In the spotlight, five recent ballet and dance book releases that will make great summer reads or that are perfect for your Amazon wishlists: Sadler’s Wells Dance House by Sarah Crompton With plenty of photos of some of Sadler’s Wells’s most successful productions from the last few years (Sylvie Guillem fans are in for a [...]
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Taken during the Royal Ballet’s current revival of La Bayadère, Alice Pennefather’s latest photo gallery shows Hikaru Kobayashi as Nikiya, Nehemiah Kish as Solor and Yuhui Choe as Gamzatti. (Click on thumbnails to enlarge & see as slideshow) All Photos: © Alice Pennefather, courtesy of ROH About Alice Pennefather: With a twin brother flying high as [...]
With Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland about to close its third successful run at the Royal Opera House, we feature below Alice Pennefather’s second gallery set dedicated to Wheeldon’s colourful ballet, including snaps of leads Beatriz Stix-Brunell and Rupert Pennefather in the studio: (Click on thumbnails to enlarge & see as slideshow) All Photos: © Alice Pennefather, [...]
We have a new guest post up on the Royal Opera House blog, with snippets of five of Alexei Ratmansky’s coolest ballets: 24 Preludes, part of the Royal Ballet’s current mixed programme that includes George Balanchine’s Apollo and Christopher Wheeldon’s Aeternum, offers audiences the opportunity to experience Alexei Ratmansky’s first work for a UK company. Much [...]
We are delighted to feature below a guest blog by ballet enthusiast and Professor of Culture & Communication Nelida Ferraz, who attended the Royal Opera House Gala in Rio de Janeiro’s Theatro Municipal last week. Last week, audiences at Rio de Janeiro’s Theatro Municipal were reassured of the city’s resurging cultural landscape in a brief 3-day [...]
Here are some wonderful images taken last month by Alice Pennefather of Tamara Rojo & Sergei Polunin’s guest performances with the Royal Ballet in Marguerite & Armand. Part of an all-Ashton bill, this was a special revival which marked Rojo’s goodbye from the Covent Garden stage. (Click on thumbnails to enlarge & see as slideshow) [...]
