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Details released of Akram Khan’s new Giselle for ENB
At Tim Yip studio in Beijing, supper excited about what he will create for Giselle!!!! #ENBOnTour! #ENBChina pic.twitter.com/TuS29vb8Gl — Tamara Rojo (@TamaraRojo1) May 4, 2015 A year ago, English...
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Strike action hits opening night of Manon at La Scala
The first night of Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon at La Scala tomorrow night will be affected by strike action. The CGIL union has announced the strike, but the theatre has said that the performance will go...
View ArticleSarah Lamb on débuting at La Scala in Manon with Claudio Coviello
As has already been reported, the on-off-on-off again tale of Natalia Osipova as Manon in Milan is now definitely “off” and she has been replaced by The Royal Ballet’s gorgeous Sarah Lamb. About her...
View ArticleMaya Plisetskaya’s 90th birthday celebrated in concerts and exhibitions
20 November 2015 would have been Maya Plisetskaya’s 90th birthday. The great Russian ballerina, who died on 2 May this year, will be remembered in a series of events in Moscow and St Petersburg. On 18...
View ArticleSarah Lamb makes her début at La Scala with Claudio Coviello in Manon
La Scala sometimes lets down its audience by casting a ‘local’ dancer when the star has cancelled. I apologise if I’m upsetting some of the company, but this is often a deluding experience resulting in...
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Cinderellas and Princes: Fracci, Semionova, Gades and Bolle
[caption id="attachment_186628" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Carla Fracci with Antonio Gades - Polina Semionova with Roberto Bolle[/caption] Polina Semionova and Roberto Bolle are about to open...
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Dance photographer Rick Guest… what lies beneath
[caption id="attachment_186648" align="alignright" width="376"] Ed Watson by Rick Guest[/caption] Rick Guest is a photographer who’s highly polished style has led him to work with some of the biggest...
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Choreographer Petr Zuska and the Czech National Ballet
[caption id="attachment_186604" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Czech National Ballet perform Petr Zuska's Nutcracker - photos by Dasa Wharton[/caption] The Czech National Ballet is one of the...
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La Scala’s new Cinderella opens with Polina Semionova and Roberto Bolle
[caption id="attachment_187169" align="alignright" width="354"] Roberto Bolle and Polina Semionova - photo Teatro alla Scala, Brescia-Armisano 2015[/caption] Mauro Bigonzetti’s new Cinderella, set to...
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Backstage at the Nutcracker with the English National Ballet
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...
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Sylvie’s last dance: a tribute to Guillem, the artist and her career
In 29 December 1984, after a memorable performance of Swan Lake at the Paris Opera, the great Rudolf Nureyev named an extraordinary 19-year-old étoile. Her name was Sylvie Guillem. Nureyev’s...
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Mats Ek retires and pulls the plug on his choreography worldwide
Mats Ek presents his last ever piece of choreography tonight until 10 January in Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on the first stop of his farewell tour. He is 70. The programme presents three...
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Cynthia Harvey to become the new director of ABT’s JKO School
American Ballet Theatre’s Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie has announced that from September 2016, Cynthia Harvey will become the new Artistic Director of the American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy...
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Strapless is Christopher Wheeldon’s latest work for The Royal Ballet
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...
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Critics round-up: Liam Scarlett’s Frankenstein, The Royal Ballet
Not many critics go back as far as the Financial Times’s Clement Crisp, so his saying that The Royal Ballet’s new Frankenstein is, …a balletic evening as bizarre as any I have known at Covent Garden...
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Teatro alla Scala new ballet season 2016-2017, “a strange equilibrium”
La Scala has released its new ballet season for 2016-2017. Not surprisingly, the new Ballet Director. Mauro Bigonzetti, is putting his mark on the season with a new production of Coppélia which he will...
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Royal Ballet tours to Japan this summer with Romeo and Juliet and Giselle
The Royal Ballet will tour to Japan this summer with Romeo and Juliet and Giselle, two iconic productions from the company’s repertory. The tour will take in five cities from Thursday 16 June to...
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La Scala dancers protest over planned new ballet season
At the close of today’s press conference at La Scala to announce Mauro Bigonzetti’s 2016-2017 season, fifty or so company dancers arrived to protest at the repertoire proposed. Bigonzetti – a...
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ENB’s Emerging Dancer competition to be streamed live on 17 May
The English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer competition at the London Palladium, now in its seventh year, will this year be live streamed for the first time. The broadcast will be in partnership with...
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Eifman Ballet celebrates 40th Anniversary in London with UK premiere of Up &...
The Eifman Ballet will return to London Coliseum from 6 – 10 December with the UK premiere of Boris Eifman’s Up & Down to music by Gershwin, Schubert and Berg. Set during the Jazz Age “the piece...
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