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The Royal Ballet 2010/11 Season Roundup

by Linda on June 28, 2011

In one of their riskiest and most exciting ventures, The Royal Ballet wrapped up for summer with MacMillan’s blockbuster Romeo & Juliet staged for an audience of 40,000 (split over 4 performances). The so-hashtagged #RomeO2 event was the surprise hit in a season more memorable for the hasty return of works like Ashton’s Cinderella (4 [...]

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Tell Me What You See

by Linda on September 5, 2010

The task of reporting the news has, for better or for worse, spread far beyond standard media. From Michael Jackson’s death to yesterday’s headlines, sharing the news is now the work of an online global community. Phones, computers and gadgets are propagating information in real time and the internet is overloaded with individual opinions on [...]

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After Midnight

by Linda on April 26, 2010

The past few weeks have felt like Ashton fest at The Royal Ballet. With two of his most loved full-length ballets in repertoire, Cinderella and La Fille Mal Gardée (which just ended its run), we could immerse ourselves in his lovely choreography. Ashton’s tricky combo of fast footwork and supple upper body may be testing [...]

Tagged as: Alina Cojocaru, Alistair Marriott, Ashton, Cinderella, Clement Crisp, full-length, Jonathan Howells, Light & Fluffy, Prokofiev, Review, Royal Ballet, Sergei Polunin, Yuhui Choe

Kool Thing

by Emilia on December 30, 2009

As we prepare to send off 2009 and embrace a new decade, we look back into what was hot, fun & fab around the ballet blogosphere to pick our favorite things this year. Feel free to share yours too. Favorite Blog Posts Haglund Heel’s “ABT needs a Mayerling” campaign The coolest ballet campaign of the [...]

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Oh! You Pretty Things

by Linda on December 15, 2009

In their final programme of the year The Royal Ballet celebrates Sir Frederick Ashton, the founder choreographer who gave this company a wonderful classical repertory and British ballet a defining style. Initially I thought of this double bill as a case of odd pairing since, on one corner, appealing to the Ashton addicts and older [...]

Tagged as: Ashton, Bennet Gartside, Blue Boy, Cindy Jourdain, Clement Crisp, Gary Avis, Hunca Munca, Jonathan Howells, Kenta Kura, Laura McCulloch, Laura Morera, Les Patineurs, Mr. Jeremy Fisher, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, Paul Kay, Pig-Wig, Pigling Bland, Rupert Pennefather, Sarah Lamb, Squirrel Nutkin, Steven McRae, Tales of Beatrix Potter, Tom Thumb, Yuhui Choe

Kenneth MacMillan Symposium

by Linda on November 18, 2009

Earlier this month we attended the Kenneth MacMillan Choreographic Imagination and Psychological Insight Symposium at Imperial College London. Celebrating the choreographer who would have been 80 this year, this full day event was held in association with The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) and the Institute of Psychoanalysis and drew on psychoanalysts, scholars and dancers [...]

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