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Birmingham Royal Ballet announces Black Sabbath – The Ballet

February 8, 2023 by David Mead

Featuring eight Black Sabbath tracks alongside new music, Birmingham rock meets Birmingham ballet this autumn. Choreography by Pontus Lidberg

Categories Birmingham & Midlands News Tags Birmingham Hippodrome Birmingham Royal Ballet Black Sabbath Pontus Lidberg Sadler's Wells

Glistening, glowing and a riot of colour: Birmingham Royal Ballet’s reinvigorated Nutcracker

November 23, 2022 by David Mead

The refurbishment hasn’t just freshened the ballet up, it’s completely reinvigorated it… The perfect pre-festive treat for old and young alike

Categories Birmingham & Midlands Reviews Tags Birmingham Hippodrome Birmingham Royal Ballet Nutcracker Peter Wright Vincent Redmon

Birmingham Royal Ballet: Coppélia

October 27, 2022 by David Mead

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

Categories Birmingham & Midlands Reviews Tags Birmingham Hippodrome Birmingham Royal Ballet Coppélia Peter Wright

A triple bill to thrill: Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Into the Music

October 24, 2022 by David Mead

A wonderfully varied evening…quite outstanding dancing, rounded off with the fireworks of Uwe Scholz’s The Seventh Symphony

Categories Birmingham & Midlands Reviews Tags Birmingham Hippodrome Birmingham Royal Ballet Jess and Morgs Jessica Wright Jiří Kylián Morgann Runacre-Temple Uwe Scholz

A picture of people who breathe and feel, suffer and love: Jiří Kylián’s Forgotten Land comes to Birmingham Royal Ballet

October 6, 2022 by David Mead

In conversation with the choreographer’s assistant, Cora Bos-Kroese, ahead to the company’s first ever staging of a Kylián work

Categories Birmingham & Midlands Features Tags Birmingham Hippodrome Birmingham Royal Ballet Jiří Kylián Sadler's Wells

Birmingham Royal Ballet’s new Hotel promises darkness with a dash of humour in a meeting of dance and film

October 2, 2022 by David Mead

A conversation with choreographer Morgann Runacre-Temple and BRB principal dancer Tzu-Chao Chou

Categories Birmingham & Midlands Features Tags Birmingham Hippodrome Birmingham Royal Ballet Jess and Morgs Jessica Wright Morgann Runacre-Temple Sadler's Wells

Stylish and dark. Rambert in Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby

September 29, 2022September 29, 2022 by David Mead

Full of familiar moments and familiar characters in familiar settings, and sometimes surprisingly deeply thoughtful

Categories Birmingham & Midlands Reviews Tags Benoit Swan-Pouffer Birmingham Hippodrome Rambert

Women’s lockdown stories retold: Kantha Katha-K by Amina Khayyam Dance Company

September 22, 2022 by David Mead

Old traditions – dance, music and kanthas – are used in new ways to express the very modern experiences of Asian women during the pandemic

Categories Birmingham & Midlands Reviews Tags Amina Khayyam Amina Khayyam Dance Company Birmingham Hippodrome

Alexander Whitley Dance Company: Overflow

March 5, 2022March 5, 2022 by David Mead

Hazy, dark, bleak, yet in many ways, beautiful. Relentless in all senses, including in the quality and precision of the five superb dancers

Categories Birmingham & Midlands Reviews Tags Alexander Whitley Alexander Whitley Dance Company Birmingham Hippodrome

Birmingham Royal Ballet’s new Don Quixote is a sunny winner

February 21, 2022 by David Mead

Superb designs and a revitalised company on top form. Technical fireworks and top-notch light comedy that will delight all. A winner all-round.

Categories Birmingham & Midlands Reviews Tags Birmingham Hippodrome Birmingham Royal Ballet Carlos Acosta Don Quixote

The urgency to live: Léa Tirabasso’s Starving Dingoes 

February 13, 2022 by David Mead

Although human, there is an animalistic element to much of the choreography, which has a primitive feel to it.

Categories Birmingham & Midlands Reviews Tags Birmingham Hippodrome Léa Tirabasso
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A delicious confection: The Tokyo Ballet in The Nutcracker

A delicious confection: The Tokyo Ballet in The Nutcracker

David Mead | February 1, 2023February 1, 2023

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