A sunny evening with Birmingham Royal Ballet’s La Fille mal gardée
Fine, bright, happy dancing, great characterisations, Osbert Lancaster’s brilliantly sunny designs. Even a super-cute pony. A real heart-warming evening.
Fine, bright, happy dancing, great characterisations, Osbert Lancaster’s brilliantly sunny designs. Even a super-cute pony. A real heart-warming evening.
The highlight was Olivia Chang-Clarke’s new Melody in Three. While classical through and through, dotted throughout are quirky moments that make you smile
The visits of Tiler Peck and Friends and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater garner both two awards, with the De Valois lifetime award going to Ian Webb.
It was no surprise when Ellyne Knol, presently finishing her studies at The Conservatoire in The Hague, took the top Gail Monahan Award
If this Saturday matinée at a sold out Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham is anything to go by, BRB2 are well worth catching again
Peter Wright’s unerring sense of theatre is evident throughout in this iconic production which premiered in 1984
In what is the best year yet for diversity, the nominations are spread across a record 29 separate companies
A short evening with plenty of variety, as ten choreographers, mostly still dancers themselves, were given the space to experiment.
Yu Kurihara’s Aurora is light, elegant and comes with a smile that lights up the whole theatre.
For the second in our occasional series, the Birmingham Royal Ballet principal dancer chooses his seven works that have particular significance, saying a few words about each. Born in Yilan in the north-east of Taiwan, Tzu-chao Chou (周子超) was very active as a child. When he was nine, his parents thought that dance lessons would … Read more
Premiering in Birmingham (October 3-5, 2024) before moving to Sadler’s Wells (October 22-23), Luna is a two-act abstract ballet in six movements