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…
Highlights
Costumes Backstage at the Ballet
Do you ever wonder, when watching a ballet performance, how the dancers change their costumes so quickly? Seeing the dancers emerge effortlessly in every…
Marguerite & Armand: A Photo Gallery
Here are some wonderful images taken last month by Alice Pennefather of Tamara Rojo & Sergei Polunin’s guest performances with the Royal Ballet in…
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…
New in the Bag
Bag of Steps: Ballotté
So this is the first entry of Bag of Steps. You see, we think that one doesn’t need to have been at ballet class…
Be True to Your School
Most professional dancers start their careers rather young and, depending on where they study, the programme/syllabus they follow varies substantively. Here in England, they…
Love Me Two Times
The other day I got an email from a friend inviting me to see the Royal Ballet’s current production of Giselle. He had been…
The Dark is Rising
Given the full run of Giselles, it is always very enjoyable to experience different casts and portrayals. This a challenge for the dancers; an…