory.

The lead up to Christmas was a dazzling, history-making, triumph for Sylvie and the Life in Progress team. Performing five shows in the beautiful Tokyo Bunka Kaikan theatre this marked the end of Sylvie’s dazzling career. As 11,500 fans travelled – some across borders – to witness this epic event Tokyo’s NBS laid on the treats in the foyer. This included a video booth where people could record personal messages to Sylvie as well as huge video screens where Sylvie had recorded her own message to her fans and a video round up of her career highlights – of which there are so many to choose from!

2015 really did mark history in dance and the Life in Progress team excelled in creating beautiful memories for dance fans across the world: as they visited 23 different venues in 22 cities in 14 countries.

And to celebrate the end of the fantastic tour – Sylvie and the team decided to go bowling in their brand new tour t-shirts. What an end to a spell-binding tour.

Sadler’s Wells was just down the road at the 2300 seat London Coliseum last week for six performances of Carlos Acosta’s A Classical Selection. The show consisted of twelve pieces danced by Carlos and eight other dancers from The Royal Ballet.

Over the course of last week Carlos’ leaps and turns were accompanied by wild eruptions of applause from a jam packed Coliseum audience of an array of fans including Strictly Come Dancing’s Bruno Tonioli. Bruno enjoyed the show so much he couldn’t resist but to go backstage after to get a selfie in with Carlos.

And Carlos’ A Classical Selection wasn’t just getting top marks from the judges, read the stellar reviews from critics here and here.

Dawn Prentice, head of touring was at the House of Lords to celebrate the launch of International Dance Festival Birmingham 2016.

Sadler’s Wells’ Sampled production will head to Birmingham Hippodrome in the New Year. The forecast is rowdy as Sampled is due to bring some of Sadler’s Wells’ own va va voom to the venue with performances in both the main house and the front of house spaces including pre-show activities in the foyer.

The line-up is stellar with performances including Company Wayne McGregor, Birmingham Royal Ballet, BBC Young Dancer finalist Vidya Patel, m¡longa’s world tango champions German Cornejo and Gisela Gallessi, and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Faun. Therefore Sampled showcases some of the world’s best performers in an array of styles.

Pictured above is Dawn Prentice with Rosie Kay (from Rosie Kay Dance Company), and DanceXchange Associate Artist Roxana Silbert, Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

The m¡longa team left their warm homes in Buenos Aires and flew to Moscow last week – where it was a significant few degrees colder. However, once they arrived in Russia and began their feisty tango moves the city began to melt as it become hot and fiery and filled with South American passion.

Over the course of two performances to a jam packed audiences m¡longa’s universal appeal was evident and that wherever it is being performed in the world, audiences will always give it a standing ovation.

Pictured above is proud choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui catching a selfie with the m¡longa hanging poster outside the Bolshoi Theatre.

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A great week for Sadler’s Wells’ Producing and Touring in New York continued with a revival of Thomas Adés’ ‘Concentric Paths – Movement in Music’ over three performances also at New York City Center as part of the White Light Festival.

The quadruple bill consisted of Wayne McGregor’s ‘Outlier’, Karol Armitage’s ‘Life Story’, Alexander Whitley’s ‘The Grit in the Oyster’, before ending with Crystal Pite’s ‘Polaris’ danced by over sixty dancers. As you can imagine the result was an epic mix of creative choreography and mesmerising movement accompanied by an intensely transformative score executed by a full orchestra lead by Adés.

Pictured above is Crystal Pite giving notes to a small selection of the dancers in ‘Polaris’ on the stage, while the orchestra and composer Adés work below.

As Life in Progress approaches the end of its tour the show proved it’s still as fantastic as ever with three astounding performances at New York City Center. The crowd were in awe and Sylvie dazzled them and wowed them, and even made them laugh when she popped on stage for a quick bit improvisation during ‘Duo2015’ – the only piece which she doesn’t dance.

The company and crew felt right at home in New York and pictured above is beatboxer Grace with a Sea Shepherd sticker found at one of the city’s coffee houses.

With only one European performance in St. Polten left before the tour and Sylvie’s incomparable stage career culminate in Tokyo be sure to catch it while you can – or live to regret missing it forever!

Last week saw the world premiere of Gravity Fatigue on Sadler’s Wells’ stage. Each night sold out audiences were captivated by the energetic show, bursting into applause between the scenes as well as at the end, before eventually getting on their feet when Hussein Chalayan and Damien Jalet came on stage for a bow.

Altogether the combination of the highly talented dancers, Natasha Chivers’ lighting, Yeast Culture’s projections, MODE-F’s music, Damien Jalet’s movement, and Hussein Chalayan’s ideas and direction meant for a unique and unrivalled set of performances, which if you didn’t manage to see last week then you seriously missed out.

Photo credit: Hugo Glendinning