David Ashley and the secrets of a pantomime dame
David Ashley in Dick Whittington, Wyvern Theatre, Swindon I am a three-bun wig, brown-booted, very large, maternal bosom sort of a…
Backstage at the Nutcracker with the English National Ballet
Dancers of English National Ballet as Snowflakes – photo by ASH My first ballet experience was going to see the Nutcracker…
Sarah Lamb on débuting at La Scala in Manon with Claudio Coviello
Sarah Lamb in Manon – photo by Johan Persson, Royal Opera House As has already been reported, the on-off-on-off again tale…
Nikolay Tsiskaridze's first two years at the helm of the Vaganova
Vaganova Academy staff congratulate Nikolai Tsiskaridze on his second anniversary as Director The 28th of October 2015 marked the end of…
My Big Fat Italian Ballet Gala
Ratmansky's Sleeping Beauty in Milan casts its magic spell
Svetlana Zakharova in The Sleeping Beauty – photo by Brescia and Amisano, Teatro alla Scala 2015 Alexei Ratmansky's ‘reconstruction' of The…
The Royal Ballet's new star-crossed lovers: Yasmine Naghdi and Matthew Ball
Yasmine Naghdi and Matthew Ball rehearsing ‘Romeo and Juliet' with Jonathan Cope for The Royal Ballet – photo by Andrej…
Matthew Ball – The Royal Ballet's prince in waiting?
Yasmine Naghdi – the birth of a ballerina
Baryshnikov is extraordinary as Nijinsky in Letter to a Man
Aged fifty, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary, I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. This is…
