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Dancers of The Royal Ballet – A Photographic Exhibition – FREE Opens 25 January

Now Is All There Is – Bodies in Motion, is an exhibition of 34 stylized images of Royal Ballet dancers taken by photographer Rick Guest.

Poster image for Midnight Express from midnightexpresstheballet.com.© Peter Schaufuss Ballet.

Schaufuss’s Midnight Express with Sergei Polunin at London Coliseum 9th-14th April

All Aboard! Peter Schaufuss’s Midnight Express Rolls into the London Coliseum 9th-14th April Olivier and Evening Standard award winning dancer, director and choreographer Peter Schaufuss today announces the production’s UK debut. The dance world’s…

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Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Aladdin Premiere in February 2013 – Full Deatils

Birmingham Hippodrome performance dates: Friday 15 – Saturday 23 February 2013 (includes a Sunday performance on 17 February at 1pm and a 6.30pm performance on Friday 22 February). Then Tours…

Gillian Murphy and Qi Huan in Giselle.© Evan Li. (Click image for larger version)

Royal New Zealand Ballet – Rave reviews for ‘Giselle’ world premiere, ahead of tour

Here’s what the critics have been saying about the production…

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2012 National Dance Awards – Announcement of Nominations

The Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle announced the nominations for the 13th National Dance Awards at a reception held at The Place on 9th November 2012. The winners will be announced 28th January 2013.

Liam Scarlett, along with Melissa Hamilton and Sergei Polunin, at the 2009 National Dance Awards - where they were all nominated. © John Ross and taken from Graham Watts report of the Awards for Balletco. Click image for larger version, or one that fills the browser window.

Liam Scarlett appointed first ever Royal Ballet Artist in Residence

Kevin O’Hare, Director of The Royal Ballet, announced today that First Artist Liam Scarlett is appointed the first ever Artist in Residence of The Royal Ballet, a position that will allow him to focus solely on his choreographic work.

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Dance Camera West, Dance Media Film Festival, Call for Submissions

Dance Camera West is excited to celebrate the 12th Annual DCW Dance Media Film Festival with “Get Wet,” a celebration of screen dance, live dance, and water. Submit your media now…

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RAD ‘Celebrating Dance 2012’ – Fundraising for the Frank Freeman Scholarship Fund

Dance students can participate in ‘Celebrating Dance 2012’ – a day of dance to be held at the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) on Sunday 11 November to fundraise for the Frank Freeman Scholarship fund.

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Royal Opera House Live Cinema Season 2012/13 – 9 Productions, 32 Countries, Over 900 Cinemas

Opens on 23rd October with Swan Lake, followed by Nutcracker and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – all live. For completeness also include details of the 6 Operas being transmitted.

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Karen Napier Announced As Chief Executive of English National Ballet

English National Ballet today announced the appointment of Karen Napier as Chief Executive, commencing 1 February, 2013. Karen is currently Associate Dean, Advancement, at London Business School.

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Place Prize for Dance 2012/13 – Finalists Announced

And the four Finalists are: h2dance (Hannah Gillgren and Heidi Rustgaard), Riccardo Buscarini, Rick Nodine, Eva Recacha. Congrats to all, more details in the press release.

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Bringing Sport And Dance Together – BRB Dancer Choreographs Routine For Champion Gymnast

One of Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Principal dancers, Matthew Lawrence, is currently just as busy in a gymnastics hall as he is on the stage as he works on his latest exciting creation – a routine for the Welsh and five times British champion gymnast Frankie Jones…

Open Call for Choreographers and Composers poster graphic. © DanceEast.

Dance East, National Centre for Choreography – Open call for choreographic LAB

For its second Choreographic LAB, DanceEast is seeking four choreographers and four composers with a minimum of three years experience in making work in a range of genres. This is an intensive two week residential LAB…

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The Place Prize 2012/13 – Dance Commissions Announced

The 16 entrants competing for The Place Prize for dance, sponsored by Bloomberg, have been awarded a total commission fund of £100,000.

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English National Ballet School – Samira Saidi is new Director (of Dance)

English National Ballet School is delighted to announce that it has appointed Samira Saidi as its new Director of Dance. Samira will be joining the school in August, following an illustrious career including twenty years dancing with Birmingham Royal Ballet and also tutor at Elmhurst School…

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Cathy Marston Leaving Bern Ballett

Konzert Theater Bern (previously Stadttheater Bern) announces change in artistic direction of the Dance Department – Bern Ballett. From the August 2013 there will be a new Director of Dance at Konzert Theater…

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Tamara Rojo to be the new English National Ballet Artistic Director

The news is now officially released – Tamara Rojo is to be the English National Ballet Artistic Director… the press release in all its glory…

Tamara Rojo and Fei Bo in Beijing. © CNN International / Fusion Journeys.

CNN TV: Tamara Rojo Embarks on a ‘Fusion Journey’

This exciting new CNN series ‘Fusion Journeys’ meets principal dancer at the Royal Ballet London, Tamara Rojo, and follows her on a challenging journey to learn a totally new dancing style in Beijing,…

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Sadler’s Wells to live stream Breakin’ Convention – the hip hop dance festival

Sadler’s Wells streams international hip hop dance festival Breakin’ Convention live via The Space On Bank Holiday Monday 7 May, Sadler’s Wells annual international festival of hip hop dance, Breakin’ Convention, will be…

Irek Mukhamedov joins the Schaufuss Ballet for London Performances

Mukhamedov will be playing the roles of Rothbart in Swan Lake, the Queen’s husband and Aurora’s and Carabosses’s father in Sleeping Beauty, Clara’s Father and Sugar Plum Fairy’s Cavalier in The Nutcracker, in all performances of all three ballets.

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