Royal Ballet School centenary gala sees students alongside The Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet
The Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and The Royal Ballet School unite to celebrate a century of training and artistic legacy.
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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: Julia Conway – English National Ballet’s new Principal Dancer
Julia Conway talks with Graham Spicer on her promotion to ENB Principal, preparing Nureyev’s Romeo and Juliet, and balancing technique with storytelling.
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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.
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The Royal Ballet School’s 100th graduate year achieves a 100% employment rate
In The Royal Ballet School’s 100th graduating class, this year consisting of 30 students, all have secured contracts with companies as they start their professional journeys.
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Valentino Zucchetti leaves The Royal Ballet
First Soloist Valentino Zucchetti is to leave The Royal Ballet after 16 years to pursue his choreographic and producing career.
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Review: Ballet Nights, New Futures – the opportunity to compare and contrast
Graham Watts sees New Futures from Ballet Nights, featuring 150 dancers from seven leading dance schools, but it needed pruning and better management.
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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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Interview: The Royal Ballet’s William Bracewell on his journey to Mayerling
Lily Hyde talks to William Bracewell about preparing to play Prince Rudolf in The Royal Ballet’s Mayerling, his acting process, and an unlikely source of inspiration.
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The Royal Ballet – complete 2026-2027 Season
The complete presentation, calendar and production details of the full Royal Ballet 2026-2027 Season.
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The Royal Ballet School looks to the future as it celebrates its 100th anniversary
Matthew Paluch attended a Royal Ballet School Centenary Insight Day. Like the school’s founder, Ninette de Valois, he believes we need more than feelings; we need intelligence.
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Cory Stearns to retire from American Ballet Theatre
Cory Stearns, a Principal Dancer with American Ballet Theatre since 2011, will retire from the Company following performances of Onegin during the 2026 Summer season.
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Interview: Valentino Zucchetti, choreographer and Royal Ballet First Soloist, talks about his new Nutcracker
Lily Hyde talks to choreographer and Royal Ballet First Soloist Valentino Zucchetti as his new production of The Nutcracker for New English Ballet Theatre tours to the Bahamas before a pre-Christmas run in London.
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Interview: Kate Flatt, choreographer and movement director, on 40 years of Les Mis and Turandot
Paul Arrowsmith talks to Kate Flatt – choreographer, movement director, mentor and dance educator – on her two long-running productions, the musical Les Misérables and the opera Turandot, and a life in the theatre.
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Interview: Royal Ballet dancers Ella Newton Severgnini and Francisco Serrano talk about their debut in Christopher Wheeldon’s Like Water for Chocolate
Graham Spicer talks with Royal Ballet dancers Ella Newton Severgnini and Francisco Serrano who dance the leading roles in Wheeldon’s Like Water for Chocolate.
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Christopher Powney appointed new artistic director of Dutch National Ballet’s Junior Company
Christopher Powney has been appointed artistic director of Dutch National Ballet’s Junior Company succeeding Ernst Meisner.
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The Fonteyn 2025: The Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition to be held in Brazil this October
The Fonteyn 2025 – RAD’s The Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition, is coming to São Paulo, Brazil for the first time (11-19 October 2025).
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Interview: English ballerina Georgie Rose, dancing on top of Rome
Royal Ballet School-trained ballerina Georgie Rose discusses dancing at Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome, her choreographer Sergio Bernal, and living with Tourette’s syndrome.
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Review: The Royal Ballet School Summer Performance – the stars of tomorrow step into the spotlight today
Georgina Butler sees The Royal Ballet School Summer Performance 2025 celebrating tradition, innovation and passion and danced by remarkable students.
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The Royal Ballet announces company promotions, joiners and leavers 2025
Director of The Royal Ballet, Kevin O’Hare, has announced promotions, new joiners and leavers for The Royal Ballet’s 2025/26 Season.
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Next Generation Festival – The Royal Ballet celebrates youth dance talent
The Royal Ballet’s Next Generation Festival in the Linbury Theatre features an impressive lineup of young dance talent.
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Interview: Iain Mackay, the new director of the Royal Ballet School, on bodies and gender
“I noticed at children’s parties, when the music starts the boys aged four to six were always first up, then all of a sudden… they don’t dance anymore. Why is that?”
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Acclaimed disabled dancer and choreographer Joe Powell-Main needs your help
Joe Powell-Main, the freelance dancer and choreographer “on wheels and crutches”, has begun a ‘GOFUNDME’ project to support his new company, JPM Productions.
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Interview: Giving Voice to British Ballet – Patricia Linton talks to Jonathan Gray about Voices of British Ballet
Dance critic Jonathan Gray talks to Voices of British Ballet director, Patricia Linton, about the oral history project.
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Reece Clarke to debut as Guest Artist with American Ballet Theatre during 2024 Fall Season
Reece Clarke to debut as Guest Artist with American Ballet Theatre during 2024 Fall Season
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Natasha Kaplinsky announced as Chair of The Royal Ballet School
The Royal Ballet School has appointed Natasha Kaplinsky as its new Chair, effective from 1 October. Kaplinsky is the third high-level appointment in a year.
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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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The Royal Ballet appoints Stuart Cassidy as Répétiteur to the Principal Artists
The Royal Ballet has announced the appointment of former company principal dancer Stuart Cassidy as Répétiteur to the Principal Artists.
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The Royal Ballet School and The Australian Ballet School come together in Melbourne
From 29 September to 3 October 2024, The Royal Ballet School will deliver Inspire, a teacher training programme hosted by The Australian Ballet School in Melbourne.
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Photo Album: The Royal Ballet School’s Summer Performance 2024
Photo album of The Royal Ballet School’s Summer Performance 2024 with the entire school including 25 graduates.
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