The Fonteyn 2025 – RAD’s The Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition, is coming to São Paulo, Brazil for the first time (11-19 October 2025).
Joe Powell-Main, the freelance dancer and choreographer “on wheels and crutches”, has begun a ‘GOFUNDME’ project to support his new company, JPM Productions.
One third of UK schools are not teaching dance even though dance is part of the United Kingdom’s national curriculum. RAD proposes Battle: Break-It-Down.
Matthew Paluch sees The Margot Fonteyn Ballet Competition: “seeing young people flourish because of their own hard work and dedication will never tire.”
Director of The Royal Ballet, Kevin O’Hare, has announced the promotions and the joiners and leavers for The Royal Ballet’s 2024/25 Season.
The Royal Ballet 2024-2025 – I talked with Royal Ballet director Kevin O’Hare about the programming, new initiatives, tradition… and a new name!
The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) has announced that Alexander Campbell will leave The Royal Ballet to take up its Artistic Directorship.
Empower in Motion: A Ballet Inclusive, a fundraising event, brought out the best of people, leaving its audience hopeful in times of conflict and uncertainty.
Jann Parry – author of the Kenneth MacMillan biography “Different Drummer: The Life of Kenneth MacMillan” – comments on Natalia Osipova’s Manon and directing ballet for film.
Manon has turned 50! Well actually 293… but what better way to celebrate a big birthday than a season of shows at your favourite venue – the Royal Opera House.
The Royal Ballet presents MacMillan’s Manon, 50 years since its 1974 premiere, and 100 years since the death of its designer Nicholas Georgiadis.
Jann Parry sees The Limit with The Royal Ballet’s Francesca Hayward and Alexander Campbell – “marvellous movers, but the production’s premise is perverse.”
“The average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. But what if there were a limit?” asks the new dance work from The Royal Ballet.
The Royal Ballet casting for main roles is announced for all performances from 30 September 2023 until 13 January 2024.
Guest author Matthew Paluch looks at celebrating 60 years of The Friends of Covent Garden in a varied programme for The Royal Ballet: A Diamond Celebration.
The Royal Ballet season opens with MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet on Tuesday 5 October – the first three-act ballet since March 2020.
Online and in studio ballet masterclasses with artists of The Royal Ballet and Ballet Black: Parente, Nuñez, Campbell, Harrison, Calvert, Alves, Muntagirov.
This year’s National Dance Awards were announced yesterday at a streamed event from Cervantes Theatre in London.
Tonight, Friday 4 June, the Royal Ballet opens a new evening of dance dedicated to George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins with Apollo, the Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, and Dances at a Gathering.
The Royal Opera House has announced its biggest ever programme of streaming and digital content, across a large range of platforms, “brought straight from our house to your house” over the Christmas period.
A special live-streamed performance tonight, Friday 13 November at 7.30pm GMT of the gala The Royal Ballet: Back on Stage, will be available through The Royal Opera House site for the next 30 days.
The Royal Opera House has announced a series of live performance broadcasts, together with some repertory favourites from both The Royal Ballet and The Royal Opera, throughout the November lockdown period.
World Ballet Day 2020 on 29 October, will be the biggest ever celebration of global dance with 40 dance companies participating in this year’s live streamed event.
The Royal Ballet is Back on Stage, returning for a live-streamed performance from the stage of Covent Garden on Friday 9 October at 7.30pm.
There have been many film montages of dancers, musicians and others from the performing arts, celebrating their art in lockdown, reconnecting with their audience and colleagues via solo performances edited together to form a piece. Many have been upbeat, some funny, but a new video adds a mood that feels truthful after three months of lockdown.
Where We Are is a beautifully produced dance piece coming in at just under three minutes. Anguish dominates, and even if the English National Ballet’s Jeffrey Cirio says, “I’m so hopeful,” he only looks it for a split second. The final utterance of “I’m so…” by The Royal Ballet’s Francesca Hayward leaves the cast of five without words as they wander away from the camera, downcast and perplexed.
First photos of tonight’s opening of a new double bill at The Royal Opera House with Jerome Robbins‘s Dances at a Gathering and Cathy Marston‘s The Cellist. Dances at a Gathering Jerome Robbins’s elegant and elegiac classic forms the first part of the programme. This exercise in pure dance for five couples, set to music…
Francesca Hayward, Principal dancer of The Royal Ballet, has a leading role in the film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s musical Cats, directed by Academy Award winner Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech, Les Misérables, The Danish Girl). The much-criticised film – both positively and negatively, though mostly the latter – has seen praise poured on Hayward who…
Everyone who has followed The Royal Ballet in rehearsal during World Ballet Day or watched the interval clips and interviews during the intervals of the company’s live cinema relays will know Christopher Carr. The Royal Ballet’s Guest Principal Ballet Master isn’t afraid of raising his voice, clapping his hands loudly and stamping the floor with…
After Niv Novak’s slow-motion dance project ‘extension’ in 2017, comes ‘missed nuance’, a similar project with a different look. Dancers from international ballet companies wore designer garments to be captured by exquisite lighting, and state-of-the-art filmmaking technology, to produce a work-of-art that showcases the extreme athleticism of dance, but also its sublime beauty, all in…
Last night, 8 June 2019, The Royal Ballet celebrated the centenary of the birth of its most famous ballerina, Dame Margot Fonteyn, who was born on 18 May 1919. A performance of The Firebird, currently in a triple bill, was followed by a gala of extracts from ballets representing some of Fonteyn’s most celebrated roles….
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