Review: Birmingham Royal Ballet performs 20th-Century Masterpieces
Graham Watts sees Ashton’s Birthday Offering, Jooss’s The Green Table and Balanchine’s Theme and Variations – an excellent programme to close a very good year at BRB.
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Graham Watts sees Ashton’s Birthday Offering, Jooss’s The Green Table and Balanchine’s Theme and Variations – an excellent programme to close a very good year at BRB.
Dame Darcey Bussell reflects on the start of her career with Birmingham Royal Ballet, performing Birthday Offering, and its technical demands.
The celebration for Sir Peter Wright’s 100th birthday continued at the Birmingham Hippodrome last night with 20th-Century Masterpieces, a trio of wonderful short ballets, Frederick...
Birmingham Royal Ballet hosted a very special Gala night last night to celebrate the 100th birthday of the legendary Sir Peter Wright. The man who bought the Sadler’s Wells ballet...
Matthew Paluch sees two debuts in The Royal Ballet’s La Fille mal gardée – Mayara Magri and Leo Dixon. The joy and embodiment were real, and consequently, Ashton’s genius lives on.
Dame Margot Fonteyn (1919 - 1991) prima ballerina assoluta, lived here.The Theatre and Film Guild
Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel sees Leticia Dias and Joseph Sissens as Lise and Colas, “finding love, the Ashton way”, in Ballet’s La Fille mal gardée.
Graham Watts sees The Royal Ballet’s La Fille mal gardée with Sae Maeda making her debut as Lise with sunshine, smiles, soaring legs and coy naughtiness.
Royal Ballet Principal dancer Natalia Osipova to make her West End debut in The Standard of Living, a new play by James Graham based on the life of John Maynard Keynes.
First Soloist Valentino Zucchetti is to leave The Royal Ballet after 16 years to pursue his choreographic and producing career.
Graham Watts sees New Futures from Ballet Nights, featuring 150 dancers from seven leading dance schools, but it needed pruning and better management.
Graham Watts sees two top ballet schools at the Royal Ballet & Opera's Next Generation Festival, dancing as if they were already fully fledged professionals.
Tonight is the opening of the Verdensballetten (World Ballet) in the garden of the Royal Garden Society in Copenhagen, and it is on tour until 30 August.
Graham Spicer sees Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in Milan – beneath the spectacle is a quiet emotional core.
The programme So Are We marks the first time a British company has performed the work of choreographers Sol León and Paul Lightfoot. Tristram Kenton took a first look at Covent Gar...
Graham Watts sees the opening night of The Sleeping Beauty at the Royal Albert Hall but is disappointed by a staging that militates against the magic.
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe company’s centenary celebration isn’t about nostalgia – this occasionally thrilling triple bill of recent creations showcases some excellent dancersBritai...
Scott C Morgan sees Yuri Possokhov's Eugene Onegin with a new lush, cinematic score by Ilya Demutsky – with dashing José Pablo Castro Cuevas and masterful Victoria Jaiani.
The Royal Ballet is the first British company to perform the work of the contemporary choreographic duo Sol León and Paul Lightfoot.
Graham Watts sees Gentleman Jack with Nida Aydinoğlu – a future star – and enjoys the unique choreographic style, memorable score, and emphatic set design.
Matthew Paluch sees The Sleeping Beauty at The Royal Albert Hall – good dancing with a digital backdrop that brings the story and score to life even more.
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English National Ballet has presented four Emerging Dancer 2026 awards - the competition will be available free online from 4 June.
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