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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“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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A Day in the Life of a Young Choreographer
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For Your Consideration: Ballet Bracket Final Round
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Costumes Backstage at the Ballet
Do you ever wonder, when watching a ballet performance, how the dancers change their costumes so quickly? Seeing the dancers emerge effortlessly in every…
Marguerite & Armand: A Photo Gallery
Here are some wonderful images taken last month by Alice Pennefather of Tamara Rojo & Sergei Polunin’s guest performances with the Royal Ballet in…
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…
New in the Bag
“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…
A Day in the Life of a Young Choreographer
Myles Thatcher, the young choreographer who in 2014 won a mentorship under Alexei Ratmansky (through the Rolex Mentor & Protégé Arts Initiative), continues to make waves…
For Your Consideration: Ballet Bracket Final Round
We have just finished counting the votes to our Ballet Bracket Round 2, including those on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, and we’re ready for the epic…