Or, the circus comes to town. And feeds you up nice. So, you’re stuck in that annual festive pickle: your youthful instinct to duly celebrate the season is alive and kicking but, when you weigh up your options, it’s much the same repertoire of entertainment as last year. A migraine-inducing panto, perhaps? Those wacky Cirque du Soleil guys? An urban ice-rink, where you are bound to sustain that crippling wrist fracture you have successfully......

This is what Dance Umbrella's about: top quality, contemporary dance in unexpected places. It's such a shame Riverside hadn't sold out Studio 2 last night. We thought this UK premiere would be good and we were so right. It doesn't have a story. It doesn't really mean anything - choreographer, Ohad Naharin apparently just like the sound of the Hebrew word Mamootot (mammoth) - but the hour long piece for 9 dancers, all clad......

Museum of London's latest's wheeze is to bring magic and mystery to their Late in the form of one Pete Hathway who will be performing street magic and cunning trickery to astound you a week today, whilst mystical tours of the galleries will be pointing out the more sinister objects, like witch balls and curses in Roman gall. Ew. To get the atmosphere just right, they need a suitable soundtrack and are stumped. We......

61. Voodoo? There are many misconceptions of so-called 'witchcraft', which is in fact an ancient, harmless worship of nature – but pick up any book previous to the 1990s and such a word will nearly always be connected to bloody tales of black witchery, grim sorcery and diabolical summoning. The press have long misunderstood white and black magic, choosing to mingle instead of separate the two, so such confusion remains today. Many 'satanic panics'......