Boys Don’t Dance review – jump back to the 80s to celebrate the power of pop A sunny mashup of music accompanies choreographer Marc Brew’s feelgood coming-of-age story The Guardian - UK · Aug 14
A drunk driver hit our car, my three friends died, and I began a fight for my life – and my ballet career At 20, Marc Brew was the sole survivor of a terrible crash that killed his fellow dancers. Paralysed from the chest down, he had to learn to live in a new, uncharted reality The Guardian - UK · Sep 24, 2025
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: ‘Artists are liars who just make things up – but we reveal a lot’ The internationally feted choreographer has worked with pop megastars, a sculptor and the monks of the Shaolin Temple. Now he is tackling the cultural divisions and colonial legacy of his homeland The Guardian - UK · Sep 16, 2025
Dance: Sarah Crompton’s five best shows of 2024 A life-changing crash revisited, a rapturous duet for Matthew Ball and Alina Cojocaru and an everyday story of medieval fantasy The Guardian - UK · Dec 23, 2024
an Accident/a life; Northern Ballet: Romeo & Juliet review – a triumph of the spirit Marc Brew’s recreation of the crash that left him paraplegic is an exhilarating riposte to fate. And a slightly dated classic still looks the part The Guardian - UK · Jun 2, 2024
Marc Brew and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: An Accident/A Life review – brutal and tender Brew revisits the car crash at the beginning of his ballet career that killed his three companions and left him paraplegic The Guardian - UK · May 26, 2024