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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Five Ballet movies you should not miss
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Dancing days are here again: BRB in Elite Syncopations
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Up and coming: RBS Summer Performance
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Summer of #Ratmanskyness: Whipped Cream & Tchaikovsky Spectacular
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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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Highlights
In Costume Wonderland
We’ve written before about the key role stage design and costumes play in giving dance works an extra dimension. Costumes help set the tone,…
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…
Edward Watson & the Way into MacMillan
Kenneth MacMillan, one of the leading choreographers of the twentieth century, is credited with pushing the boundaries of classical ballet and challenging audiences to…
New in the Bag
I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
Just over a year ago I was sitting at the Alina Cojocaru gala at the QEH with my jaw wide open: there were four…
Long Tall Sally
The Balanchine method is not a syllabus for training per se, but the term is generally applied to describe the way of teaching dancers…
Ondine
Is this ballet for you? Go if: You are an Ashton fan. You have a keen eye for demanding technique, quick steps and plenty…
Slow Night, so Long
One of the attractions of a triple bill vs. a full-length ballet is the opportunity to discover a mix of different choreographers and dance…