My first ballet experience was going to see the Nutcracker with my family. We caught the train from Surrey up to Waterloo, and walked along the Thames bank to the Royal Festival Hall where the London Festival Ballet were performing it twice a day throughout the Christmas period. The venue has changed and the name of the company has changed, but the schedule hasn’t: from 16 December until 10 January the English National Ballet will perform the Christmas evergreen 34 times at the London Coliseum.
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