McGregor’s Six Best Works for the Royal Ballet
The Royal Ballet is celebrating Wayne McGregor’s ten year anniversary as Resident Choreographer, with the 2016-2017 season featuring two all-McGregor evenings. Earlier in the…
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Five Ballet movies you should not miss
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Dancing days are here again: BRB in Elite Syncopations
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Up and coming: RBS Summer Performance
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Summer of #Ratmanskyness: Whipped Cream & Tchaikovsky Spectacular
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“8 Minutes” with Alexander Whitley
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Ashton Triple Bill: a photo gallery
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Ashton’s Sylvia in Buenos Aires
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The Royal Ballet in Jewels: a photo gallery
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Highlights
In Costume Wonderland
We’ve written before about the key role stage design and costumes play in giving dance works an extra dimension. Costumes help set the tone,…
The Costumes of Elite Syncopations
The Royal Ballet’s current revival of MacMillan’s Concerto, The Judas Tree and ragtime ballet Elite Syncopations closes tonight. We send it off with this…
Edward Watson & the Way into MacMillan
Kenneth MacMillan, one of the leading choreographers of the twentieth century, is credited with pushing the boundaries of classical ballet and challenging audiences to…
New in the Bag
Five Ballet movies you should not miss
As the new ballet season kicks into gear, we share our current favorite dance documentaries and movies, all coming soon to a screen near…
Dancing days are here again: BRB in Elite Syncopations
A host of eccentric characters flirt, dance and vie for the limelight in MacMillan’s Elite Syncopations (1974), a ballet that brings together comedic flair and Scott…
Up and coming: RBS Summer Performance
For ballet lovers in London, the Royal Ballet School’s Annual Performance is a clear highlight of the summer season. It is breathtaking to see the young…
Summer of #Ratmanskyness: Whipped Cream & Tchaikovsky Spectacular
Our dance calendar would not be the same without an annual trip to New York to check in on the latest work by ABT’s…
“8 Minutes” with Alexander Whitley
For long I have been fascinated by the work of young choreographer Alexander Whitley, and especially his explorations of concepts from science and physics…
Ashton Triple Bill: a photo gallery
Undoubtedly the best mixed programme of this ROH season, the Royal Ballet’s latest Ashton bill includes some of our favorite ballets by the choreographer: The Dream,…
Ashton’s Sylvia in Buenos Aires
During the Easter holidays, I managed to drop by the wonderful city of Buenos Aires where the local company, Teatro Colon’s Ballet Estable had…
The Royal Ballet in Jewels: a photo gallery
Of Balanchine’s three Jewels, we find Emeralds the most subtly stylish: those floating bourrées, the Giselle-like balances, the chic intricate patterns. True, it doesn’t seem…