The Royal Ballet – complete 2026-2027 Season
The complete presentation, calendar and production details of the full Royal Ballet 2026-2027 Season.
Ballet Black
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Review: Ballet Black’s 25th Anniversary – a timely, powerful, inspiring, honest show of dance
Lucía Piquero sees Ballet Black celebrating its 25th anniversary – these dancers are powerful people, powerful presences, honest and human… We cannot ask for more in the world of dance.
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Review: Ballet Black’s Shadows – More of this please!
Lucía Piquero sees Ballet Black’s double bill Shadows, by female choreographers Cassa Pancho and US-based choreographer Chanel DaSilvas.
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Review: Black History Month Draft Works at The Royal Opera House – the future is certainly looking bright
Lily Hyde sees Black History Month Draft Works at The Royal Opera House curated by Marcelino Sambé with the work of five Black female choreographers.
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2024 National Dance Awards announced in London
The Winners of the 2024 National Dance Awards were announced at a ceremony at the Barbican Centre in London. It is the 25th anniversary of the Awards.
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Review: Ballet Black’s Heroes at the Royal Opera House – “a joyous event ”
Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel sees Ballet Black’s Heroes at the Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House – I can’t rave about this double bill, but this was a joyous event, nonetheless.
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Review: Legacy – a ‘refreshingly unusual’ gala at the Royal Opera House celebrating Black and Brown excellence in ballet
Graham Watts sees Legacy at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre with “exceptionally gifted black and brown dancers”.
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Cassa Pancho’s Ballet Black returns to the Royal Opera House
In its 22nd year, Ballet Black returns to London in November with new work, Ballet Black: HEROES, from choreographers Mthuthuzeli November and Sophie Laplane.
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Review: London City Ballet’s Resurgence – energising and optimistic, sensitive yet bold
London City Ballet’s London debut – LCB seems to have struck upon a delicate equilibrium here – one that honours its past without being weighed down by it.
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[Review] Ballet Black double bill – If At First and The Waiting Game
Jonathan Gray sees Ballet Black’s double bill – If At First and The Waiting Game – “exceptional dancers, vivid, full of personality and strong technique”
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Nominations for the 24th National Dance Awards – #NDA24
The Dance Section of the UK Critics’ Circle announces its short-listed nominations for the National Dance Awards (#NDA24).
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[Review] The Royal Ballet’s Festival of New Choreography – New Works
Jonathan Gray sees The Royal Ballet’s New Works, the main stage contribution to the company’s Festival of New Choreography.
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[Review] Ballet Black’s ‘Nina Simone: By Whatever Means’ – Playing the Right Notes
Ballet Black at the Linbury Theatre with rising stars Mthuthuzeli November, choreographer, and Isabela Coracy who plays singer-songwriter Nina Simone.
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London’s Coronet Theatre – international season of dance with 5 UK or World premieres
This Autumn, London’s Coronet Theatre presents 5 UK or World premieres in a season of dance from Korea, France, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, Spain and the UK.
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[Review] Ballet Black’s NINA: By Whatever Means and Then or Now
Jonathan Gray sees Ballet Black’s Pioneer programme in London: “a riveting performance from Isabel Coracy… a compelling portrait of a compelling artist.”
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Dance 2022 – Our critic looks at a year of dance in London
Guest author Matthew Paluch looks at some highlights of dance 2022 in London
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[Review] Men in Motion: the male dance spectacular still delivers, ten years on
Ivan Putrov’s Men in Motion celebrates its tenth anniversary at the London Coliseum with an international cast of male dancers.
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[Review] Ballet Black celebrates its 20th anniversary at the Royal Opera House
Guest author Matthew Paluch sees Cassa Pancho’s Ballet Black celebrating its 20th anniversary with ‘Say it Loud’ and ‘Black Sun’.
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[Review] Fabula Collective’s MOMENTUM at Sadler’s Wells: Daring. Unstoppable.
Fabula Collective’s MOMENTUM at Sadler’s Wells presented 7 new works with Associate Artists James Pett and Travis Clausen-Knight and guests including Mara Galeazzi.
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Male ballet stars line up for Men in Motion’s 10th anniversary show
This autumn, Men in Motion celebrates its 10th anniversary with a one-off performance at the London Coliseum on Sunday 6 November.
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news | dance | music & opera
Royal Opera House Ballet and Opera season 2022-2023 in brief
The Royal Opera House’s Opera and Ballet programming for 2022-2023 with new productions and world premieres.
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Online and studio masterclasses with artists of The Royal Ballet and Ballet Black
Online and in studio ballet masterclasses with artists of The Royal Ballet and Ballet Black: Parente, Nuñez, Campbell, Harrison, Calvert, Alves, Muntagirov.
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The Royal Opera House 2021-2022 ballet and dance season
The Royal Ballet presents 3 world premieres: Wayne McGregor’s The Dante Project, Christopher Wheeldon’s Like Water for Chocolate and a new work by Kyle Abraham
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dance | news | obituaries
British choreographer Liam Scarlett has died at 35
Tributes to one of the most satisfying choreographers of his generation, Liam Scarlett, are flooding social media after the announcement of his death.
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The Royal Ballet announces 2021-2022 season, the first since 2019
The Royal Ballet has announced early plans for its 2021-2022 season including three world premieres.
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Dancing Times, the world’s oldest dance magazine, celebrates 110 years
1910 saw George V ascend to the throne, the trial and execution of Dr Crippen, the publication of E M Forster’s Howard’s End and the birth of Alice Marks, later Alicia Markova, the country’s first prima ballerina. 1910 was also the year that Phillip J S Richardson founded Dancing Times – it was the first independent magazine devoted solely to dance
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Dancing Times, February edition – including Gramilano’s Danza in Italia column with La Scala’s new Nutcracker
Cover girl for the February edition of Dancing Times is Ballet Black‘s Isabela Coracy, photographed by Angela Zaremba, who is the Dancer of the Month. It was announced recently that Ballet Black will be collaborating with Birmingham Royal Ballet during its next season. Editor Jonathan Gray interviews Northern Ballet‘s Javier Torres, Nicola Rayner meets Bonnie Langford who is in 9…
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Birmingham Royal Ballet announces its 2019/20 Season
10 productions, 11 venues, 127 performances, including first time collaborations with Ballet Black and newly appointed Director Carlos Acosta. For the first time in the history of Birmingham Royal Ballet, the season has been created in partnership with leaders from across the world of dance, including Ballet Black and Birmingham Royal Ballet’s newly appointed Director…
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‘Ballet Bronze’ and ‘Ballet Brown’ – Freed announces pointe shoes for dancers of colour
Two important tweets today announced a new product that thousands of dancers have been waiting for for years – pointe shoes in ‘Ballet Bronze’ and ‘Ballet Brown’. Traditional pink shoes, while flattering for white skin, ruin the line of a darker-skinned dancer. The good thing too, is that one of the most prestigious ballet shoe…
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Photo Album: first look at The Royal Ballet’s triple bill by Tharp, Pita and Shechter
New work is as central to the repertory of The Royal Ballet as revivals of the classics. For Director of The Royal Ballet Kevin O’Hare, contemporary choreographers and dancers are ‘creating the classics of the 21st century’. In this mixed programme, O’Hare invites two choreographers to create new works for the Company – one making…
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