Birmingham Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker
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
Peter Wright
A classic that reaches out and touches: Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Swan Lake
A fine telling of the tale of love, betrayal and loss. An evening full of power and tenderness. Classical ballet at its classical best
An Evening of Music and Dance with Birmingham Royal Ballet
The annual night out at Symphony Hall returned in style with a gala-like programme of orchestral and dance selections.
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.
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
Birmingham Royal Ballet: Coppélia
Tyrone Singleton and Céline Gittens bring elegance and class to Peter Farmer’s Rhineland village, with the final pas de deux the icing on the cake
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.
The Royal Ballet School Summer Performance
A fine afternoon’s dancing, this year mostly by the Upper School, highlighted by Elite Syncopations
Seasonal spirit: Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Nutcracker at the REP
Eighty minutes of escape from the awful times we find ourselves in
Samara Downs glitters in Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Swan Lake
Powerful, inexplicable meanderings of the heart