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.

Ballet, Choreographers January 31, 2017

McGregor’s Six Best Works for the Royal Ballet

By Linda

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…

Alina Cojocaru as Giselle and Isaac Hernández as Albrecht in Akram Khan's Giselle

Review November 24, 2016

ENB in Akram Khan’s Giselle

By Linda

If you have followed this blog for a while, then you already know that Giselle is my favourite ballet. When I first heard that…

Ballet, Behind Ballet, Interviews, What's coming September 28, 2016

BRB’s The Tempest: an interview with Rae Smith

By Linda

It was tutu love at first sight. From the moment we discovered Rae Smith’s designs for Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Prince of the Pagodas – remember…

Review April 17, 2016

“She Said” Mixed Bill at ENB

By Linda

Many articles seek to explain why there seems to be such a lack of female choreographers in the ballet world. Luke Jennings recently argued “the…