Review: BalletBoyz’s 25th anniversary show, Still Pointless – lacking evolution
Lily Hyde sees BalleyBoyz’s ‘Still Pointless’ programme, admiring the company’s ten accomplished dancers, but finds some works… pointless?
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BalletBoyz: Still Pointless At 25 – celebrating a quarter century on stage and screen
25 years after BalletBoyz presented its debut performance ‘Pointless’, the company is back with ‘Still Pointless’ at Sadler’s Wells.
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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 to Broadway – it’s all-Wheeldon at The Royal Ballet
Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel sees Ballet to Broadway, The Royal Ballet’s programme of four Christopher Wheeldon works.
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Pete Townshend’s Quadrophenia, a Mod Ballet, tours UK from May
Pete Townshend’s Quadrophenia: first an album for The Who, then a film, and now a ballet. It reaches Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London on 24 June.
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Interview: Choreographer Carlos Pons Guerra on Mariposa – a Queer Tragedy inspired by Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
Choreographer Carlos Pons Guerra talks to Paul Arrowsmith ahead of the UK tour of Mariposa – “Adapting opera into non-verbal dance was an exciting, but certainly difficult.”
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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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Sadler’s Wells in London has announced seven new Associate Artists
Sadler’s Wells has announced seven new Associate Artists who represent a wide range of dance styles and are among the most exciting talents working in dance today.
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[Interview] London City Ballet reborn – talking with its new director, Christopher Marney
London City Ballet returns to theatres next year, directed by Christopher Carney, former artistic director of Joffrey Ballet Studio Company of Chicago.
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[Interview] Alexander Campbell on ‘The Limit’ – a new work for The Royal Ballet
“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.
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The BalletBoyz return to London with an ambitious project: England on Fire
The BalletBoyz return to the stage this winter with ‘England on Fire’ at Sadler’s Wells from Wednesday 8 – Saturday 11 November 2023.
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[Interview] The Collected Mr McNicol – talking to choreographer Andrew McNicol
Choreographer Andrew McNicol talks about his McNicol Ballet Collective UK tour and his flourishing career.
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Marquee TV to stream London’s Dance for Ukraine gala
Marquee TV will stream Dance for Ukraine, the charity gala performed at the London Coliseum on 19 March. It will be available to view from 14 – 24 April 2022.
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Marquee TV’s new streamed dance films include Acosta Danza and BalletBoyz
Marquee TV has announced a line up of new streamed dance films on its platform including works by Acosta Danza and BalletBoyz.
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Ballet treats to view online during the holidays
Dance programming for the festive period from companies all over the world are many: free, subscription and pay-per-view. Here are some that have caught my eye.
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English National Ballet School’s Winter Showcase available worldwide
English National Ballet School has announced that its Winter Showcase will premiere online (via its website, YouTube and Facebook channels) from Monday 21 December at 7.30pm GMT and be available for 30 days after that.
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A look at the English National Ballet School’s Summer Performance 2020
Courageously, the English National Ballet School has worked with its students to produce new works – marvellously put together with some impressive editing by BalletBoyz and Manilla Productions – to create an end of year show, showcase, and celebration. The resulting film is given a bonus lift by Alessandra Ferri wishing the students good luck for their futures and adding some positive words that they can carry with them – indeed, that we can all carry – in this odd time.
Each of the three years of the school(16 to 19-year-old students) has worked with a different choreographer via Zoom. Then each student has
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Royal Ballet ballerina stages starry gala in memory of her mother
Emma Maguire is a Soloist of The Royal Ballet. She lost her mother, Ann, a teacher, when she was stabbed to death in front of her class by a 15-year-old pupil at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds. Her murder, which shocked the entire UK, was in 2014. Emma and her family have admirably turned…
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Deloitte Ignite 2014: The Royal Ballet’s month-long festival of dance, music and art
The month-long contemporary arts festival Deloitte Ignite 2014 is based on the theme of myth and this year is curated by The Royal Ballet and The National Gallery’s Dr Minna Moore Ede, who said, At the National Gallery we try and bring paintings to life, but Deloitte Ignite has been an incredible opportunity to create…
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In and Out: Bolle, Gomes, Stiefel – how easy is it to be an openly gay ballet dancer?
When Roberto Bolle popped out and in of the closet four years ago internet forums and gossip rags foamed at the mouth. Openly gay ballet dancers, like openly gay actors and singers, are few and far between. In 2005, after the British Navy introduced an advertising campaign aimed at recruiting gay men, Colin Richardson wrote in…
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Mara Galeazzi’s Dancing for the Children Gala 2011 at Sadler’s Wells on 3 April
The Royal Ballet Principal Mara Galeazzi‘s Gala 2011 is part of a unique initiative, Dancing For The Children, which has this year teamed up with Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity. Gala for Africa 2011 is a special evening of dance, world premieres, music and song with a star-studded line-up that includes Mara Galeazzi and and Principal dancers of The…
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Ballet Boyz: the next generation – meet The Talent
It’s more than 10 years since Michael Nunn and William Trevitt sensationally left the Royal Ballet – and the Ballet Boyz, as the pair became known, are Boyz no more. Now in their early forties, Nunn and Trevitt are passing their experience on to the fledgling dancers who make up their cheekily named new troupe,…
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