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Sep 11, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · by Helen HawkinsFriday, 11 September 2026

    San Francisco Ballet: Mere Mortals, Sadler’s Wells review - bravura dancing but an opaque narrative (opens the original)

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    We’re rebuilding theartsdesk to secure it as a bastion of real culture writing in the face of algorithmic recommendations and AI slop. Your participation is absolutely vital to this - subscribe today and be part of this movement. Tamara Rojo was a staunch supporter of women choreographers when she ran English National Ballet, so it’s no surprise that her inaugural season as San Francisco Ballet’s director in 2024 featured a commission by a woman, Aszure Barton. Rojo and her fine dancers have now

  2. Article · Jul 31, 2026 · by Helen HawkinsFriday, 31 July 2026

    Marianela: Timeless, Royal Ballet review - a generous helping of bonbons (opens the original)

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    We’re rebuilding theartsdesk to secure it as a bastion of real culture writing in the face of algorithmic recommendations and AI slop. Your participation is absolutely vital to this - subscribe today and be part of this movement. It’s a sobering thought that had Marianela Nuñez joined the Paris Opéra Ballet at 16 instead of the Royal Ballet, she would have been compulsorily retired by now, thanks to the French company’s pension policy. At 44, the Argentinian is proving she is indeed ageless, or

  3. Article · Jul 24, 2026 · by Helen HawkinsFriday, 24 July 2026

    A Useful Ghost review - impish black comedy with a serious sting (opens the original)

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    We’re rebuilding theartsdesk to secure it as a bastion of real culture writing in the face of algorithmic recommendations and AI slop. Your participation is absolutely vital to this - subscribe today and be part of this movement. Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s film was a surprise hit at Cannes last year, winning the Critics’ Week Grand Prize. It’s a ghost story that wears its genre trappings lightly, because it isn’t a regular ghost story at all. None of the usual shock tactics are deployed; inste

  4. Article · Jul 10, 2026 · by Helen HawkinsFriday, 10 July 2026

    Rosebush Pruning review - lurid journey into the dark heart of family dysfunction (opens the original)

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    We’re rebuilding theartsdesk to secure it as a bastion of real culture writing in the face of algorithmic recommendations and AI slop. Your participation is absolutely vital to this - subscribe today and be part of this movement. The regular scriptwriter for Yorgos Lanthimos’s films, Efthimis Filippou, has worked with another director, Karim Aïnouz, on Rosebush Pruning. It’s a film that bills itself as “inspired by” Marco Bellocchio’s 1965 satire, Fists in the Pocket, but deals in the same kind

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