[Review] Acosta Danza’s Spectrum – endless commitment, and energy for eternity
Acosta Danza brings its Spectrum programme to the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre – some weak choreography but exceptional dancers.
Birmingham Royal Ballet
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Birmingham Royal Ballet announces launch of BRB2, its new touring company
BRB2 is a new initiative where Birmingham Royal Ballet seeks out some of the best young ballet graduates from around the world to join a two-year performance programme.
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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] Birmingham Royal Ballet triple bill ‘Into the Music’
Guest author Matthew Paluch sees the Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Into the Music: Kylián’s Forgotten Land; Runacre-Temple’s Hotel; Scholz’s The Seventh Symphony.
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The Royal Ballet School to hold auditions around the world
The Royal Ballet School will open applications for its full-time and Mid, Senior and Advanced Associate training programmes on Monday 5 September.
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United Ukrainian Ballet performs Ratmansky and Kylián
The United Ukrainian Ballet will perform Alexei Ratmansky’s new ‘Ukrainian’ Giselle in the Netherlands and at the London Coliseum.
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Birmingham Royal Ballet announces its 2022-2023 Season
Birmingham Royal Ballet has announced its programme plans from May 2022 until March 2023.
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Royal Ballet stars for the Athelhampton Ballet Charity Gala 2021
Royal Ballet First Soloist Meaghan Grace Hinkis has assembled a starry line-up of Royal Ballet colleagues for the second Athelhampton Ballet Charity Gala
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Birmingham Royal Ballet announces live performances with two world premieres
Birmingham Royal Ballet has announced a triple bill and performances of an adapted production of David Bintley’s Cinderella for audiences this June.
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Birmingham Royal Ballet and Carlos Acosta’s short film: Empty Stage
Birmingham Royal Ballet continues to find creative ways of keeping audiences entertained with Carlos Acosta’s digital commission: Empty Stage.
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Marion Tait to step down as Assistant Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet
Marion Tait will step down from her role as Assistant Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet on 31 December 2020. She will continue working, part time, with Birmingham Royal Ballet family from January, rehearsing and coaching the company dancers.
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UK government’s £250 million for arts organisations
A £250 million ‘bailout’ fund will save “1,385 theatres, galleries, performance groups, arts organisations, museums and local venues facing the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and ensure they have a sustainable future”, claims the UK government.
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Arise Sir David – former Director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet, David Bintley, has been given a Knighthood
Former Director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet, David Bintley, has been given a Knighthood in Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth ll’s New Year’s Honours List, for services to dance. David Bintley succeeded Sir Peter Wright as Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet in 1995. By that time, Sir Peter had settled the Company (formerly Sadler’s Wells Royal…
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Photo Album of Two Giselles: English National Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet
There’s a spate of Giselles about at the moment, radical reinventions of the 1841 ballet from Akram Khan for English National Ballet, and South African choreographer Dada Masilo, drawing on modern class and gender politics to rewrite the Romantic heroine for our times. But if you prefer your Giselle with original spirit intact, then Birmingham Royal Ballet is…
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David Bintley announces promotions at Birmingham Royal Ballet for the last time
Brandon Lawrence has been promoted from First Soloist to Principal at Birmingham Royal Ballet, David Bintley has announced. The past weekend has seen enthusiastic applause for performances of one of David Bintley’s signature works, Hobson’s Choice, which closed the 2018-19 season at London’s Sadler’s Wells and marked the company’s final performances with Bintley as Director. Before the final…
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Ruth Brill, Birmingham Royal Ballet’s dancer/choreographer, moves on
Ahead of performances of her bold new take on the fable of Peter and the Wolf as part of the [Un]leashed triple bill, Birmingham Royal Ballet has announced that First Artist Ruth Brill will be taking the next step in her choreographic journey at the end of this season. Brill will leave the Company to concentrate on her…
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Photo Album: Backstage at Beauty and the Beast – Birmingham Royal Ballet
Beauty and the Beast In David Bintley‘s glorious Gothic ballet, witness transformations, wild waltzes, soaring birds and a relationship between Belle and the Beast that is at first terrifying, but ultimately serene and beautiful. Dasa Wharton takes her camera backstage to see the preparations and the view from the wings. Belle – Yvette Knight The…
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Photo Album: Beauty and the Beast – Birmingham Royal Ballet 2019
Beauty and the Beast – Birmingham Royal Ballet A cruel Prince, cursed to spend the rest of his life living in a fantastical castle with the animals he callously hunted, finds salvation in the heart of a beautiful girl. Caught stealing a single rose, Belle’s desperate father exchanges his youngest daughter’s freedom for his own life….
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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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Carlos Acosta appointed as new Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet
Birmingham Royal Ballet has announced that Carlos Acosta been appointed as its new Director. He will take up his post in January 2020. The appointment follows an open competition and extensive international search by Birmingham Royal Ballet Board, supported by an expert panel of leading figures in the dance world. It follows the news earlier…
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Photo Album: In the Upper Room and Embrace with Birmingham Royal Ballet
In the Upper Room and Embrace were part of a triple-bill programme by Birmingham Royal Ballet called Polarity & Proximity. Embrace, a new ballet commissioned from choreographer George Williamson as part of Ballet Now, Birmingham Royal Ballet‘s five-year programme, run in conjunction with Sadler’s Wells, to develop choreographers, composers and designers to create new and innovative works for the world stage….
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James Hobley, Britain’s Got Talent’s autistic dancer, now 19 leaves ENB’s school to join Scottish Ballet
James Hobley, first known to the general public as a Britain’s Got Talent finalist in 2011, has graduated from English National Ballet School and has a contract to start his professional career with Scottish Ballet. I wrote about his story three years ago, because it is extraordinary and reads like a fable. Here is the…
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Lead Principal Aaron Robison to leave English National Ballet after one season
Lead Principal Aaron Robison has decided to leave English National Ballet at the end of the current season. Robison only joined English National Ballet in June last year and will be returning to San Francisco Ballet where he danced as a Principal from 2016-2017, prior to joining ENB. Before that he danced with Houston Ballet,…
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Tributes to choreographer Dame Gillian Lynne flood in from the worlds of musicals and ballet
A tweet from Peter Land on Dame Gillian Lynne’s account on Sunday evening, 1 July, announced that the beloved choreographer had died – she was 92: Rest In Peace my darling Gillie. I am heartbroken to write that Dame Gillian Lynne DBE & my dearest wife & friend & love for 40 years passed away…
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Former Royal Ballet principal Miyako Yoshida becomes Artistic Director of New National Ballet Tokyo
Miyako Yoshida, former Principal Dancer with The Royal Ballet, has been appointed Artistic Director of the New National Ballet Tokyo. The Ballet Company is part of Tokyo’s New National Theatre, Japan’s most prestigious centre for the performing arts, taking in opera, ballet, contemporary dance and drama. This season celebrates its 20th anniversary. Yoshida will be the…
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Birmingham Royal Ballet dancers Delia Mathews and Brandon Lawrence on dancing The Sleeping Beauty
Birmingham Royal Ballet‘s run of The Sleeping Beauty performances is coming to end, with the final performances being given this week at Plymouth’s Theatre Royal. The very last performance features Delia Mathews and Brandon Lawrence. Dasa Wharton went to photograph a stage rehearsal and I talked to them about the dancing this most famous of…
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Interview with The Royal Ballet’s hot couple: Francesca Hayward and Alexander Campbell
Francesca Hayward and Alexander Campbell are quickly becoming The Royal Ballet‘s ‘couple to see’. After recent successes dancing Clara and the Nutcracker, as well as the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Prince, over the Christmas season, they have just debuted in Giselle. An important moment in the career of any dancer. The Guardian said that…
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Finalists of English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer competition at the London Coliseum in June
On Monday 11 June 2018, English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer competition will be held at the London Coliseum for the first time. Emerging Dancer is a key part of English National Ballet’s commitment to developing and nurturing talent within the company and through this annual event, English National Ballet recognises the excellence of its artists. Six of the company’s most…
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Photo album: Birmingham Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker
Dasa Wharton went to photograph for Gramilano the latest outing of Birmingham Royal Ballet‘s The Nutcracker – as stunning as ever! Artists of the Birmingham Royal Ballet, featuring: Miki Mizutani as The Sugar Plum Fairy Mathias Dingman as The Prince Valentin Olovyannikov as Drosselmeyer Laura Day as Clara Alys Shee as The Snow Fairy Beatrice Parma as The Rose Fairy CHOREOGRAPHY…
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