★★★✰✰ Northern Ballet just premiered Drew McOnie's Merlin at Nottingham's Theatre Royal. Lots of Arthurian plot and lots of visual spectacle...
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★★★✰✰ The works offer strong contrasts between the traditional story-telling strength of Northern Ballet and more abstract thematic dance.
Marston has been working at Northern Ballet creating Victoria for the company (premiere this month) and we wanted to find out more, also catch up on other commissions and discuss just how she works creatively and manages to juggle it all so effortlessly…
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
The Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle is pleased to announce the nominations for the 19th National Dance Awards…
★★★★✰ A good night of new work for Leeds coupling a rising star from outside with local and much-loved company talent.
★★★✰✰ This excellent ballet is clearly a “keeper” and a work I would like to see again and again.
★★★★✰ Elite Syncopations: Dancers from all five major British ballet companies took part, some doubling up roles in identical outfits so that identifying dancers was confusing. The stand-out solo in both the casts I saw was to the Calliope Rag, Monica Mason’s original role...
★★★★✰ Gloria was Nixon’s first choice because he felt it showed MacMillan at his moving best. It contrasts Poulenc’s choral setting of the Latin text from the mass in praise of God with the toll of human lives in the First World War.
★★★★✰ In his new ballet, Kenneth Tindall takes Casanova on an epic adventure in absorbing dance theatre that aligns his inventive choreography and mime with a strong and exciting narrative...
Birmingham Royal Ballet: Taming of the Shrew (Birmingham) and Northern Ballet: Jane Eyre (Leicester)
★★★✰✰ for BRB's troublesome fun packed Taming of the Shrew and ★★★★✰ Northern Ballet's Jane Eyre with Hannah Bateman in the lead...
★★★★✰ ...their final duet, when Rochester is blinded and broken, is truly touching...
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
★★★★✰ It's actually the best new narrative work I've seen Northern Ballet do in many years.
★★★✰✰ Although David Nixon authored this ballet long before Lord Grantham was a twinkle in Julian Fellowes’ eye, it certainly provides an inkling of Swan Lake meets Downton Abbey.
Seeing Northern Ballet's Nutcracker is a lot like going to a favourite local trattoria. It's not incredibly fancy but the base ingredients are rather good - in this case the dancers and music...
It's a significant accomplishment - Watkins has really marked his card.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
Good to see Northern Ballet back at the Royal Opera House with a mixed bill of 5 new and old works, rather different to the full evening dramatic ballets with which they tour the nation.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...