★★★✰✰ Starstruck is subtitled "Gene Kelly's Love Letter to Ballet" - it's a ballet about jazzy dancing fizz and if that connects with us then its work is really done.
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★★★✰✰ Northern Ballet just premiered Drew McOnie's Merlin at Nottingham's Theatre Royal. Lots of Arthurian plot and lots of visual spectacle...
★★★★✰ Bruce Marriott takes a second look at Scottish Ballet's new Christmas hit - one day, two shows, many different dancers...
As part of their 50th anniversary Scottish Ballet presents the world premiere of The Crucible by Arthur Miller, choreographed by Helen Pickett, from 3 – 5 August at the Edinburgh International Festival ahead of a Scottish tour. helenpickett.com www.eif.co.uk www.scottishballet.co.uk Dance at this year’s Edinburgh Festival opens with your brand-new take on Arthur Miller’s The Crucible...
★★★★✰ This is my second review of Scottish Ballet's Cinderella this winter. Why? Well, it's a production I like and I wanted to see more dancers in it, silly!
Scottish Ballet have just announced plans for their Fiftieth Anniversary in 2019, including three world premieres - we have the full press release and touch-base with CEO/Artistic Director Christopher Hampson about the celebrations and what happens beyond...
★★★★✰ Absolutely fascinating... Scottish Ballet should feel very proud of celebrating MacMillan in such a thoughtful way...
★★★★✰ ...a great communal effort by the whole company and one that stretches out to embrace kids in the cities it plays to - showing new generations how relevant and effortlessly entertaining ballet can be.
Gallery by Stephen Wright...
★★★★★ It's perhaps a term too often used, but "It doesn't get better than this" is what came immediately to mind at the end.
★★★✰✰ Sophie Martin's Odette/Odille, despite the costume, steals the show with layers of dramatic nuance on top of the pushed lines of Dawson's steps.
Scottish Ballet's autumn bill is an uplifting affair with everything on it new to the company...
Gallery by Stephen Wright...
Les Rendezvous is 21 minutes of classical movement perfection, but Alexander Whitley comes surprisingly close to besting it with his 20-minute more modern take on ballet - Kin.
5 Questions to Alexander Whitley on his up and coming premiere, Frames, for Rambert. It gets unveiled in Glasgow on the 5 March and then tours. All you need to know from the man himself...
Scottish Ballet's new double bill features ballets by experienced choreographers about two not-so-different communities: small-town Wales and narrow-minded Salem...
Christopher Hampson's production, set to Engelbert Humperdinck's 1893 opera score, dances round traditional perceptions of good and evil, raising sinister notions about the invisibility of danger lurking in the real world.
An imaginatively contrasting double-bill, it pulled in audiences and left them buzzing.
The Genée International Ballet Competition 2013 was held in Glasgow this year - Jann Parry reports on the finals for us...
A hit with me and I'm so glad it's a great success in the company's home and a great calling card for touring. It's a particularly useful broadening of Scottish Ballet's repertoire.