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…

January 22, 2016

Postcards from Russia: Mariinsky’s Xander Parish

By Isabella Zijp

In this new series of blogs, Isabella Zijp spotlights young dancers and companies that are changing the Russian ballet establishment. British dancer Xander Parish has…

April 15, 2010

The Costumes of Elite Syncopations

By Linda

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…

August 3, 2009

The Mariinsky Ballet

By Linda

As the Mariinsky comes to the rescue of ballet-starved Londoners this week, we kick-off our series of features about ballet companies around the world,…