by Linda on September 24, 2009
As the season kicks off Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB), one of the UK’s top three ballet companies, celebrates its 20th anniversary as a Birmingham resident. Over the years it has evolved from being the Royal Ballet‘s “touring arm” into shaping its own style: a mix of core repertoire alongside new original full-length narrative ballets, showing a [...]
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Alexander Campbell,
Ambra Vallo,
Anthony Dowell,
Antoinette Sibley,
Ashton,
Beauty and the Beast,
Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre,
BRB,
César Morales,
Chi Cao,
Cyrano,
Darcey Bussell,
David Bintley,
Elisha Willis,
Elmhurst School of Dance,
Joseph Caley,
Leanne Benjamin,
Lilian Baylis,
Lynn Seymour,
Miyako Yoshida,
Nadia Nerina,
Nao Sakuma,
Natasha Oughtred,
Ninette de Valois,
Old Vic,
Sadler's Wells Ballet,
Sadler's Wells Theatre,
Sir Peter Wright,
Sylvia,
Two Pigeons,
Vic-Wells Ballet
by Emilia on August 28, 2009
The Mariinsky visit to London a few weeks ago and in particular the fact that they brought mime-less Soviet adaptations of ballet classics with them, generated much discussion among Covent Garden audiences about the importance of mime in ballet. When Konstantin Sergeyev revisited works such as Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and Le Corsaire in [...]
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ABT,
Alina Cojocaru,
Angel Corella,
Anthony Dowell,
Antoinette Sibley,
Aurora,
Ballet Newbie,
Berthe,
Bolshoi,
Bournonville,
Carabosse,
Character Artists,
Christopher Saunders,
Deirdre Chapman,
Federico Bonelli,
Genesia Rosato,
Gillian Murphy,
Gillian Revie,
Giselle,
Johan Kobborg,
King Florestan,
La Sylphide,
Lauren Cuthberson,
Lilac Fairy,
Ludovic Ondiviela,
Madge,
Marianela Nuñez,
Mariinsky,
Mime,
Monica Mason,
Odette,
Pennsylvania Ballet,
Prince Desiré,
Prince Siegfried,
Royal Ballet,
Rupert Pennefather,
Sir Peter Wright,
Swan Lake,
The Sleeping Beauty,
Wilis
