First time winners dominate the National Dance Awards
All the winners from the 2016 National Dance Awards
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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
Global dance names and emerging local artists at the Hong Kong Arts Festival 2017
The dance programme at the 2017 Hong Kong Arts Festival is packed with quality performers. The headlines are naturally taken by the three big visitors: the Bayerisches Staatsballett and Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch from Germany, and Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal from Canada. There much more too, though, including plenty of local dance-making talent on … Read more
Ballet leads the way in the National Dance Awards nominations
The nominations for the 17th National Dance Awards (covering the period September 2015-August 2016) are out. Organised by the Dance Section of the Critics Circle, the body of professional dance critics in the UK, they again celebrate the vigour and diversity of Britain’s thriving dance culture. Having said that, ballet featured particularly strongly this year … Read more
Bolshoi cinema Sundays are back!
This season, the Bolshoi Ballet can again be seen in cinemas across Britain