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
Birmingham Hippodrome
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
Stylish and dark. Rambert in Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby
Full of familiar moments and familiar characters in familiar settings, and sometimes surprisingly deeply thoughtful
Women’s lockdown stories retold: Kantha Katha-K by Amina Khayyam Dance Company
Old traditions – dance, music and kanthas – are used in new ways to express the very modern experiences of Asian women during the pandemic
Alexander Whitley Dance Company: Overflow
Hazy, dark, bleak, yet in many ways, beautiful. Relentless in all senses, including in the quality and precision of the five superb dancers
Birmingham Royal Ballet’s new Don Quixote is a sunny winner
Superb designs and a revitalised company on top form. Technical fireworks and top-notch light comedy that will delight all. A winner all-round.
The urgency to live: Léa Tirabasso’s Starving Dingoes
Although human, there is an animalistic element to much of the choreography, which has a primitive feel to it.