Linda

Her favourite ballets feel like good books – one can see them 1,000 times and they always feel fresh. Linda loves Giselle, all full-length MacMillan plus Song of the Earth, Robbins’s Dances at a Gathering, Balanchine’s Serenade and Agon, Ashton’s Scènes de Ballet and Symphonic Variations.

Ivan Vasiliev and Tamara Rojo in Le Jeune homme et la mort

Review February 5, 2018

5 things we love from ENB’s Le Jeune Homme & La Sylphide

By Linda

English National Ballet has just finished its winter season at the London Coliseum. In this programme, audiences had the opportunity to revisit Roland Petit’s 1946 masterpiece Le…

AMORE featuring Svetlana Zakharova (second from left) in Strokes of the Tail Photo: © Jack Devant

Dancers, Review December 12, 2017

Svetlana Zakharova in Amore

By Linda

Last month, I attended the London premiere of Svetlana Zakharova’s solo project, Amore, which debuted at the Bolshoi in May 2016. I was pleasantly surprised to…

Francesca Hayward and Matthew Ball in The Sun is God

Ballet & Culture, Dancers, Interviews November 19, 2017

Ballet Landscapes: An Interview with Alice Pennefather and Charles Haswell

By Linda

For those who have followed the work of dance photographer Alice Pennefather for a while, her interest in filming dance will come as no surprise. With…

Defile, The Royal Ballet School ;at The Royal Opera House, London, UK ;7 July 2017 ;Credit : Johan Persson /

Dancers, Review August 9, 2017

Up and coming: RBS Summer Performance

By Linda

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…