Dynamo: Michael Somes A Life In The Royal Ballet
A long-overdue look at an underrated and perhaps now largely forgotten principal dancer.
The Royal Ballet
Steps and words. Francesca Hayward and Alexander Campbell in The Limit
Kristen McNally’s light touch choreography fits perfectly. Nestling beautifully with the text, it’s sometimes playful, occasionally spiky, always colloquial.
The Royal Ballet: Anemoi, The Cellist
The Cellist: a fine piece of dance drama, and a fitting memoir of a brilliant and popular musician whose career and life were so tragically cut short.
The Royal Ballet: Don Quixote
You can’t deny it’s a crowd-pleaser. Sunny and warm, full of dancing bullfighters, gypsies and other locals, Don Quixote is real feelgood ballet
Dance up close. Ballet Nights launches in London’s Docklands
A new season mixing classical, neoclassical and contemporary dance, well-known works and new choreography gets off to a fine start
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
A star still shining brightly: Acosta at 50
An evening that oozed warmth. Of the ten ballets and excerpts presented in this birthday celebration, Acosta appears in five.
A new McGregor and a riveting Anastasia from The Royal Ballet
Wayne McGregor’s new and elegantly clean ‘Untitled, 2023’, Christopher Wheeldon’s ‘Corybantic Games’, and Natalia Osipova as Anna Anderson
Scottish Ballet take the honours in the 23rd National Dance Awards
A great year for Scottish Ballet who were voted Outstanding Company, also picking up two awards for Jess & Morgs’ Coppélia
Nominations announced for the 23rd National Dance Awards
The Royal Ballet tops the short-list with 14 nominations. English National Ballet and Rambert have seven, and Birmingham Royal Ballet five.
A celebratory showcase: Ballet Icons Gala
Fifteen pieces, from familiar showpiece pas de deux to less well-known duets and solos… A celebratory showcase for all that is great about dance.