In 2012, Tim Persent, originally from South Africa, will have been dancing in the Netherlands for a quarter of a century. The Holland Dance Festival is devoting a whole evening to this exceptional dancer, who has become a real icon of Dutch dance, with his inspiring and...

The choreographer Meryl Tankard never dared work with Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps before, as the piece is so closely associated with the career of her own teacher, Pina Bausch. But when she saw the eccentric movements of Paul White –one of the best dancers in...