Christopher Wheeldon receives the RAD’s Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award
The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) has presented its highest honour, the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award, to choreographer Christopher Wheeldon OBE.
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Interview: León and Lightfoot at The Royal Ballet – life, age, and change… a very beautiful message
Graham Spicer talked with choreographers Sol León and Paul Lightfoot – León and Lightfoot – after the opening night of their new double bill for The Royal Ballet.
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Review: Wayne McGregor’s Alchemies – changing expectations at The Royal Ballet
Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel sees Wayne McGregor: Alchemies with The Royal Ballet – This exhilarating triple bill is the very essence of alchemies of curiosity: absorbing, engaging, daring.
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Review: PCK Dance’s Into the Light – the celebrity pairing of James Pett and Travis Clausen-Knight
Graham Watts sees James Pett and Travis Clausen-Knight with Isabelle Evans – a rare opportunity to see them in a full-length show.
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Review: Matthew Ball is riveting in The Royal Ballet’s Mayerling
Jonathan Gray sees a myriad of fine performances on Mayerling’s opening night, but none finer than Matthew Ball in Laura Morera’s detailed revival for The Royal Ballet.
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Royal Ballet’s Melissa Hamilton presents A Night of Ballet
Melissa Hamilton will curate a Night of Ballet this summer at Grange Park Opera, produced by Hamilton Christou Productions.
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Review: Covent Garden Choreographics with New English Ballet Theatre
Lily Hyde sees New English Ballet Theatre at Royal Ballet & Opera in Covent Garden Choreographics – a company whose ambitions far outpace its resources.
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Review: The Royal Ballet’s Perspectives with Against the Tide, a world premiere from Cathy Marston
Jonathan Gray sees The Royal Ballet in a triple bill with works by George Balanchine, Justin Peck, and a world premiere from Cathy Marston: Against the Tide.
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Review: Gala De Danza in London – a showcase full of new ideas
Graham Watts sees Gala De Danza – a peculiar venue for an unusual gala, which despite the title was much more than dance.
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Interview with Christina Lyon on her Gala de Danza in London – bold, generous, and built on excellence.
Christina Lyon’s Gala de Danza comes to London. The international dance, music, and art festival will have its London premiere with three performances on Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 June at Central Hall Westminster.
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Interview: talking to Melissa Hamilton, The Royal Ballet’s new principal dancer
Royal Ballet principal dancer Melissa Hamilton talks about her unique path to the top of her profession, her production company, and her colleagues.
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Review: The Royal Ballet in Balanchine – Three Signature Works, Serenade / Prodigal Son / Symphony in C
Jonathan Gray sees The Royal Ballet’s new Balanchine triple bill, Three Signature Works – competent, but rarely exciting.
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The Royal Ballet promotes Melissa Hamilton to Principal Dancer
Melissa Hamilton has been promoted to Principal Dancer, the highest rank in The Royal Ballet, taking effect from 1 January 2025.
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Review: Wayne McGregor’s Maddaddam – a beautiful, missed opportunity
Lucía Piquero Álvarez sees the Royal Ballet in McGregor’s Maddaddam – “it fails to achieve the emotionally charged embodied power of some of his other work”.
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[Review] Royal Ballet’s ‘The Winter’s Tale’ – “a ballet of remarkable dramatic power”
The Winter’s Tale will, I predict, be the ballet for which Wheeldon will be best remembered in the future.
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[Review] MacMillan Celebrated – The Royal Ballet shows the choreographer fizzing with ideas
Jonathan Gray sees The Royal Ballet’s MacMillan Celebrated (Danses concertantes, Different Drummer, Requiem) showing a versatile and compelling creative force.
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The Royal Ballet’s Melissa Hamilton and husband launch Hamilton Christou Productions
The Royal Ballet’s Melissa Hamilton and the businessman and property developer Michael Christou, have announced the launch of Hamilton Christou Productions.
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Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon returns to The Royal Ballet for its 50th Anniversary
The Royal Ballet presents MacMillan’s Manon, 50 years since its 1974 premiere, and 100 years since the death of its designer Nicholas Georgiadis.
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[Review] The Royal Ballet in Wayne McGregor’s The Dante Project – “a masterpiece”
McGregor’s stellar group capture the spirit of Dante as The Royal Ballet’s The Dante Project returns for the first time since its 2021 premiere.
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[Review] Royal Ballet triple bill: Untitled, 2023, Corybantic Games, Anastasia Act III
Review and photo album of The Royal Ballet’s triple bill with a new Wayne McGregor premiere: “Untitled, 2023”, Wheeldon and MacMillan.
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Royal Ballet’s three one-act ballets – Wayne McGregor (world premiere) | Wheeldon | MacMillan
This June, The Royal Ballet presents a programme of one-act ballets featuring works by Kenneth MacMillan, Wayne McGregor, and Christopher Wheeldon.
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[Review] The Royal Ballet: A Diamond Celebration – the importance of the past, present, and future
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.
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Athelhampton House Gala: Stars of The Royal Ballet dance in charity gala this weekend
10 and 11 September sees the return of the Athelhampton House Gala in Dorset, UK, with Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet dancers.
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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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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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[Photo Album] Royal Ballet’s Balanchine and Robbins programme
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.
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[Photo Album] The Royal Ballet: Back on Stage – tonight and for 30 days
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.
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Royal Opera House announces live performance broadcasts during November lockdown
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.
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La Scala’s Timofej Andrijashenko to guest as Romeo with The Royal Ballet
La Scala Principal Dancer Timofej Andrijashenko will dance Romeo at The Royal Opera House in London on 27 April and 4 May alongside Melissa Hamilton. The director of The Royal Ballet, Kevin O’Hare, was present at La Scala’s opening of Wayne McGregor‘s ballet Woolf Works earlier this month on 7 April and saw Andrijashenko dancing…
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Viviana Durante, Meow Meow and Laura Morera recreate MacMillan’s Seven Deadly Sins
Wilton’s Music Hall’s summer programming includes Kenneth MacMillan‘s version of Kurt Weill-Bertolt Brecht’s Seven Deadly Sins. It is produced and mounted by former Royal Ballet principal dancer Viviana Durante with Meow Meow and Laura Morera among the cast. Wilton’s Music Hall in London is the oldest grand music hall in the world and in 2015…
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