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News from Ballet Black
In Ballet Black Takes York By Storm I recalled some of the great shows that Ballet Black had performed and added that none has impressed me more than their performance of Nina: By Whatever Means at...
View ArticleSarah Kundi - An Appreciation
Copyright 2023 English National Ballet, Licence Standard YouTuve LicenceReaders of this blog will know that I have a particularly high regard for Sarah Kundi. Although I must have seen her several...
View ArticleNorthern Ballet's Generations - A Treat in Store for London
Standard YouTube LicenceNorthern Ballet Generations Three Short Ballets 16 Sept 2023 14:00Tomorrow Northern Ballet will dance Benjamin Ella's Joie de Vivre, Hans van Manen's Adagio Hammerklavier and...
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My Visit to the Acosta Dance Centre
Jane Lambert(c) 2023 Melissa Rayne Reproduced with kind permission of the copyright owner During that glorious Indian summer at the beginning of September, I was in London. I was there for many...
View ArticleAiley II in Bradford
Standard YouTube LicenceAiley 2 (Enemy in the Figure, Freedom Series, The Hunt and Revelations) Alhambra Theatre, Bradford 18 Oct2023 19:30Aikey II is to Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre what NDT2 is...
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Salford Pioneers
Author Philip Stevens Licence CC BY-SA 4.0 Deed Source WikimediaJeremy BenthamBallet Black Pioneers (Then or Now and Nina: By Whatever Means) The Kowry 1 Nov 2023 20:00Having missed the start of Then...
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Powerhouse Ballet Celebrates Dance
Powerhouse Ballet Extract from La Sylphide Chrima Q Theatre, Leeds, 25 Nov 2023 15:00 and 19:00Every Autumn The Dance Studio Leeds presents a Celebration of Dance at the Chroma Q Theatre in Leeds. It...
View ArticleThe Junior Company Ten Years On
Standard YouTube LicenceJust over 10 years ago I flew to Holland to watch a troupe of dancers in their late teens and early twenties called "The Junior Company" (see The Junior Company of the Dutch...
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Shake Your Tutu
© 2023 Mark Gowland: all rights reserved Reproduced with kind permission of the ownerNorthern Dance Academy Shake Your Tutu10 Dec 2023 19:30 Creative Centre, York St John UniversityNorthern Dance...
View ArticleDutch National Ballet's "Giselle" in the Cinema
Standard YouTube LicenceDutch National Ballet Giselle UK screening 21 Jan 2024 14:00We do not get to see enough of the Dutch National Ballet in this country which is a shame for many reasons. It is...
View ArticleScottish Ballet's Cinders!
Standard YouTube LicenceScottish Ballet Cinders Theatre Royal Newcastle, 10 Feb 2024, 14:30Christopher Hampson created a beautiful version of Cinderella for the Royal New Zealand Ballet in 2007 which...
View ArticleManon
Standard YouTube LicenceRoyal Ballet Manon Royal Opera House Covent Garden, 2 March 2024 13:00While watching Manonon Saturday I was struck by the similarities to MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet. Not so...
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Powerhouse Ballet's First Class with Karen Lester-Sant since Lockdown
Powerhouse Ballet takes its name from the Coalition Government's proposal to rebalance the British economy by integrating and expanding the economic, social and cultural resources of the North of...
View ArticleNobody Dances The Sleeping Beauty better than the Birmingham Royal Ballet
Standard YouTube LicenceBirmingham Royal Ballet The Sleeping Beauty The Lowry 7 March 2024 18:39Every March the Birmingham Royal Ballet visits The Lowry to perform one of its full-length works. This...
View ArticleMoriconi and Gable's Romeo and Juliet
Standard YouTube LicenceNorthern Ballet Romeo and Juliet Sheffield Lyceum Theatre 4 April 2024 14:00Northern Ballet has two fine productions of Romeo and Juliet in its repertoire. One was created by...
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An Enormous Loss
By Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken - https://www.flickr.com/photos/ministeriebz/48865568151/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=152604341 I met Michaela Mabinty DePrince...
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Principato's Cinderella: Having a Ball in Tallinn
Maria Chugai and Elizabetta FormentoAuthor Jack Devant © 2024 Jack Devant. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the kind permission of the owner Cristiano Principato and Sander Sellin Cinderella...
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A Thoroughly Good Chap - HNB's Next Artistic Director
Ernst MeisnerStandard YouTube LicenceThe appointment of Ernst Meisner as the next Artistic Director of the Dutch National Ballet is excellent news and nowhere will it be welcomed more than in this...
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A Christmas Carol - A Reflection of a Golden Age
John Leech Marley's GhostSource Wikimedia Commons Northern Ballet A Christmas CarolLeeds Grand Theatre, 31 Dec 2024Although I read in Dance and Dancers about a performance at the Royal Northern...
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Powerhouse Ballet on a Roll
The Cast of Elysian Moments at ChromaQ Theatre, Leeds 23 Nov 2024 Last year was Powerhouse Ballet's best ever. We danced an extract from La Sylphide at KNT Danceworks' 15th-anniversary gala in July...
View ArticleThe Other Christmas Carol
Standard YouTube LicenceFinnish National Ballet A Christmas Carol YouTube Arte Concert 23 Dec 2024In this country, we hear much about the Royal Danish Ballet and the Royal Swedish Ballet, but not much...
View ArticleCarlos Acosta's Nutcracker in Havana
Standard YouTube LicenceAcosta Danza Nutcracker in Havana The Lowry, 27 Jan 2025, 19:30Carlos Acosta's Nutcracker in Havana had been promoted as a reimagining of Ivanov's ballet. That filled me with...
View ArticleHampson's Triumph
Standard YouTube LicenceScottish Ballet The Nutcracker Theatre Royal Newcastle, 6 Feb 2025 19:30I was so delighted with the first act of Christopher Hampson's production of The Nutcracker that I...
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My Third Attendance at the Royal Ballet's "Onegin"
https://www.rbo.org.uk/tickets-and-events/onegin-details Royal Ballet Onegin Royal Ballet and Opera House, 15 Feb 2025, 13:00Cranko's Oneginis a compelling watch. its subject is a man who toys with...
View ArticleFactory International Hosts Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney
Standard YouTube LicenceNederlands Dans Theater and Complicité Figures in Extinction Aviva Studios, Factory International, Manchester 21 Feb 2025, 19:30I had been looking forward to a show like...
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