Birmingham Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker
Momoko Hirata and Mathias Digman lit up the stage in the grand pas de deux. ‘Polished’ does not do them justice. Hirata sparkled like a cut diamond
Birmingham Hippodrome
An evening of many moods and fine dance from Ailey 2
Pick of the evening was Robert Battle’s The Hunt. About the predatory side of human nature, it’s intense. Very intense.
Ballet rocks! Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Black Sabbath
I don’t recall a Birmingham ballet evening like it. An evening of surprises. A real celebration of the band and its music. And of dance.
Three generations of dances in a super Birmingham Royal Ballet mixed bill
A huge welcome back for Apollo, remarkably now only five years from the hundredth anniversary of its creation
A classic that reaches out and touches: Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Swan Lake
A fine telling of the tale of love, betrayal and loss. An evening full of power and tenderness. Classical ballet at its classical best
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
Glistening, glowing and a riot of colour: Birmingham Royal Ballet’s reinvigorated Nutcracker
The refurbishment hasn’t just freshened the ballet up, it’s completely reinvigorated it… The perfect pre-festive treat for old and young alike
Birmingham Royal Ballet: Coppélia
Tyrone Singleton and Céline Gittens bring elegance and class to Peter Farmer’s Rhineland village, with the final pas de deux the icing on the cake
A triple bill to thrill: Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Into the Music
A wonderfully varied evening…quite outstanding dancing, rounded off with the fireworks of Uwe Scholz’s The Seventh Symphony
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