Birmingham Royal Ballet announce their 2017/2018 season
Includes the welcome return of a second mixed programme and a celebration of the work of Sir Kenneth MacMillan
News & Features
Rosie Kay on MK Ultra: delving into pop culture, brainwashing and mind control
An exploration and deconstruction of the weird world of pop culture, subverting the subversive
India@UK2017 Festival set to inspire
Top of the dance happenings must surely be the return of the Aditi Mangaldas Dance Company
Requiem for Aleppo
We preview a new work created and conceived by composer David Cazalet with choreography by Jason Mabana
First time winners dominate the National Dance Awards
All the winners from the 2016 National Dance Awards
Russian Ballet Icons Gala will celebrate the Ballets Russes
This year’s Russian Ballet Icons Gala, In the Steps of the Ballets Russes, on Sunday March 12 will again feature a host of star dancers from around the world. A celebration of the legacy of the legendary Ballets Russes, the programme will feature excerpts from classics from the days of Diaghilev including The Firebird, Scheherazade, … Read more
A year in dance: 2016 in review
SeeingDance editor David Mead takes a personal glance back at the dance he saw in 2016.
Ahmad Joudeh: from Syria to the Netherlands, dancing for peace
Until recently, Ahmad Joudeh was giving dance classes to children in Damascus. Then Dutch TV made a film…
Dancing city, dancing nation: Aberdeen’s DanceLive and dance in Scotland
“There has always been culture in Aberdeen – you’ve just had to look for it.”
Yuri Grigorovich, master Russian choreographer, reaches his 90th birthday
As he celebrates his 90th birthday on January 2nd, Charlotte Kasner looks at the colossus of Russian choreographers that is Yuri Grigorovich, his times and his work. Yuri Nikolayevich Grigorovich was born in 1927 in Leningrad, ten years after the October revolution that swept imperialism away and just three years after the death of Lenin … Read more
As he celebrates his 90th birthday, three Yuri Grigorovich classic ballet productions come to the big screen
As Charlotte Kasner points out in her in-depth look at Yuri Grigorovich, if there is one choreographer who dominated Russian ballet during the second half of the 20th-century it is surely Yuri Grigorovich, who on January 2nd, 2017, celebrates his 90th birthday, an occasion being marked by the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow with a season … Read more