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
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.
A new Nutcracker as English National Ballet’s 75th season is announced
The 2024-25 season also includes a new work by William Forysythe as part of a Forsythe evening, and both the company’s Giselles.
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Proximity was highlight of the second half. Choreographed and performed by Pett|Clausen-Knight, it is a mature, sophisticated duet
English National Ballet: Our Voices
Hopes were up. ENB have been riding high of late, with particularly strong dancing from the men and exciting choices of programme.
Dance up close and personal: Jamiel Devernay-Laurence talks about Ballet Nights
David Mead talks to the artistic director of Ballet Nights, a new season of dance this autumn at Lanterns Studio Theatre in London’s Canary Wharf