Birmingham Royal Ballet announces Black Sabbath – The Ballet
Featuring eight Black Sabbath tracks alongside new music, Birmingham rock meets Birmingham ballet this autumn. Choreography by Pontus Lidberg
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Birmingham Royal Ballet announces BRB2
The new company, featuring 12 dancers aged 18-22, will make its debut in Northampton on April 25, before heading off on a UK tour.
Dance Me celebrates Leonard Cohen and his music
A conversation with Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal artistic director Alexandra Damiani. “Dance Me allows Cohen’s music and songs to shine.”
Ballet meets folk
A conversation with Debbie Norris, founder and artistic director of Ballet Folk, whose The Tears of Jenny Greenteeth is on in London on February 2
Stina Quagebeur talks Take Five Blues and making dance
The extended version has kept the upbeat, uplifting feel of the original, with the nature of the music is as important as ever, she says
Men in Motion returns. A conversation with creator, Ivan Putrov
“It all began with a dream, I guess,” says Putrov, who explains that then, as now, the idea was to showcase the development of men in ballet
A picture of people who breathe and feel, suffer and love: Jiří Kylián’s Forgotten Land comes to Birmingham Royal Ballet
In conversation with the choreographer’s assistant, Cora Bos-Kroese, ahead to the company’s first ever staging of a Kylián work
Birmingham Royal Ballet’s new Hotel promises darkness with a dash of humour in a meeting of dance and film
A conversation with choreographer Morgann Runacre-Temple and BRB principal dancer Tzu-Chao Chou
Strange and futuristic: 100 years of The Triadic Ballet
The costumes are extraordinary, among the most striking and unusual ever conceived. Even a hundred years later, they look strangely futuristic.
The 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe: looking back, looking forward
Some great shows, but visitors down. The soaring cost of accommodation, which has long been a problem but it is starting to get acute
English National Ballet announces Aaron S. Watkin as new Artistic Director
Watkins’ appointment as ENB’s 11th artistic director sees him return to the company, having previously danced with them thirty years ago