Infographic: MacMillan’s Saints and Sinners
With complex characters that challenge performers and audiences alike, choreographer Kenneth MacMillan continues to capture our imagination. And with a ballet season full of favourites…
Highlights
Nutcracker at English National Ballet
ENB’s Nutcracker season is drawing to a close, with the final performances scheduled for this Sunday, 4 January. Last month, we dropped by the…
The Sleeping Beauty
Is this ballet for you? Go If: You love classical ballet complete with fairy tale theme, tiaras, tutus, lavish décors and variations for almost…
Concerto
Is this ballet for you? Go If: Sweeping & romantic Pas de Deux and the Swiss precision of a great corps de ballet are…
New in the Bag
Bag of Steps: Big Jumps (Part 1)
This post is devoted to big jumps, usually the territory of male dancers, though some of them are also done by ballerinas. These tend…
I’m Bound to Pack it Up (and go away…)
Better late than never! The Royal Ballet troupe are now well into their summer tour while ballet orphans count the days until the Mariinsky…
A Fond Farewell to Alexandra
It is hard to believe that someone like Alexandra Ansanelli, one of the Royal Ballet’s youngest principal ballerinas, is retiring, given all her accomplishments…
Mayerling
Is this ballet for you? Go if: You are tired of white ballets and of seeing male dancers perennially overshadowed by the ballerina. Mayerling,…