Birmingham Royal Ballet 2022-2023 plans
Includes the UK premiere of Uwe Scholz’s best creations, his dramatic setting of Beethoven’s vibrant Seventh Symphony alongside world premieres and revivals
Includes the UK premiere of Uwe Scholz’s best creations, his dramatic setting of Beethoven’s vibrant Seventh Symphony alongside world premieres and revivals
It’s Christmas, it’s Birmingham, and The Nutcracker is back live. Except that it’s not quite the one we have all been used to the past 30 years.
Birmingham Royal Ballet and Rosie Kay Dance Company. Indie rock and ballet. In Brum. And it was absolutely riveting.
With Momoko Horata and César Morales. BRB did the ballet proud, dancing finely and making the spine tingle in all the right places.
Eighteen months on from the original planned first night, David Mead talks to the very happy choreographer as Mariposa finally reaches the stage
Including Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet and Carlos Acosta’s Don Quixote
“I just felt this little tiny itch growing in me”
Powerful, inexplicable meanderings of the heart
Uwe Scholz, Jiri Kylian, Goyo Montero, plus the usual classics
All the marvellously magical tricks and special effects working overtime