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Nutcracker

Birmingham Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker

November 20, 2023 by David Mead

Momoko Hirata and Mathias Digman lit up the stage in the grand pas de deux. ‘Polished’ does not do them justice. Hirata sparkled like a cut diamond

Categories Birmingham & Midlands Reviews Tags Birmingham Hippodrome Birmingham Royal Ballet Lev Ivanov Nutcracker Peter Wright Vincent Redmon

The McOnie Company’s Nutcracker at the Tuff Nutt Jazz Club

November 6, 2023November 6, 2023 by David Mead

It is great fun; a show that will delight dance lovers and music lovers, young and old alike. The time flies. The dance comes pretty much non-stop

Categories London & SE Reviews Tags Drew McOnie McOnie Company Nutcracker Southbank Centre

Classicism to the fore: John Cranko School

July 22, 2023 by David Mead

Absolutely and unashamedly classically-focused. Even the student choreography. The contemporary pieces were clearly classically underwritten too

Categories Europe Reviews Tags Alessandro Giaquinto Alice McArthur Emanuele Babici John Cranko School (John Cranko Schule) Lev Ivanov Marius Petipa Nutcracker School & conservatoire performances Swan Lake Vasily Vainonen

Tiler Peck to create new ballet for Northern Ballet’s new season

April 25, 2023April 25, 2023 by David Mead

Her new piece will form one third of Generations: Three Short Ballets, a trio of works created by choreographers from across the generations

Categories News North Tags Benjamin Ella Christopher Gable David Nixon Hans van Manen Northern Ballet Nutcracker Romeo & Juliet Tiler Peck

Two world premieres headline English National Ballet’s 2023/2024 season

March 1, 2023 by David Mead

ENB’s 2023-24 season will feature new ballets by Andrea Miller and David Dawson, plus the UK premiere of Johan Inger’s Carmen.

Categories London & SE News Tags Andrea Miller Carmen David Dawson Derek Deane English National Ballet George Balanchine Giselle Johan Inger Mary Skeaping Nutcracker

A delicious confection: The Tokyo Ballet in The Nutcracker

February 1, 2023 by David Mead

Akira Akiyama allies strength with a lovely soft delicacy. She finds remarkable lightness is everything as she speaks with her whole body

Categories Asia Asia Pages/亞洲頁 Japan/日本 Reviews Tags Nutcracker The Tokyo Ballet Yukari Saito

The Nutcracker at the Royal Albert Hall

December 29, 2022 by Charlotte Kasner

A Nutcracker that provides all that is expected in an entertaining evening that left the audience very happy.

Categories London & SE Reviews Tags Birmingham Royal Ballet Nutcracker Peter Wright Royal Albert Hall

Christmas comes to the Coliseum with English National Ballet’s Nutcracker

December 19, 2022 by Anna Pujol Castiblanque

Julia Conway, still only a Soloist, fully showed her potential, presenting a Sugar Plum Fairy variation with many new challenging technical steps

Categories London & SE Reviews Tags English National Ballet Nutcracker Wayne Eagling

Stuttgart Ballet’s new family-friendly Nutcracker

December 18, 2022 by David Mead

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

Categories Europe Reviews Tags Edward Clug Nutcracker Stuttgart Ballet

A Nutcracker with a difference. Christian Spuck’s Nussknacker und Mausekönig for Ballett Zürich

December 10, 2022 by David Mead

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

Categories Europe Reviews Tags Ballett Zürich Christian Spuck Nutcracker

Glistening, glowing and a riot of colour: Birmingham Royal Ballet’s reinvigorated Nutcracker

November 23, 2022 by David Mead

The refurbishment hasn’t just freshened the ballet up, it’s completely reinvigorated it… The perfect pre-festive treat for old and young alike

Categories Birmingham & Midlands Reviews Tags Birmingham Hippodrome Birmingham Royal Ballet Nutcracker Peter Wright Vincent Redmon
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