National Dance Awards 2023 nominations announced
In what is the best year yet for diversity, the nominations are spread across a record 29 separate companies
The Royal Ballet
International Draft Works
A short evening with plenty of variety, as ten choreographers, mostly still dancers themselves, were given the space to experiment.
Macmillan short works celebrated by The Royal Ballet
This triple bill of Danses Concertantes, Different Drummer and Requiem gives evidence of the breadth and depth of his creative talents
Nuñez and Muntagirov light up The Royal Ballet’s Swan Lake
Swan Lake is the ballerina’s ballet and Nuñez was perfection from her first grand jeté to her final death plunge.
Festival of New Choreography: Dark with Excessive Bright, Duets
Shedding their very traditional image, the Royal Opera House has opened up unusual spaces and introduced new faces.
A box of delights: New Works at The Royal Ballet
There is much to like, not least that all have an overt classical core… A big hurrah too for the fact that three of the pieces feature pointework…
The Royal Ballet: Manon
Period melodrama brought to vivid life. Love, jealousy, criminality, sexual abuse, murder… And Francesca Hayward was near perfect in the title role
Mthuthuzeli November: making ballet with humanity
Ahead of the premieres of his new works for Ballett Zürich and The Royal Ballet, Maggie Foyer looks at the work of the South African choreographer.
Dynamo: Michael Somes A Life In The Royal Ballet
A long-overdue look at an underrated and perhaps now largely forgotten principal dancer.
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.