From Clara to Sugar Plum: Alice Pennefather was at the Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker general rehearsal this year to photograph new principals Francesca Hayward and Alexander Campbell in their debuts as Sugar Plum Fairy and her Prince Cavalier. Also featured here are the lovely Clara of Anna Rose O’Sullivan and the elegant Hans-Peter (Nutcracker Prince) of James Hay:
The current revival of Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon concludes tonight at the Royal Opera House, with Lauren Cuthbertson and Reece Clarke, a new pairing we are very much…
“If all ballets are like this, I’ll come every night”. That is what my ballet newbie friend commented after watching William Forsythe’s Playlist (Track 1, 2), and I bet…
This year’s ROH spring season featured some sleek mixed bills. The first one celebrated the centenary of composer Leonard Bernstein with Christopher Wheeldon’s new Corybantic…
The National Ballet of Canada is currently touring San Francisco with John Neumeier’s Nijinsky, a two-act ballet about the Ballets Russes icon who has long been a…
For the past few weeks, we have been counting down to English National Ballet’s Voices of America, a new mixed bill that will feature…
While full length pieces such as Mayerling, Manon, Anastasia and Romeo and Juliet invite reflection on MacMillan’s recurring theme of the Outsider, a mixed…
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