‘Look at the camera as if it’s your enemy’: Shobana Jeyasingh’s desert dance among Hollywood ghosts
The choreographer describes her challenging film shoot in the Spanish desert, where dancers are pitted against scorpions, fierce winds and punishing sun
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The importance of freeing Earnest – without bursting Oscar Wilde’s ‘delicate bubble of fancy’
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‘One thing goes wrong and that’s it’: how Janet Jackson’s career was wrecked in a split second
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Pictures & video
Face value: the masterly theatrical masks of Kitazawa Hideta
Behind the scenes with The Lion King in London at 25
Our photographer is given backstage access at The Lion King in the lead up to the 25th anniversary of the London production at the Lyceum Theatre. Since 19 October 1999 the musical has been seen by more than 19 million theatregoers
In the workshop with the Royal Academy of Music’s luthiers
The academy’s luthiers are responsible for conserving and maintaining the academy collections of bows and stringed instruments
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Jasmin Vardimon toasts 25 years of dance with Now
Michaela Mabinty DePrince: a life in pictures
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'It was really sad': Raygun speaks about reaction to Paris 2024 breakdancing performance
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