Three ballet dancers perform Symphony in C wearing white tutus
Photograph: Helen Maybanks | Balanchine’s ’Symphony in C‘
Photograph: Helen Maybanks

The best dance and ballet shows in April 2025

The biggest and best dance shows to hit London up this month

India Lawrence
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It is already April. Where does the time go? This month things are looking exciting and varied in London’s dance scene.

In the classics we’ve got Romeo & Juliet and the eternally great Balanchine at the Royal Opera House, while things are looking a bit cooler over at the Southbank Centre which welcomes music video director Holly Blakey for a double bill, including new works. 

For the youngsters, there’s Danish choreographer Mette Ingvartsen’s energetic skatepark installation at Sadler’s Wells East, and an ENB performance of Swan Lake designed specifically for kids. 

India is in charge of dance listings at Time Out. She was first shoved into a leotard and ballet shoes aged four, and has loved it ever since. Nowadays India prefers contemporary (or dancing in a sweaty club) to ballet, but still has a soft spot for the odd grand jeté every now and again. India has been reviewing dance all over London since joining Time Out in 2022. 

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Dance in March

  • Dance
  • Ballet
  • Covent Garden

Choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan and first performed in 1966, The Royal Ballet’s much-loved Romeo & Juliet returns to the Royal Opera House this March. Prokofiev’s music is familiarly stirring, the costumes are rich in earthy tones and there’s all sorts of swaggering and swashbuckling from the rival families, but it’s the intimate drama between the central couple that makes this show soar, or not. Leads pairings for this run include Fumi Kaneko and Vadim Muntagirov, Marianela Nuñez and William Bracewell, and Francesca Hayward and Cesar Corrales, alongside other ROH principals. 

Where is it? Royal Opera House

  • Dance
  • Ballet
  • Holborn

The English National Ballet School's attempting to get the kids into ballet with this production of Swan Lake geared to kids aged 3 upwards. Get the little'uns into dance, then by watching this lover’s ballet about a swan under a curse by a nasty witch.

Where is it? Peacock Theatre 

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