Diversity is the big winner at the National Dance Awards 2024
Best Male Dancer jointly awarded to Tommy Franzén (hip hop) and Aakash Odedra (kathak), with both also winning performance awards.
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“A living language of emotion”
That’s flamenco says London Flamenco Festival director Miguel Marin, who talks to David Mead ahead of the festival’s 20th anniversary, 2025 edition
National Dance Awards nominations announced
The Royal Ballet tops the shortlists with eleven nominations, followed by seven for English National Ballet
New works and popular revivals: The Royal Ballet 2025-26
World premieres by Wayne McGregor, Cathy Marston, Akram Khan, León-Lightfoot, and a first Royal Ballet presentation by NYCB’s Justin Peck
English National Ballet 2025-26 Season
The company are set to perform works by Martha Graham and Crystal Pite, a new ballet by Kameron N. Saunders, and some old favourites
Preparing for Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring in Munich
In April, the Bayerisches Staatsballett dance Pina Basuch’s Rite of Spring. Jeannette Andersen talks to former Bausch dancers about staging the work
James Pett and Travis Clausen-Knight talk about A Stranding
For A Stranding, which premieres at the Ballet Icons Gala 2025, James and Travis will be joined by former Paris Opera Ballet étoile, Marie Agnès Gillot
BalletX at Ballet Nights
Co-founder and artistic and executive director Christine Cox talks about the company and its work, and Trey McIntyre’s ‘Big Ones,’ which they wil dance
Spirits of the Ballet in Giselle and La Sylphide
Ballet workshops for adults seem to have fallen by the wayside rather in England. But at the Bayerisches Staatsballett in Munich they are going strong. On a Saturday evening in February, Jeannette Andersen joined one such. Half-an-hour before the workshop began, the 18 participants, one man and 17 women of various ages, slowly trickled into … Read more
Valentino Zucchetti talks Tales of Apollo and Hercules
Zucchetti notes that Greco-Roman mythology was rooted in his upbringing… “I want to use ballet to drive the story and shape the narrative”
Birmingham Royal Ballet announces 2025-26 season and a centenary tribute to Sir Peter Wright
The return of Black Sabbath – The Ballet and Don Quixote, and of The Green Table in a fabulous triple bill, plus a gala for Sir Peter Wright