Dance

Carlos Acosta’s love letter to Cuba

Acosta Danza was born at a time of hope for the choreographer’s homeland. Ten years on, it has become a symbol of vitality and endurance

London City Ballet’s Momentum is a multi-course feast for the eyes

This varied evening of dance is like being given a tasting menu and told to enjoy

We Should Have Never Walked on the Moon is long but exhilarating

This three-hour Southbank Centre takeover by French dance collective (La)Horde is not subtle but it is thrilling

When dance becomes theatre

A spate of shows at Edinburgh blur the boundaries between forms

Breaking Bach is an astonishing, life-enhancing experience

This hip-hop homage to the classical composer is an assertion of the value of embedding arts in the curriculum. Plus: A bold ballet about Mary Queen of Scots

Bullyache’s dark depiction of the shadowy global elite

Dancers play power games – ceremonies of dominance and humiliation – in this profoundly perturbing performance inspired by the 2008 crash

The legacy of Twyla Tharp

At the Venice Dance Biennale, a double bill of the veteran choreographer’s work reveals her as a true pioneer

The festival in the forest

How the woodland centre Jacob’s Pillow became a crucible for modern dance – and an artistic retreat from Trump’s America

Christopher Isherwood’s second life on stage

Few would have predicted his works would have persisted into the 21st century. But a new dance adaptation of his masterpiece A Single Man captures the author’s essential humanity

Quadrophenia: a Mod Ballet is far too polite

This polished, subdued production has none of the film’s rebellious bite and energy

Matthew Bourne after hours

The choreographer, with his cast of vivid dancers, weaves a sensual story of lonely figures haunting a local pub in one of his best ever works

Review: American Ballet Theatre Studio Company sets the barre high

New York-based young dancers kick off the Royal Ballet’s festival of rising talent with a programme showcasing their dazzling flair and versatility

Dance reviews: Natural Behaviour and Detention

From smoking seagulls to a Trump-like panto horse, Thick & Tight’s hymns to inclusiveness are shot through with wit. Elsewhere, love triumphs over Section 28

A fine Ballet BC double bill

Mysterious shadows inhabit Crystal Pite’s questing meditation on creation, while Johan Inger sparks laughter and tears

Too much, too young for Carlos Acosta’s ballet stars of the future

The nuanced moods and movements of the Russian ballet masters stretch Carlos Acosta’s junior company, but the Matsena brothers speak with their feet

A ‘radically odd’ version of Daphnis and Chloé