This Sleeping Beauty is not flawless. But the production’s strengths are considerable: the splendour of its costumes, the sweep of the music, the scale of the occasion, and above all Emma Hawes’ luminous Aurora.
Kenneth MacMillan’s ballet is built from fractured needs, twisted intimacies and bodies that say what the characters themselves cannot
A well-balanced triple bill of a MacMillan classic, a European premiere from director, Cathy Marston, and a brand new commission from Bryan Arias.
Nemesis is a real juicy nugget of a work, one that makes you want to see more of Ihsan Rustem’s choreography and Ballett Augsburg.
Schonbrun delivered on all counts with beautifully placed feet, crystalline classical positions and a finely drawn reading of a complex, wilful Juliet.
World premieres by Wayne McGregor, Cathy Marston, Akram Khan, León-Lightfoot, and a first Royal Ballet presentation by NYCB’s Justin Peck
The company are set to perform works by Martha Graham and Crystal Pite, a new ballet by Kameron N. Saunders, and some old favourites
Anna Rose O’Sullivan stole the performance with depiction of a headstrong, intuitive, naïve, madly in love teenager
As he guests in Cape Town, Maggie Foyer speaks to Brandon Lawrence as he weighs up the pros and cons of making career defining choices
The highlight of the company’s inaugural programme is undoubtedly Kenneth MacMillan’s Ballade.
High standards and diverse repertory, including the much awaited revival of Kenneth MacMillan’s Ballade, and Arielle Smith’s new Five Dances