Giselle debuts
Ahead of their debuts as Akram Khan’s Giselle, ENB’s Francesca Velicu and Ivana Bueno spoke to Maggie Foyer about getting into the role.
English National Ballet
Compelling: Akram Khan’s Giselle
Erina Takahashi brought to her rendition of Giselle, a delicacy, intimacy, and freshness… searing dramatisation of the doomed woman
Ballet Nights at Cadogan Hall
A mixed bill brought, inevitably perhaps, mixed success but without a shadow of a doubt, it was worth it for Set Fast alone.
English National Ballet School annual performance
The third year’s classical work was Les Patineurs (1937), and then Pina Bausch’s Tannhăuser Bacchanal (1972), a fascinating piece of dance history
Ballet Nights 05
What we’ve come to expect from Ballet Nights is quality, variety and difference. This was evident in spades at the fifth presentation.
English National Ballet’s Swan Lake-in-the-round
Sangeun Lee had emotion in spades, her sharp-edged Odile contrasting starkly with her soft, sad, Odette
English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer
One couple, Breanna Foad and Thiago Pereira stood out, and it was no great surprise when Foad was named Emerging Dancer 2024
Rentaro Nakaaki on choreographing for English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer
It will be another step on his choreographic journey as he creates the contemporary work for 2024 finalists, Anna Ciriano and Shunhei Fuchiyama
National Dance Awards 2023 nominations announced
In what is the best year yet for diversity, the nominations are spread across a record 29 separate companies
English National Ballet in Johan Inger’s Carmen
There is definitely a sense that we are observing a community living on the edges of society and, for all Inger’s protestations…, it is clearly gitano
Festival of New Choreography: Dark with Excessive Bright, Duets
Shedding their very traditional image, the Royal Opera House has opened up unusual spaces and introduced new faces.