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
Yorke Dance Project: a Photo Gallery
Yorke Dance Project is a contemporary ballet company of 8 dancers under the artistic direction of Yolande Yorke-Edgell, and patronage of choreographer Richard Alston. Now in its 5th season,…
BRB’s The Tempest: an interview with Rae Smith
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…
A Summer of Dance to Remember
Warm summer evenings are starting to come to an end in London (if only we could have temperatures in the twenties all year round…)….
Bolshoi Galleries: Flames of Paris and Taming of the Shrew
Alice Pennefather recently attended some of the Bolshoi photocalls in London, snapping both Ratmansky’s Flames of Paris and Maillot’s Taming of the Shrew for…