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As a critic, I’ve rarely felt compelled to mourn publicly about an artist. Mourning goes somewhere beyond the usual sense of loss and gratitude when someone's death has been announced. But it's the only word when the departed is one of the very few individuals - or their songs or books or pictures - who get in your bloodstream, who get into your optic nerves or your inner ear, who magnify and sharpen your experience of being alive.

Sixty years on from Kenneth MacMillan's The Rite of Spring, the former dancer and choreographer recalls her role as the Chosen Maiden

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To the international world of ballet, Clement Crisp was the British critic to fear for half a century. Crisp's dance reviews for the Financial Times - "the pink 'un" - from 1970 until 2020 were legendary for their passionate fastidiousness about ballerinas and high style, their acuity about rising talents and the difficulties of creativity, and - often - their ferocity, when he saw something he thought a blight.

Liam Scarlett, brilliant young choreographer at the Royal Ballet whose career was derailed by allegations – obituary Scarlett’s darkly themed ballets made him a star sought after by the world’s leading companies, but then he was abruptly dropped as ‘toxic’ 18 April 2021 • 7:50pm Liam Scarlett instructing Miami City Ballet dancers during rehearsal of Euphotic in Florida, January 2013   Credit: Gary Coronado/Avalon Liam Scarlett, who has died suddenly aged 35, was the Royal Ballet’s acclaimed young ballet choreographer, until he was dismissed last year following allegations of ...