A delicious confection: The Tokyo Ballet in The Nutcracker
Akira Akiyama allies strength with a lovely soft delicacy. She finds remarkable lightness is everything as she speaks with her whole body
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The Nutcracker at the Royal Albert Hall
A Nutcracker that provides all that is expected in an entertaining evening that left the audience very happy.
Christmas comes to the Coliseum with English National Ballet’s Nutcracker
Julia Conway, still only a Soloist, fully showed her potential, presenting a Sugar Plum Fairy variation with many new challenging technical steps
Stuttgart Ballet’s new family-friendly Nutcracker
By Edward Clug, with sets and costumes by the acclaimed Jürgen Rose. And it’s the 85-year-old Rose’s designs that stick most in the memory
A Nutcracker with a difference. Christian Spuck’s Nussknacker und Mausekönig for Ballett Zürich
Complex and a real puzzle, for a while, Spuck’s ballet is very disorienting although it does become increasingly clear as the familiar starts to emerge
Glistening, glowing and a riot of colour: Birmingham Royal Ballet’s reinvigorated Nutcracker
The refurbishment hasn’t just freshened the ballet up, it’s completely reinvigorated it… The perfect pre-festive treat for old and young alike
Curtain Up! takes younger readers behind-the-scenes at the Royal Opera House
Curtain Up! packs a lot into its 40 pages… a super insight for young people (and possibly their grown-ups) into the world of ballet and opera.
A memorable evening in Hamburg: Nijinsky Gala XLVII
A long evening with some of the best dance on the planet and memorable performances
English National Ballet’s Nutcracker returns
Erina Takahashi and Francesco Gabriele Frola were an elegant pair in the big Act II pas de deux, where the ballet truly burst into glittering life
Birmingham Royal Ballet’s festive Nutcracker
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 2021-22 plans
Including Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet and Carlos Acosta’s Don Quixote