An Evening of Music and Dance
Pure joy. Birmingham Royal Ballet and The Royal Ballet Sinfonia at Symphony Hall
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Life minutely observed: Familie Flöz in Infinita
Teetering on the fine edge between laughter and tears, a warts-and-all celebration of what it is to be human
Lots of blood, lots of fun
If you want your horror with lots of blood, axe-wielding humans and ghosts, mayhem and madness…
Shakespeare’s tempestuous love story
The Bolshoi Ballet in Jean-Christophe Maillot’s The Taming of the Shrew
Casse Noisette Compagnie
Charlotte Kasner takes in Les Ballets de Monte Carlo’s live screening in London
Shiori Kase shines in English National Ballet’s Nutcracker
Wayne Eagling’s Nutcracker promises much. Peter Farmer’s designs for the opening scenes set outside the Stahlbaum’s house exude Edwardian nostalgia
A Winter Wonderland: Birmingham Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker
It may have been Black Friday, that ghastly and unnecessary American import, but there was nothing black at the Birmingham Hippodrome in the evening. With Christmas trees, tinsel and fairy lights decorating the foyers, it was the launch of the festive season for ballet-goers: Nutcracker time!