Royal Ballet casting for autumn performances 2023 with role debuts
The Royal Ballet casting for main roles is announced for all performances from 30 September 2023 until 13 January 2024.
Lauren Cuthbertson
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Tributes to the great ballerina Lynn Seymour who has died at 83
Lynn Seymour died on 7 March 2023 at the age of 83, on the eve of her 84th birthday. Gramilano collected some tributes to the great dancer.
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[Interview] Royal Ballet’s Fumi Kaneko on her upcoming debut in Mayerling
The Royal Ballet’s principal dancer Fumi Kaneko talks about preparing for her debut as Countess Marie Larisch in Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling.
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Royal Opera House dance and opera initiatives for Ukraine
Today, the Royal Opera House unveiled fundraising initiatives in support of the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.
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A plethora of Swan Lake debuts at the Royal Opera House
Liam Scarlett’s Swan Lake returns to The Royal Opera House stage in March for 24 performances with nine dancers debuting in the lead roles.
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Casting for The Royal Ballet Romeo and Juliet opening the 2021-2022 Season
The Royal Ballet season opens with MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet on Tuesday 5 October – the first three-act ballet since March 2020.
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UK’s National Dance Awards announced
This year’s National Dance Awards were announced yesterday at a streamed event from Cervantes Theatre in London.
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Two ballet dancers on returning to the stage and dancers’ mental health
Dancers are emerging after lockdown: some are lucky to have performed, many haven’t, and questions about dancers’ mental health have become paramount.
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Nominees for the UK’s National Dance Awards 2021 are announced
The nominees for the 21st National Dance Awards have been announced by the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle.
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World Ballet Festival, Denmark, announces 2021 programme
Xander Parish, Lauren Cuthbertson, Marcelino Sambé, Federico Bonelli, Yasmine Naghdi, Marian Walter and Ida Praetorius will dance at this year’s festival.
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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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The Royal Ballet cancels its live stream of The Nutcracker
Following London’s move to Tier 4 status, The Royal Ballet has decided to cancel its stream of The Nutcracker on Tuesday 22 December.
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Interviews with 3 Royal Ballet principals: Nuñez, Cuthbertson, Naghdi
Interviews with 3 Royal Ballet principals: Nuñez, Cuthbertson, Naghdi. While in lockdown I talked to these three jewels in The Royal Ballet’s crown. Using the luxury of not having print column inches to respect, we were able to chat, and chat… and chat.
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The Royal Opera House unveils its programme for live audiences this autumn
The Royal Opera House has announced “an exciting, wide-ranging new line-up” for its autumn programme.
For the first time, performances will be accessible online for a global audience through live streams and for socially distanced audiences at Covent Garden. In a “global first” there will be a new opera in hyper-reality, alongside repertory favourites from both artistic companies.
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Interview: The Royal Ballet’s Yasmine Naghdi – a time to reflect
I’ve interviewed The Royal Ballet’s principal ballerina Yasmine Naghdi several times over the past five years. The first time, she was a soloist and preparing to debut as Juliet with Matthew Ball as Romeo. The last time was 18-months ago, a few months after her debut in Swan Lake, a role she was scheduled to reprise this spring, but then The Royal Opera House closed its doors.
She is currently on holiday in my adopted homeland, Italy. However, while I’m in the north by the Ligurian Sea, Yasmine and her Italian boyfriend are in Puglia, the heel of Italy’s boot. I spoke to her via Skype in early May and asked her whether she was with him in lockdown.
“We’re in quarantine in our flat. I think when we last spoke, it must have been early on in our relationship. We’re now coming up to two years together
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Interview with The Royal Ballet’s Lauren Cuthbertson – so much passion
On 14 March 2020, The Royal Ballet’s principal dancer Lauren Cuthbertson was dancing Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty on the stage of the Mariinsky Theatre… two days later a message arrived: The Royal Opera House was closing.
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Free reading from Dancing Times – the complete archive is available from 2000
Dancing Times has opened up the last 20 years of its archives to all until 7 April. The monthly magazine has its think pieces, reviews, articles about technique, dance’s past and present, but I always head first to the interviews. Here are some tidbits I’ve come across…
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Photo Album: Royal Ballet first night with Dances at a Gathering and The Cellist
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…
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Photos and full programme of Margot Fonteyn, A Celebration with The Royal Ballet
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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The Royal Ballet in Japan and Los Angeles – dates and casting
The Royal Ballet tours to Japan and Los Angeles this summer, presenting signature work from the Company’s repertory, a world premiere by Wayne McGregor and community engagement projects. Tokyo, Bunka Kaikan Carlos Acosta‘s Don Quixote, 21 – 26 June Yokohama, Kanagawa Kenwin Hall Royal Ballet Gala, 29 – 30 June Los Angeles, The Music Center…
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Photo Album: first look at tonight’s premiere of Medusa with The Royal Ballet
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui new work, Medusa, opens at The Royal Ballet this evening, together with revivals of Christopher Wheeldon’s Within the Golden Hour and Crystal Pite‘s ballet exploring the refugee crisis, Flight Pattern. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Medusa is his first work for The Royal Ballet. Medusa Choreography: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Music: Henry Purcell Electronic music:…
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Dancing Times, May edition – including Gramilano’s Danza in Italia column reviewing world premieres of Winterreise and Carmen
Dancing Times’ May issue is out now, with a glorious cover featuring Margot Fonteyn – the only dancer to be given the title prima ballerina assoluta by The Royal Ballet – who was born 100 years ago on 18 May. The magazine celebrates the centenary of Fonteyn’s birth with articles by The Royal Ballet’s director…
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Marianela Nuñez dances to Nina Simone singing I’m Feeling Good with choreography by Will Tuckett
Three-and-a-half delightful minutes with Royal Ballet Principal Marianela Nuñez in a piece choreographed by Will Tuckett called Nela. More delightful again is that it is set to Nina Simone’s version of Feeling Good which, although it feels like an American blues classic, was written by English composers Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse for their musical The…
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Photo album: First photos of The Royal Ballet opening night of Asphodel Meadows and The Two Pigeons
Ballets by Founder Choreographer Frederick Ashton and Royal Ballet Artist in Residence Liam Scarlett share the stage in this mixed programme with music by Messager and Poulenc. The Two Pigeons 18 January—13 February 2019 “Young love triumphs over misunderstandings and mistakes in Frederick Ashton’s nostalgic and humorous ballet.” Performers A Young Girl – Lauren Cuthbertson…
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Daniel McCormick is announced winner of English National Ballet’s 2018 Emerging Dancer Award
Daniel McCormick was announced as winner of English National Ballet’s 2018 Emerging Dancer Award last night. Having performed a pas de deux from Le Corsaire, with partner Francesca Velicu, and Leatherwing Bat, a solo by Trey McIntyre, Artistic Director of English National Ballet, Tamara Rojo, announced his win on stage at the London Coliseum, which was livestreamed to audiences across the world….
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Sneak peek at tonight’s MacMillan programme with The Royal Ballet in The Judas Tree and English National Ballet in Song of the Earth
The Royal Ballet and English National Ballet present two of Kenneth MacMillan‘s most complex and important works, in the second programme of Kenneth MacMillan: a National Celebration. Two nights only – tonight, 24 October (Lauren Cuthbertson, Thiago Soares, Edward Watson, Reece Clarke and Artists of the two companies), and 1 November (Melissa Hamilton, Bennet Gartside, Matthew Ball, Calvin Richardson). British…
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Yanowsky’s Back! Making a comeback faster than Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra famously retired in 1970 only to make a comeback three years later, after which he continued to sing into the ’90s. Former Royal Ballet Principal Zenaida Yanowsky is making a faster comeback than Ol’ Blue Eyes. After 23 years with The Royal Ballet, Zenaida Yanowsky gave her final curtain call on the Covent…
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Sergei Polunin returns to dance with Natalia Osipova at The Royal Ballet
Former Royal Ballet Principal Sergei Polunin will partner Natalia Osipova in June, when he returns to dance in Frederick Ashton‘s Marguerite and Armand. Other casting sees another former Royal Ballet Principal, Alessandra Ferri, together with her fellow Italian Federico Bonelli, and the third Italian in the lineup is Roberto Bolle who will be partnering Zenaida…
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Prix de Lausanne 2017 prize winners – with photos
A large audience attended the Prix de Lausanne finals both at Théâtre de Beaulieu and online. Eight young dancers have been awarded a scholarship allowing them to enter one of the 68 partner schools and companies of the competition. Promising dancers from all over the world competed to arrive in the final 20, and the names were announced…
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Nureyev’s bum and Fonteyn’s acquired charm… Peter Wright talks (as always) openly
Peter Wright‘s excellent autobiography (written with Paul Arrowsmith) contains loads of juicy titbits, and there is something about being 90 that apparently frees you up and permits you saw whatever you like, which at 50 you might have thought twice about… though maybe Wright wouldn’t have blinked an eyelid about saying exactly what was on his…
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