by Emilia & Linda on October 24, 2011
Via Press Release: In 2012, Dance GB sees English National Ballet, National Dance Company Wales and Scottish Ballet celebrating the Olympics in a unique creative collaboration. Echoing the British Olympic team, Team GB, Dance GB takes the Olympic ideals of “faster, higher, stronger” and translates them into an inspirational production performed in Glasgow, Cardiff and [...]
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And the Earth Shall Bear Again,
Big Dance 2012,
Christopher Bruce,
Elena Glurdjidze,
ENB,
Erina Takahashi,
Esteban Berlanga,
Fernanda Oliviera,
Itzik Galili,
Ksenia Ovsyanick,
Lauretta Summerscales,
London Olympics 2012,
Martin Lawrance,
National Dance Company Wales,
Nic Sandiland,
Rambert,
Richard Alston,
Scottish Ballet,
Team GB,
The Place,
Vadim Muntagirov
by Emilia on May 17, 2011
Our picks from the Autumn 2011 season at Sadler’s Wells which goes on sale Monday 23 May, taken from the press release issued earlier today (for full details click here): Grupo Corpo Imã & Onqotô Tuesday 13 – Friday 16 September Founded in 1975, Brazilian contemporary dance company Grupo Corpo and choreographer Rodrigo Pederneiras have [...]
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...Como el musguito en la piedra,
Akram Khan Company,
Água,
Édouard Lock,
Bamboo Blues,
BRB,
Checkmate,
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan,
Der Fensterputzer,
DESH,
Diana Vishneva,
Emanuel Gat Dance,
Forsythe,
Grupo Corpo,
Javier de Frutos,
Jiří Kylián,
John Cranko,
Jorma Elo,
Kenneth MacMillan,
La Fille Mal Gardée,
La La La Human Steps,
Mark Baldwin,
Mark Wallinger,
Mark-Anthony Turnage,
Matthew Bourne,
Merce Cunningham,
Nefés,
never to be told,
Ninette de Valois,
Nur Du,
Nutcracker,
Out of Asia Season,
Palermo,
Pina Bausch,
Pina Bausch World Cities 2012,
Pineapple Doll,
RainForest,
Rambert Dance Company,
Random Dance,
Sadler's Wells,
Sadler's Wells' Composers Series,
Scottish Ballet,
Seven for a secret,
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui,
Sir Frederick Ashton,
Song of the Earth,
Sylvie Guillem,
Symphonic Variations,
Tanztheater Wuppertal,
Ten Chi,
TeZukA,
Viktor,
Wayne McGregor,
Wiesenland,
Yumiko Takeshima
Is this ballet for you? Go if: Red Hot Chili Carmen Skip if: Faux French or Pastiche Spanish are not your thing Dream Cast For Carmen Tamara Rojo because she is Spanish and fiery, plus her surname matches Carmen’s legendary red dress. Background Carmen goes back to 1845 when Prosper Mérimée‘s torrid novella used to [...]
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1-act,
Alberto Alonso,
Ana Laguna,
Ballet Nacional de Cuba,
Bennet Gartside,
Bizet,
Bolshoi,
Bullfighter,
Carmen,
Carmen Suite,
Cullberg Ballet,
Danila Korsuntsev,
Davide Bombana,
Dee Conway,
Don José,
Dramatic & Intense,
Escamillo,
Evgeny Ivanchenko,
Fate,
Irma Nioradze,
John Cranko,
Lauren Cuthbertson,
Mariinsky,
Mats Ek,
Maya Plisteskaya,
Micaela,
Mikhail Baryshnikov,
Natasha Razina,
National Ballet of Canada,
NBC,
Prosper Merimée,
Renée Zizi Jeanmaire,
Robert Alston,
Rodion Shchedrin,
Roland Petit,
Scottish Ballet,
Tamara Rojo,
Ulyana Lopatkina,
Yekaterina Kondaurova
by Emilia on April 13, 2010
Is this ballet for you? Go if: You love the thought of a mashup between The Sleeping Beauty (a classical, grand ballet) and a funny work like La Fille Mal Gardée. Skip if: Certain people find Prokofiev’s haunting score a tad too moody. And you may want to skip the Ashton version if Panto interspersed [...]
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Alina Cojocaru,
Ashley Page,
Ashton,
Ballet,
Ben Stevenson,
Bolshoi,
BRB,
Cecchetti,
Charles Perrault,
Christine Haworth,
Cinderella,
full-length,
Galina Ulanova,
Gary Avis,
Hopelessly Romantic,
Ivan Putrov,
James Kudelka,
Jean-Denis Malclès,
Johan Kobborg,
Judith Mackrell,
Konstantin Sergeyev,
Lev Ivanov,
Light & Fluffy,
Mariinsky,
Michael Corder,
Michael Somes,
Moira Shearer,
National Ballet,
NBC,
Nikolai Volkov,
Nureyev,
Olga Lepeshinskaya,
Pamela May,
Petipa,
Pierina Legnani,
Prokofiev,
Ratmansky,
Robert Helpmann,
Roberta Marquez,
Rotislav Zakharov,
Sarah Lamb,
Scottish Ballet,
Stepsisters,
Tamara Rojo,
Toer van Schayk,
Wayne Sleep,
Wendy Ellis Somes,
Yuri Possokhov
