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.”
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
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
Curious and questioning: Jasmin Vardimon on her new ALiCE
A conversation with Jasmin Vardimon about her new production, ALiCE, and a look at her company’s fabulous new creative hub in Ashford, Kent.
Rooted in tradition but a Coppélia of today
Christopher Hampson talks about Scottish Ballet’s new Coppélia by Jess and Morgs that premieres at the Edinburgh International Festival
Scottish Dance Theatre’s Joan Clevillé on Antigone Interrupted, being back in theatres, and the future
“Trying to expand the range of work, having a whole range of experiences that pushes the art form forward, I think is crucial to us going forward.”