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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...
View ArticleSwan Lake at the Leeds Showcase
Standard YouTube LicenceRoyal Ballet Swan Lake Leeds Showcase, 2 March 2025, 14:00On 27 Feb and 2 Mar 2025, cinemas across the United Kingdom screened a recording of Liam Scarlett's Swan Lake that had...
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Attending My First Friends' Rehearsal
Royal Ballet Romeo and Juliet(Rehearsal) Royal Ballet & Opera, 4 March 2025, 12:30I have been a Friend of the Royal Ballet & Opera off and on for nearly 60 years, but I had never attended a...
View ArticleCinders in Sunderland
Standard YouTube LicenceBirmingham Royal Ballet CinderellaSunderland Empire 15 Mar 2025 14:00 Between 6 Feb and 12 Apr 2025, the Birmingham Royal Ballet took Sir David Bintley's Cinderella on a...
View ArticleHere Be Dragons
Standard YouTube LicenceEun-Me Ahn Dance Company Dragons Alhambra Theatre, Bradford 22 Mar 2025 19:30The phrase "Hic Sunt Dracones" (Here be Dragons) appeared on an early 16th-century globe to indicate...
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Life with the Ribbon
Kimberley Hattersley-Barton and the Cast of Life with the Ribbon© 2025 Kimberley Hattersley-Barton, All rights reserved. Kimberley Hattersley-Barton and Friends Life with the Ribbon Unity Hall,...
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Powerhouse Ballet's Swan Lake Intensive Workshop
Jane Tucker and the Members of Powerhouse Ballet Author Gita Mistry Reproduced with the author's kind permission On Sunday, 25 May 2025, Powerhouse Ballet held an intensive workshop on Swan Lake at...
View ArticleJack White - Composer of Ballet Cymru's "Cinderella" and "Stick in the Mud"
Standard YouTube LicenceA few weeks ago, I had the pleasure and privilege of interviewing the Welsh composer Jack White for the Menai Science Park (Bangor University's science park at Gaerwen on Ynys...
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The Tempest from Caliban's Perspective
Fyodor Paramonov as Caliban Shobana Jeyasingh first came to my attention with Bayadère – The Ninth Life, which I saw just over 10 years ago. In my review, I wrote that Jeyasingh's work "compared and...
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Let Amsterdam Dance
AmsterdamAuthor Benutzer:AlterVista Licence CC BY-SA 3,0 Source Wikimedia CommonsOn 27 Oct 2025, the city of Amsterdam will celebrate the 750th anniversary of its foundation. Just now, it is in the...
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Acosta Dance Centre Update
AuthorEthan Doyle White Licence CC BY-SA 4.0, Source Wikimedia Commons I visited the Acosta Dance Centre with Melissa Rayne in September 2023 and wrote about my visit in My Visit to the Acosta Dance...
View ArticleTess
Standard YouTube LicenceOckham's Razor Tess Home, Manchester 7 Jun 2025, 19:30Last night, I finally got to see Tess. I was supposed to see it at the Leeds Playhouse on 31 May 2025, but the show was...
View ArticleBallet Cymru's New Giselle
Standard YouTube LicenceBallet Cymru is touring the United Kingdom with a new production of Giselle. It opened in Newport on 16 May 2025, and the company will bring it to Bangor on 13 Jun and Mold on...
View ArticleNorthern Ballet's Romeo and Juliet at the Playhouse
Standard YouTube LicenceNorthern Ballet will perform Christopher Gable's Romeo and Juliet at Leeds Playhouse between 18 and 21 Jun 2025. In my article on the Royal Ballet's rehearsal of Romeo and...
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Local Hero
Author Tim Green Licence CC BY 2.0 Source Wikimedia CommonsHuddersfield Station The Birmingham Royal Ballet's website and programmes used to state: "Huddersfield is not as famous in the world of...
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Rachel Hickey and Her Company
The Stage of the Czech National Theatre. PragueAuthor Jorge Royan Licence CC BY-SA 3.0 SourceWikimedia CommonsI am delighted to announce that Rachel Hickey of the Czech National Ballet has agreed to...
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Ballet Cymru's Giselle 3.0
Scene from Act Two of the Original Performance of Fisekke Ballet Cymru Giselle Pontio Arts and Innovation Centre, Bangor 13 Jun 2025 19:30Yesterday I saw Ballet Cymru's third production of Giselle....
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The Days I went to Bangor - Ballet Cymru's Relaxed Performances
View of Bangor University and the Pontio CentreAuthor Andrew Woodvine Licence CC NY-SA 2.0 Source Wikimedia Commons Ballet Cymru Giselle relaxed performance Pontio Centre 14 Jun 2025The great David...
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