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.

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…

Ballet Around the World, Behind Ballet, Social Media February 25, 2016

Five Fab dance Instagrammers

By Linda

If you are active on social media, then you already know that ballet on Instagram has become HUUUUGE. Dancers, dance students, photographers, creatives, audience…