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Review: A Centenary Celebration with The Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and the Royal Ballet School
A Centenary Celebration marks 100 years of the Royal Ballet School with heritage ballets, world premieres and a finale that floods the stage with dancers.
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ENO’s Einstein on the Beach and Rambert’s It’s A Sin lead Factory International’s 2027 season
Factory International’s 2027 season also brings Gregory Maqoma’s dance opera Genesis and Florentina Holzinger’s A Year Without Summer to Manchester.
Birmingham Royal Ballet returns to China for the first time in nearly 20 years
Five Birmingham Royal Ballet dancers and Royal Ballet Sinfonia musicians open in Shenzhen, then take masterclasses to Chengdu, Shanghai and Beijing.
Review: Mamela Nyamza’s The Herd/Less – a noisy, vivid portrait of South Africa today
Mamela Nyamza’s The Herd/Less opens Dance Umbrella with stomping dancers on tin cans, a balanced sword and potent symbols of South Africa today.
Tatjana Gürbaca makes her Italian debut with a new Falstaff for the Opera di Roma
German director Tatjana Gürbaca sets Verdi’s Falstaff in a dreamlike Grand Hotel et de Milan – Verdi’s second home in the last years of his life – for Rome Opera.
Review: Carnaval Vivaldi – Balletto di Roma’s beautiful but flimsy carnival
Chiara Ameglio’s hour-long work for Balletto di Roma looks gorgeous and begins intriguingly, but lacks momentum and originality.
Casa Verdi documentary Viva Verdi! has its European premiere at Parma’s Festival Verdi
Yvonne Russo and Christine La Monte present Viva Verdi!, their film about Casa Verdi, at a free screening in Parma on 11 October, then meet the audience.


















