Birmingham Royal Ballet – Aladdin – London
Don’t expect big emotional highs and lows or deeply defined characters, just a clear narration of a story that everyone knows. So if we judge it on these terms how does it do?
Birmingham Royal Ballet – Aladdin – Birmingham
All up, I came out entertained and it’s a piece that will endure. And if all the company can conqueror Act 1 there will be smiling families all the way, I think – smiling at the drama and the movement.
Peter Boal – Pacific Northwest Ballet – Artistic Director
So how long does he see himself staying on the far side of America? “Well, I am just about to sign another six year contract,” he grinned…
2012 UK National Dance Awards – Winners Announced
The Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle announced the winners of the 13th National Dance Awards at The Place on 28th January 2013.
2012 Dance Memories – London
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories this last year…
Birmingham Royal Ballet – Cinderella – Birmingham
As a young partnership Delia Mathews and Tyrone Singleton really are exceptionally good.
Book – Frederick Ashton’s Ballets by Geraldine Morris
What would he himself make of this book, I wonder? He’d be amazed, I should think, by the amount of detail he’d find, and possibly surprised by some of it…
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…
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.
Birmingham Royal Ballet – The Grand Tour, Faster, The Dream – London
The programme included works both old and new but it was not an altogether successful mixture. The dancers looked most at home, and at their most sleek and impressive, in Faster, a work made on them this year by their Artistic Director, David Bintley, evoking the striving of competitors in the Olympics.
Birmingham Royal Ballet – Take Five, Lyric Pieces, Grosse Fuge – London
Jessica Lang’s Lyric Pieces …is light-as-a-feather work of the utmost good taste – in fact just plain gorgeous.
Birmingham Royal Ballet – Swan Lake (Gittens debut) – Birmingham
Anyway I’d never dream of missing a BRB Lac and usually get up to Birmingham for a matinee – and this time luckily to see Celine Gittens debut as Odette/Odile. There was a lot of hubbub around the performance…
Desmond Kelly – Artistic Director Elmhurst and Governor of the Royal Ballet Companies
My nickname in BRB used to be Bastard – and something happened with Ballet Hoo! – I don’t know whether it’s my age, or the kids we worked with, but it made me realise that you can get the best out of dancers and students by coming in on a certain level and talking to them on a certain level – not always shouting. I do shout still, I do get very angry…
Birmingham Royal Ballet – Promotions, Joiners and Leavers – July 2012
Media Release: Tuesday 10 July 2012 BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET ANNOUNCEMENTS JULY 2012 At the end of the 2011/2012 Season, Birmingham Royal Ballet is able to announce the following: Jenna Roberts is promoted from…
Birmingham Royal Ballet Announcement – The Cadbury Dance Fellowship
Birmingham Royal Ballet, one of the most creative forces in British dance is to receive an award of £1,000,000 and is the only dance company amongst the 18 named recipients…
Royal Ballet – The Prince of the Pagodas – London
Barry Wordsworth conducted the trimmed and re-ordered score as though it were great ballet music. If only.
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…
Birmingham Royal Ballet – Three Short Works (with 2 premieres) – Birmingham
Good to see BRB presenting 2 premieres as part of International Dance Festival Birmingham… A good afternoon.
NIDMS – National Institute of Dance Medicine and Science
What a ridiculous position we are in when 80% of professional dancers suffer an injury each year that stops them working… With so many dancers being touched by injury each year this initiative should have a profound impact on the profession and seems long overdue…
Nina Ananiashvili – 30 years on stage gala – Tbilisi
So what has made her a ballet legend? The simple fact that she lives, breathes and demonstrates the finest techniques of Russian classical ballet. She is fastidious in her footwork, has the most beautiful pliable back, expressive arms and has perfect proportions and great sensitivity…
