Director of Ballet of Monterrey, Yosvani Ramos (former principal dancer with English National Ballet and Australian Ballet) brings dancers for UK debut.
The Winter’s Tale will, I predict, be the ballet for which Wheeldon will be best remembered in the future.
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…
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…
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…
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…
I have three older brothers. When I came along mum she wanted that I did feminine things: there was too much football in the house. I was always dressed in pink and, and then when I was three, she took me to a dancing school. It was though a lightbulb came on in my head….
The Royal Ballet has released the casting for their Autumn Season, from September 2016 until January 2017. Roberta Marquez will return as Guest Artist to dance two farewell performances in one of her signature roles as the wayward daughter Lise in La fille mal gardée. LA FILLE MAL GARDÉE 27 and 30 September at 7.30pm…
Repeating the success of last year’s ballet gala, Daniele Cipriani once again presents a Les Étoiles evening in Rome. Tonight and tomorrow night – 23 and 24 January – there is the opportunity to catch some of the world’s brightest stars at the Auditorium Conciliazione, just around the corner from the Vatican. The Royal Ballet‘s…
Strapless is Christopher Wheeldon’s latest work for The Royal Ballet and is inspired by the scandalous Portrait of Madame X painted by John Singer Sargent in 1884. Strapless is part of a Wheeldon mixed programme that also includes two works new to the Company: After the Rain and Within the Golden Hour. Strapless is Wheeldon’s eighth…
Paixão (Passion) is the title of a show to mark Thiago Soares‘ (first) 15 years on stage. The programme consists of the third act of Swan Lake, which he will dance with Marianela Nuñez in Rio de Janeiro, then with Lauren Cuthbertson in Recife and São Paulo, together with the Companhia Brasileira de Ballet. However there are new works…
New York City Ballet Principal Dancers Ashley Bouder, Joaquin De Luz, Amar Ramasar and Andrew Veyette are joined by company dancers Emilie Gerrity, Joseph Gordon, Spartak Hoxha, Alexa Maxwell and Indiana Woodward for a Gala performance in Rome. On 8 March in the Santa Cecilia Hall in Rome’s modern arts complex, the Auditorium Parco della…
The new ballet by Hofesh Shechter for The Royal Ballet, which can be seen from 27 March until 14 April with Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments and MacMillan’s Song of the Earth, still has no title, but it will feature the entire company. Shechter, who is renowned for his unique style of contemporary dance, is creating his first…
A good old-fashioned ballet gala: Nutcracker, Don Q, Swan Lake, Le Corsaire… it’s sometimes just what the doctor ordered. Daniele Cipriani‘s Les Étoiles injected the audience in Rome with a generous dose of positive energy administered by some of the world’s best dancers. It wasn’t all cherries. Silvia Azzoni and Oleksandr Ryabko danced Hamburg Ballet…
John Cranko‘s masterpiece, Onegin, returns to the Royal Opera House at the end of this month. Created for the Stuttgart Ballet in 1965, the Royal Ballet first performed this production in 2001 and have since made it a staple of the repertory. The upcoming performances feature role débuts from Principal dancer Natalia Osipova and First Soloist…
Christmas, New Year and then the Epiphany – the day of the Befana, a sort of female Santa Claus who delivers presents to Italian children for the Twelfth day of Christmas – and Daniele Cipriani Entertainment now adds another date to this feast of abundance with a dance gala full of plums! The 10th and 11th…
THE FOUR TEMPERAMENTS / NEW HOFESH SHECHTER / SONG OF THE EARTH George Balanchine / NEW Hofesh Shechter / Kenneth MacMillan Music: Paul Hindemith / Koen Kessels / Gustav Mahler 27, 30 March, 8, 10, 14 April at 7.30pm A world première from much sought-after Israeli choreographer and composer Hofesh Shechter is the centrepiece of…
The Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle has announced the nominations for the 15th National Dance Awards. The Critics’ Circle is composed of five sections: Music, Theatre, Film, Dance and Visual Arts and Architecture. Its aims are to promote the art of criticism, to uphold its integrity in practice and to support the advancement of the arts. Currently…
London’s Royal Opera House is involved in lots of charitable work, and during a charitable event Royal Ballet principal dancer Thiago Soares was introduced to Richard Street, head of Street Kids in the UK. Street Kids is an organisation which believes that young people on the street have the potential to change their own lives….
The Royal Ballet have released casting details for Christopher Wheeldon‘s latest project for the company, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. It will be the first full length adaptation of a Shakespeare play by The Royal Ballet since Kenneth MacMillan‘s 1965 production of Romeo and Juliet. It has been timed to coincide with the 450th anniversary of…
Sarah Lamb, Marianela Nuñez, Gary Avis, Steven McRae, Thiago Soares and Edward Watson celebrate Mara Galeazzi As Royal Ballet dancers arrived in Verona to share the stage with Mara Galeazzi for the last time, they talked about their Italian colleague who has danced with the Royal Ballet from more than 20 years. Long-time partner Edward Watson, who joined the…
Summer months in Italy boast many ballet galas: Bolle & Friends, Abbagnato & Friends… who doesn’t want to tour the glorious piazze of Italy: fantastic dance in fantastic settings. But this year, one gala stands out, for Mara Galeazzi gave her farewell on 23 July at the enchanting Teatro Romano in Verona. Not Galeazzi &…
You may not to get to see Royal Ballet principal Mara Galeazzi dance at the Royal Opera House again (addio 13 June 2013 in Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling), or with the Royal Ballet (addio 29 June in MacMillan’s Manon), but there is a wonderful opportunity to see her dance in three weeks’ time. On 23 July there…
Royal Ballet principal dancers Marianela Núñez and Thiago Soares have helped launch a £1.2 million adult eating disorders unit. They have worked with Professor Jon Arcelus, who is a consultant psychiatrist at the Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, to raise awareness of eating disorders among other dancers and staff in their industry. The Leicester Mercury quotes Núñez as saying, While…
Good news for dance at La Scala. Cutting down on the budget has meant axing three opera productions, but opera’s loss is ballet’s gain, for the ‘cheaper’ ballet performances have been bumped up from 49 this season to a healthier 61. More guests too will liven up the 2013-2014 season. House fixtures Svetlana Zakharova, Roberto Bolle and Massimo Murru…
Just over a month ago the Royal Ballet announced that principal dancer Mara Galeazzi will be leaving the company: Mara Galeazzi will retire from The Royal Ballet in July 2013, at the end of the current season. Mara, who had her first child last April, will move to Oman to be with her husband. She…
Q&A When did you start dancing? I started age 15. Why did you start dancing? When I joined the Centro de Dança Rio it felt right, and I felt like I had found something that I had been looking for until then.. and I thought that to keep going would take me somewhere. Which dancer inspired…
How many Nutcrackers has The Sunday Times’ David Dougill seen? Thousands certainly. But he still finds an evening at the Royal Ballet‘s version “uplifting stuff”: Wright’s focal story is full of humanity: the love of young Clara for her Nutcracker. Iohna Loots and Ricardo Cervera are favourites in these roles, she so charming, eager and wonderstruck, he…
In 2006 Monica Mason decided to go back to the beginning with the Royal Ballet‘s signature ballet, The Sleeping Beauty: consign the 2003 Makarova disaster (“dramatically shapeless and emotionally flat” said The Times) to the dustbins, and restore Oliver Messel’s 1946 production. That was the year that the Vic-Wells Ballet moved to the Royal Opera House. There has…
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