Red Shoes Rebounding
Standard YouTube LowryJust over a year ago the BBC made the film The Red Shoes available on the iPlayer. I watched it and reviewed it in The Red Shoes 15 Nov 2915. Today a new stage version of The Red...
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Congratulations to Ballet West - here's to the next 25 Years
Loch EtiveAuthor:Jamie CampbellSourceWikipediaCreative Commons LicenceAccording to Gillian Barton's Facebook page, yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of Ballet West's first public performance. It is...
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Sarah Mortimer
Yesterday I mentioned Ballet West and its touring company (see Congratulations to Ballet West - here's to the next 25 Years 23 Nov 2016). One of my favourite dancers, Sarah Mortimer, is a graduate of...
View ArticleENB's Big Give to Dance for Parkinson's
Standard YouTube Licence Every year English National Ballet holds a Big Give to raise funds for its Dance for Parkinson's programme. I mentioned the event last year in English National Ballet's Appeal...
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Statistics
Since I started this blog on 25 Feb 2016 I have posted 804 articles and received over 200,000 page hits. Our 10 most popular articles have been as follows:A Romeo and Juliet for our Times 7 Nov...
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A Birmingham Bayadere
It goes against the grain for a Mancunian to say anything nice about Birmingham but I gladly make an exception for the Birmingham Royal Ballet. It is a great national institution that deserves generous...
View ArticleThe Peony Pavilion
Standard YouTube LicenceThe National Ballet of China The Peony Pavilion, The Lowry, 26 Nov 2016. 19:30 With a population of nearly 1.4 billion, an estimated GDP of US$9.24 trillion in 2013 and a...
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Castro and Cuban Ballet
Fidel Castro 1926-2916Author Antônio MilenaSourceWikipediaWhether your opinion of him is closer to that of Mr Jeremy Corbyn or that of President Elect Trump, it would appear that the late Fidel Castro...
View ArticleLeeds Dance Partnership
Standard YouTube Licence On the very day that Northern Ballet's Artistic Director, David Nixon, addressed the London Ballet Circle, Arts Council England announced that it had granted £750,000 to...
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Ballet Cymru's Big Give Appeal
Ballet Cymru(c) 2015 Gita Mistry: all rights reservedI have already asked you to dig deep for English National Ballet's Dance for Parkinson in ENB's Big Give to Dance for Parkinson's 25 Nov 2016 and...
View ArticleThoughts on St Andrew's Day
Standard YouTube Licence Yesterday was St Andrew's Day and my thoughts turned to Andrew Laing's Almae Matres as they often do at this time of year:"St Andrews by the Northern Sea,A haunted town it is...
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Little Red Riding Hood comes to London
Little Red Riding HoodPhoto John Bishop(c) 2016 Ballet Cymru: all rights reservedReproduced wth kind permission of the companyBallet Cymru, Little Red Riding Hood and ThrLittletke Pigs, Sadler's Wells,...
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Red Shoes Bourne Again
Sir Matthew Bourne(c) 2006 New AdventuresCreative Commons LicenceSource WikipediaNew Adventures The Red Shoes The Lowry, 2 Dec 2016 I have come a long way in my appreciation of Sir Matthew Bourne since...
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The Red Shoes Second Time Round
The Angel and Karen in Hans Christian Anderson's Fairy TaleIllustrator Vilhelm PedersonSource WikipediaNew Adventures The Red Shoes The Lowry, 3 Dec 2016, 19:30 I enjoyed Friday's performance of The...
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Ballet Cymru's "Sleeping Beauty Moment"
The Millennium Centre(c) 2016 Jane Lambert: all rights reservedBallet Cymru Little Red Riding Hood and Three Little Pigs Millennium Centre, 4 Dec 2016 Yesterday I was fortunate enough to attend an...
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Calyx
Book cover design by Charles MeunierSource WikipediaPhoenix Dance Theatre, Calyx, Quarry Hill, 8 Dec 2016When I was in my last year at school I discovered that the University of St. Andrews ran an...
View ArticleManchester City Ballet's Coppelia
Standard YouTube LicenceManchester City Ballet, Coppelia, The Dancehouse, 9 Dec 2016, 19:30, 10 Dec 2016 In Of Bikes and Buses 25 Oct 2016, I mentioned a short debate on Radio 4 between the newspaper...
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Brandsen's Coppelia
Standard YouTube LicenceDutch National Ballet Coppelia, Music Theatre, Amsterdam 11 Dec 2016, 14:00With Mata Hari Ted Brandsen showed he was a master of tragedy (see Brandsen's Masterpiece 14 Feb...
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The Royal Ballet's Nutcracker in the Merrie City
Wakefield from Sandal CastleAuthor Tim GreenCreative Commons LicenceSourceWikipediaThe Royal Ballet, The Nutcracker, streamed to cinemas 8 Dec 2016 Immediately after watching the preview of Calyx and...
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Pictures of Coppelia
Frans and ZwaantjePhoto: Altin Kaftira(c) 2016 Dutch National Ballet: all rights reservedReproduced with the kind permission of the companyDutch National Ballet, Coppelia, The Music Theatre, Amsterdam,...
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