Best of 2020: Dance
by Jenny GilbertThursday, 31 December 2020
Beach ready: Some of the 38 dancers from 14 African countries rehearsing Pina Bausch's Rite of Spring, on the coast of Senegal in March. The world tour was cancelled just days before the premierephoto: Florian Heinzen-Ziob
Hard as it is to recall how it felt to sit elbow to elbow in a red plush seat, plenty of us did that during the first 10 weeks of 2020, with no heed at all to who might be breathing over us. I have since wondered what proportion of the dance sector had any inkling of the wrecking ball that was about to hit. None, to judge by the many weeks it took for dance companies and theatres to reinvent themselves online, and to start dredging their archives for decently recorded material.