Via Press Release: Ipswich-born Royal Ballet Principal Character Artist Gary Avis is bringing dancers from the Royal Ballet and English National Ballet to his home town this September to take part in a unique charity gala event in support of The Hunger Project. After a 40-year gap, East Anglian audiences will once again have the [...]
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While details for POB, BRB, Dutch National Ballet and Hamburg Ballet‘s upcoming seasons have been out for a while, the Royal Ballet have just confirmed theirs via press conference this afternoon. AD Monica Mason’s farewell season presents a well-balanced lineup that pays homage to the company’s solid repertory and showcases the best of new British dance making talent (Wheeldon, McGregor, [...]
It was a rollercoaster of a year for us. Topics like Black Swan, Jennifer Homans’s Apollo’s Angels and #Sugarplumgate kept us on our toes and led to interesting discussions and exchanges via social media channels. From an audience perspective we were curious to explore different productions and companies, so we traveled to Copenhagen, Tokyo and [...]
To celebrate Ballet Black‘s upcoming 10th anniversary choreographer Will Tuckett has undertaken a new commission – a semi-narrative ballet inspired by the myth of Orpheus set to Stravinsky’s famous ballet score of the same name. A few weeks ago we were invited by Artistic Director Cassa Pancho to drop by the Genée Studio at Royal Academy [...]
The Royal Ballet’s 2009/2010 season is coming to a close. In the first of two final mixed bills audiences had the opportunity to see a new work by an exciting young choreographer. Bookended by Christopher Wheeldon’s ballet-meets-art-installation Electric Counterpoint and Mats Ek’s irreverent Carmen was Asphodel Meadows, Liam Scarlett’s first ballet for the ROH main [...]
Yesterday The Independent published an interesting feature on the Royal Ballet’s Liam Scarlett, a young choreographer who wants to challenge the perception of ballet as an art that is “all about tutus and glitter”. We posted this feature on Twitter and Facebook and got interesting reactions. On both channels people hastened to add that ballet [...]
