by Linda on March 29, 2010
As the Royal Ballet’s founder choreographer, Sir Frederick Ashton is to them what Bournonville represents to the Royal Danish Ballet. He nurtured Ninette de Valois‘s young company and gave it an identity through pieces created to help develop its dancers. Ashton’s creations for the Royal Ballet shaped the English style of ballet, combining classical purity [...]
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A Month in the Country,
A Tragedy of Fashion,
A Wedding Bouquet,
ABT,
Alastair Macaulay,
Alicia Markova,
Anna Pavlova,
Apparitions,
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Balanchine,
Ballet Rambert,
Birthday Offering,
BRB,
Bronislava Nijinska,
Capriol Suite,
Cecchetti,
Cinderella,
David Vaughan,
English Style,
Enigma Variations,
Façade,
Fred Step,
Ida Rubinstein,
Illuminations,
La Fille Mal Gardée,
Léonide Massine,
Le Baiser de la Fée,
Les Rendezvous,
Lydia Lopokova,
Margot Fonteyn,
Marguerite and Armand,
Marie Rambert,
Michael Somes,
Monotones,
Ninette de Valois,
Nocturne,
Nursery Suite,
Rhapsody,
Robert Helpmann,
Rudolf Nureyev,
Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet,
Scénes de Ballet,
Sylvia,
Symphonic Variations,
Tales of Beatrix Potter,
Tamara Karsavina,
The Ballet Club,
The Camargo Society,
The Dream,
The Royal Ballet,
The Two Pigeons,
Ugly Sisters,
Vic-Wells Ballet
by Emilia on November 24, 2009
Is this ballet for you? Go if: you want to treat your kids, godchildren, nieces and nephews or even perhaps the kid in you. Skip if: Bah humbug! Dream Cast Sugar Plum Fairy: any ballerina who can do proper gargouillades Background The Nutcracker is a major example of a balletic twist of fate. The very [...]
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Alexandre Dumas,
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Bill Cooper,
Birmingham Royal Ballet,
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Celesta,
Clara,
Drosselmeyer,
E.T.A Hoffmann,
Elizabeth Harrod,
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann,
full-length,
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Ivan Vsevolozhsky,
Jamie Bond,
Johan Persson,
Lev Ivanov,
Light & Fluffy,
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Marius Petipa,
Mark Morris,
Matthew Bourne,
Nicholas Sergeyev,
Nureyev,
NYCB,
POB,
Prince Koklush,
Roberta Marquez,
Royal Ballet,
Rudolf Nureyev,
San Francisco Ballet,
Sir Peter Wright,
Sugar Plum Fairy,
Tchaikovsky,
The Nutcracker,
Valeri Hristov,
Vic-Wells Ballet
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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Beauty and the Beast,
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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
