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L’Après-midi d’un Faune & What Wild Ecstasy: A Photo Gallery

Rambert Dance Company's spring program at Sadler's Wells

Artifact: A Photo Gallery

Forsythe's masterpiece in images by Alice Pennefather

Artifact

All you need to know about Forsythe's masterpiece

Polyphonia / Sweet Violets / Carbon Life: A Photo Gallery

The Royal Ballet's latest triple bill in images by Alice Pennefather

L’Après-midi d’un Faune & What Wild Ecstasy: A Photo Gallery

May 24, 2012

Photographer Alice Pennefather attended the Rambert’s general rehearsal last week and snapped the company in Nijinsky’s L’Après-midi d’un Faune and Mark Baldwin’s ferosh new work What Wild Ecstasy, both presented as part of the spring season at Sadler’s Wells: (Click on thumbnails to enlarge & see as slideshow) All Photos: © Alice Pennefather About Alice [...]

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Rambert Dance Company: L’Après-midi d’un Faune & What Wild Ecstasy

May 19, 2012

In time for the company’s last performances at Sadler’s Wells tonight, we have below a selection of images taken at the general rehearsal by Alice Pennefather. We also chatted to Mark Baldwin, who is celebrating 10 years as Rambert’s Artistic Director. Mark told us about the diversity of styles being presented in this current bill, [...]

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30 Years on Stage – A Festival of Nina Ananiashvili

May 15, 2012

We are delighted to welcome the wonderful Graham Watts – or @GWDanceWriter as he is known on Twitter – as this week’s guest blogger. Graham chronicles below a very special weekend among ballet royalty in Tbilisi, Georgia. Reflections on a weekend in Tbilisi, Georgia: March 2012 Having missed the midnight plane to Georgia, my long [...]

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Béjart’s Kabuki: A Preview

May 10, 2012

Honor and revenge in the samurai code culminating in a stunning mass suicide: in the aftermath of that bloody night in 1703, the facts of the actual 47 ronin incident became clouded by creative conjecture. Bunraku, Kabuki, and Noh theatre offered their own versions, collectively called the Chushingura. This collection of fictional interpretations leading up [...]

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La Fille Mal Gardée: A Photo Gallery

May 5, 2012

Alice Pennefather has shared with us these lovely candy-coloured images of the general rehearsal cast at the Royal Ballet’s current revival of La Fille Mal Gardée, with Laura Morera and Ricardo Cervera in the leading roles. A date for your diaries: Ashton’s shiny-happy-people ballet is to be live streamed to cinemas worldwide on 16 May. [...]

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