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Steven McRae awarded Young Australian Achiever of the Year in the UK. Principal Dancer of the Royal Ballet wants to inspire other children to chase their dreams...
“I want audiences to leave inspired, not scratching themselves in boredom."
It looks as though Natalia Osipova is to become Sylvie Guillem’s successor at the Royal Ballet, giving her idiosyncratic interpretation of a role whether or not it aligns with the company’s existing production.
Where Cheap Lecture seemed content to dispense casual and unpretentious pearls of wisdom in rhythmic form (“things made with effort sometimes only show effort”), Rebelling Against Limits seems shot-through with a minor angst...
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Jarkko has just taken over as Artistic Director of the JoJo - Oulu Dance Centre based in Northern Finland. This month he starts to explain what his directorship is about...
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
And the opening night? Well it was a typical night in many respects - one piece giving cause for hope, another had its fleeting moments and the third wasn't really ready yet for the big time.
John Craxton, the celebrated designer of Frederick Ashton’s Daphnis and Chloe, is the subject of an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge...
Anna-Marie Holmes’s latest staging of Le Corsaire has proved to be a triumph for English National Ballet...
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Members of The Royal Ballet, including Principals Edward Watson, Lauren Cuthbertson, Sarah Lamb and Rupert Pennefather, will be performing at a unique gala evening on Sunday 2 Feb in aid of Ghanaian charity Ashanti Development.
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories this last year...
I have yet to see a less than full-throttle performance, even when a choreographer’s style does not quite fit the company’s technique...
The production provides a welcome showcase for the power and virtuosity of the company’s men who are on magnificent form, led by the splendid Chen Jun.
Ah, the brilliance of brevity. Scott Wells & Dancers plunge straight into Father On with a thirty-second audio track that sums up courtship, marriage,and conception.
Fascinating to see the Royal Ballet’s production of Balanchine’s Jewels not long after the Bolshoi’s account at the Royal Opera House in summer. Unlike the Russians, the Royal Ballet dancers understand the different period conventions of the three ‘acts’...
Strongest to emerge was Dzierzon's 'Hikikomori' apparently about social reclusiveness, though Dzierzon’s treatment of her theme was not didactic...
The' Wind in the Willows' is the Royal Opera House’s first transfer to the West End. I hope other shows will follow...