Review: The Royal Ballet School Summer Performance – 100 years producing dancers of the very highest calibre
Jonathan Gray sees the Summer Performance, celebrating The Royal Ballet School a century after its formation by Ninette de Valois.
Monica Mason
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Review: McGregor / Maillot / Naharin, an eclectic triple bill at La Scala
Graham Spicer sees La Scala’s thrilling contemporary programme: Wayne McGregor’s Chroma, Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Dov’è la luna and Ohad Naharin’s Minus 16.
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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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Voices of British Ballet’s new podcast and platform to celebrate the history of dance in Britain
Voices of British Ballet, the oral history project that began in 2002, will now be available online with podcasts from its vast library of interviews.
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Interview: Ernst Meisner, new Artistic Director of Dutch National Ballet
Paul Arrowsmith talks to Ernst Meisner who takes over from Ted Brandsen as Artistic Director of Dutch National Ballet in 2026.
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The Fonteyn 2024 – the Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition “an evening, jam-packed with quality dancing”
Matthew Paluch sees The Margot Fonteyn Ballet Competition: “seeing young people flourish because of their own hard work and dedication will never tire.”
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[Review] Yorke Dance Project in California Connections: Three Pioneering Women at The Royal Opera House
Jonathan Gray sees California Connections: Three Pioneering Women with Yorke Dance Project – Isadora, Errand Into the Maze, A Point of Balance.
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[Review] Mosaic International Dance Festival, Dubai
Mosaic International Dance Festival, the “preamble” to a much bigger festival in November 2024 – the ambition is to make Dubai a go-to city for dance.
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The Royal Ballet celebrates Bronislava Nijinska in free livestream
On 18 November, The Royal Ballet will present an extended Insight event to celebrate Bronislava Nijinska that will also be livestreamed on YouTube.
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[Review] Mayerling in London and Paris on 30th anniversary of MacMillan’s death
Guest author Jonathan Gray sees four performances of Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling in London and Paris.
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[Review] Nureyev Legend and Legacy – a programme full of ‘wow wee’ moments
Guest author Matthew Paluch attends London’s starry gala ‘Nureyev Legend and Legacy’.
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Rudolf Nureyev Legend and Legacy – a starry celebration in London
Rudolf Nureyev’s life and career will be celebrated in London at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, which is where Nureyev made his London debut.
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Anna Rose O’Sullivan – meeting the Royal Ballet’s newest star
Royal Ballet principal dancer Anna Rose O’Sullivan talks about her debuts, her partners, coaching, style and being Juliet.
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Countdown to Bayadère – casting and designs for La Scala’s opening
Rudolf Nureyev’s La Bayadère has never been performed by any company other than the Paris Opera Ballet. It opens at La Scala with new designs on 15 December.
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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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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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After 16 years, Thiago Soares leaves as Principal dancer with The Royal Ballet
Thiago Soares becomes Royal Ballet guest Principal for the 2019/20 Season After 16 years with The Royal Ballet, Thiago Soares has decided to make this Season his last as a Principal dancer with the Comapny in order to focus on new projects in dance and the performing arts. He will return as a guest Principal in the…
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The Sleeping Beauty with Marianela Nuñez and Vladislav Lantratov at the Rome Opera Ballet
Jean-Guillaume Bart, former Étoile at the Paris Opera Ballet, created his version of The Sleeping Beauty for the Yacobson Ballet Theatre in St Petersburg in 2016. His POB colleague Eleonora Abbagnato — currently both an Étoile in Paris as well as director of the Rome Opera Ballet — asked him to adapt it for Rome…
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Exclusive photo from Royal Opera House archives to remember Kenneth MacMillan
Kenneth MacMillan died of a heart attack on 29 October 1992. It happened during a performance of his 1978 ballet Mayerling. Jeremy Isaacs, then general director of the Royal Opera House, announced his death from the stage after the performance and asked the audience to “rise and bow your heads and leave the theatre in silence”….
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Xander Parish becomes a Principal Dancer with the Mariinsky Ballet
Last night, on the stage of The Royal Opera House which he left eight years ago, Xander Parish was promoted to Principal Dancer of the Mariinsky Theatre. The Mariinsky are in London for a three week run of five different programmes until 12 August. Last night saw Parish as Siegfried in Swan Lake. The 31-year-old…
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Photos of the first night cast of The Royal Ballet’s The Sleeping Beauty with Sarah Lamb and Vadim Muntagirov
The Sleeping Beauty holds a special place in The Royal Ballet‘s repertory. It was the ballet with which the Company reopened the Royal Opera House in 1946 after World War II, its first production at its new home in Covent Garden. To celebrate its 70th anniversary with the Company, from tomorrow night, 21 December,…
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Royal Ballet’s 70th anniversary revival of The Sleeping Beauty – casting and photos
The Sleeping Beauty reopened the Royal Opera House after the war in February 1946 when the Company first took up residence in Covent Garden with Margot Fonteyn dancing the role of Princess Aurora. Now, 70 years later, The Royal Ballet will be performing their signature piece from Wednesday 21 December 2016 until Tuesday 14 March 2017. The 70th anniversary…
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Peter Wright answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dance Edition
Q&A When did you start dancing? Not until I was 16, as an apprentice with the Ballets Jooss. Why did you start dancing? I was always good at ballroom, and then my mother took me to see Mona Inglesby’s International Ballet. That was in 1943, and is what decided me. When did you start choreographing?…
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Yasmine Naghdi – the birth of a ballerina
Yasmine Naghdi was born on 25 March 1992 in London: Everyone I meet says, ‘Where are you from?’, and I say, ‘I’m from London’, and they say, ‘No, where are you really from?’.
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Kevin O’Hare interview: It’s an exciting time for The Royal Ballet
This is an exciting time for The Royal Ballet, which has been on a roll for several years with an enthusiastic public for the sold-out performances at the Royal Opera House, the extremely popular live cinema relays, and the streamed events on the internet.
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Carlos Acosta at The Royal Ballet: celebrating 17 years
Carlos Acosta at The Royal Ballet is a new book to celebrate Carlos Acosta’s 17 year career with The Royal Ballet from 1998 – 2015. The book, which captures some of his greatest performances as well as intimate behind-the-scenes moments, is published by Oberon Books and will be released in November 2015. It contains over 150 images…
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Royal Ballet stalwart Derek Rencher dies at 82
Derek Rencher, one of the longest serving members of The Royal Ballet, has died at 82. Rencher was born in Birmingham on 6 June 1932. He joined the Sadler’s Wells Ballet in 1953 and was promoted to soloist in 1957, the year after the company was granted its Royal Charter, becoming The Royal Ballet, and…
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Osipova, McRae and Watson in Marriott’s new Royal Ballet work Connectome
Alastair Marriott‘s new work Connectome gets its world première as the centrepiece of the final programme of the Royal Ballet Season. It is sandwiched between two light-hearted classics: Ashton’s The Dream and Robbin’s The Concert. Connectome is Marriott’s first commission for The Royal Ballet since Trespass, part of Monica Mason‘s farewell project Titian 2012. The name of the work describes the comprehensive map of the neural connections in…
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Portrait of Dame Monica Mason is unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery
Copyright: Jorge Herrera Photography A newly commissioned portrait of Dame Monica Mason, by artist Saied Dai has been unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery. In the larger than life-size portrait, Dame Monica – former ballerina and Director of the Royal Ballet – takes on a commanding pose as she sits holding a mask; a position reflective…
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