Dance blogDanceAnimation dance: hip-hop’s living cartoon marvelsAnimation dance – its swooping waves, irrepressible tics and melodramatic freezes inspired by blockbuster cartoons – is the latest in hip-hop’s neverending conveyor belt of new movesMaybe once or twice a decade a new style or practice is identified within contemporary dance – postmodern dance, release technique, dance theatre, conceptual dance. But it’s a slow process compared to the vivid reinvention and renaming that goes on in hip-hop dance.

CatholicismExhumed body of Padre Pio goes on display· Italian saint revered for cures and stigmata · A million worshippers expected to view corpseSome 15,000 worshippers gathered yesterday at the shrine of the Roman Catholic saint and mystic Padre Pio, as his exhumed body went on display for the first time since his death almost 40 years ago. More than a million people are expected to file past a transparent casket holding his restored corpse between now and September 2009.

Carlton in The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air dad dancing in a dadcore outfit. Photograph: NBC via Getty ImagesCarlton in The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air dad dancing in a dadcore outfit. Photograph: NBC via Getty ImagesThe Fashion autumn/winter 2016FashionIs dadcore a fashion trend to outlast them all?Practical, comfortable, confident: dadcore is a fashion inspiration rather than a style joke Dadcore is inspired by the wardrobe of the man who gave up on fashion when he became a father.

Spain This article is more than 5 years oldSpain plans to ban alternative medicine in health centresThis article is more than 5 years oldGovernment aims to avoid ‘harmful effects’ caused by acupuncture and homeopathy The Spanish government has announced plans to eradicate alternative medicine such as acupuncture or homeopathy from health centres. The proposal, unveiled by the science and health ministers, aims to avoid the “potential harmful effects” of the practices when they are used as an alternative or a complement to treatment that is itself based on “proof and scientific rigour”, the government said in a statement.

Antonio BanderasReviewWith this bizarre, elegant tale of a surgeon replacing his lover's skin, Pedro Almodóvar cooks up an exotic brew that no one else could ever makeSexuality and the prison house of the self are the themes of Pedro Almodóvar's fantastically twisted new film, a luxury pulp fiction that breathes the atmosphere of the sick-room. Antonio Banderas stars as Ledgard, a wealthy and brilliant plastic surgeon who in his palatial home, tastefully furnished and equipped with its own private operating theatre, is secretly experimenting on the beautiful and submissive young Vera (Elena Anaya), whose entire skin covering he is replacing with an eerily smooth artificial substance, transgenically derived from pig hide.