Rambert announces Rambert2 and opens worldwide talent search
Rambert2 will be the first junior ensemble attached to a UK repertory company
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First commissions announced in Ballet Now talent development programme
Two new one-act ballets per year for five years
‘The Nutcracker and I’ by Alexandra Dariescu brings live dance and animation to the classical music concert hall
A concert with live dance and animation coming to Milton court at the Barbican
Changing attitudes with Ballet United
Dancer Tom Attard Manché seeks to encourage more young people to come to ballet
Birmingham Weekender: The city’s biggest arts festival ready for take-off
With just a week to go, David Mead looks ahead to the city’s autumn all-arts fest, coming September 22-24. Over 160 performances, 600+ artists, 26 new commissions. That’s Birmingham Weekender 2017, now almost upon us. The three-day festival features free performances and events from the city’s major arts organisations, independent artists and especially invited international … Read more
Comic Cuts and a feast of summer dance coming soon at Elmhurst Ballet School
David Mead looks ahead to Summer Variations, this year’s Elmhurst Ballet School’s summer shows with school artistic director, Robert Parker, and David Bintley, director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, who has created his first work for the students. In Birmingham, full-time dance training means Elmhurst Ballet School, Britain’s oldest vocational dance school, now fast approaching its … Read more
Let’s Dance International Frontiers returns to Leicester with another impressive programme
Let’s Dance International Frontiers often feels like one of those hidden away festivals…
The Legend of Mulan comes to London
The Hong Kong Dance Company is bringing the famous Chinese story to London’s Royal Festival Hall
…and they don’t even get to see the dance
They do just as much preparation, but don’t get to see the dance
English National Ballet 2017-8 Autumn/Winter Season
Includes Kenneth MacMillan’s masterpiece, Song of the Earth and Frank Andersen’s La Sylphide
DanceXchange launches new programme to support Midlands artists
The first two new dx Associates and five dx Choreography Award recipients named