Royal Swedish Ballet
Standard YouTube Licence The company that David Murley saw on 8 April 2017 is the fourth oldest in the world. The Royal Swedish Ballet was founded in 1773 and its ballet masters include some of the...
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DEL Dance Theatre -
DEL Dance Theatre is a new dance company for young people in York. According to its Facebook page, DEL stands for "Dance", "Education" and "Learning" though it also appears to be the middle name of the...
View ArticleAll that was missing from this Evening's Performance was a Ballet by Marney...
This evening's performance by Ballet Central of its mixed programme at the Stanley and Audrey Burton Theatre was a triumph and I said so on twitter.But just one thing was missing - a work by...
View ArticleTriumphant
Standard YouTube LicenceBallet Central, Mixed Programme, Stanley and Audrey Burton Theatre 28 May 2017Ballet Central has aways been good and, having met Christopher Marney at several Ballet Black and...
View ArticleWhat was International Dance Day?
The first person to wish me a Happy International Dance Day was Sir Matthew Bourne who tweeted the following greeting:Happy #InternationalDanceDay#FredAstaire#dance#idolhttps://t.co/uTnfCOSWVE— Sir...
View ArticleBallet's Accelerator: Crowdfunding the Junior Company's Fifth Anniversary Ballet
Standard YouTube Licence Next year will be the fifth anniversary of the Dutch National Ballet Junior Company. I was fortunate enough to see one of its first public performances at the Stadsshouwburg in...
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Hampson & Parish
Hampson & Parish sound like a firm of patent agents but they are not, They are two fo the biggest names in ballet and they are coming to the London Ballet Circle on the 5 June and 2 Aug 2016...
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Evolve in Leeds
I try not to have any favourites in the dance world or at least not to how favouritism but I have a particularly soft spot for Scottish Ballet which was the first company that I got to know and love....
View ArticleRoyal Ballet's Rehearsals of Marguerite and Armand.and The Dream
Standard YouTube LicenceI skipped class on Wednesday night to watch the live streaming of rehearsals for two of the ballets in the Royal Ballet's Ashton triple bill of Marguerite and Armand. Symphonic...
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Jack White
The brilliant young composer, Jack White, who wrote the score for Ballet Cymru's Cinderella which was our ballet of the year for 2015 against some incredibly strong competition (see Highlights of 2015...
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Casanova Second Time Round
The LowryPhoto Andrew Dunn(c) 2004 Andrew Dunn: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2 LicenceSource WikipediaNorthern Ballet, Casanova. The Lowry, 6 May 2017, 19:30 I was pretty complimentary...
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More Good News from Wales: Swansea Students' Show
Swansea Grand TheatrePhoto FanrailukSource WikipediaCopyright waived by the authorYesterday I mentioned that the Welsh composer Jack White who has written the scores of Cinderella and Stuck in the Mud...
View ArticleDoing the Spits
Standard YouTuve LicenceThis is the time of the year when the Birmingham Royal Ballet splits into two. One lot goes to Durham, York and Nottingham while the other goes to Cheltenham, Poole and Truro. I...
View ArticleKNT's Le Corsaire: "It wasn’t called an intensive for nothing"
Standard YouTube LicenceKNT Beginners' Ballet Le Corsaire Intensive Dancehouse Manchsester, 15 April 2017 Wendy McDermottThe workshop at KNT always seems popular and this one day workshop, taught by...
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The Rehearsal
Ballet is intended for the theatre. No matter how untalented a student you may be, unless you dance before the paying public in a theatre you miss something important. The occasions that I have danced...
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Exeunt's Ballet Reviews - Mayerling and Casanova
The Mayerling Hunting Lodge near ViennaSource WikioediaI have recently discovered Exeunt Magazine as a result of a twitter spat that has arisen from its review of a performance of the Royal Ballet's...
View ArticleBirmingham Royal Ballet's Northern Tour 2017
Standard YouTube LicenceBirmingham Royal Ballet,Solitaire, 5 Tangos and Pineapple Poll, York Theatre Royal, 12 May 2017, 19:30As I mentioned in Doing the Splits 8 May 2017, the Birmingham Royal Ballet...
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Show
Move it!13 May 2016Author Gita Mistry© 2017 Gita Mistry: all rights reservedWe attracted quite a good crowd to The Dancehouse for Move It!yesterday despite competition from the Eurovision Song Contest,...
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Simon Garner's Dancer
Dancer inspired by the work of Glen KeaneAuthor Simon Garner© 2017 Simon Garner: all rights reservedReproduced with kind permission of the authorI introduced Simon Garner in Images of Giselle on 20...
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Music Copyright
By User:Milantex (File:DVD-4.5-scan.png) [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsYesterday someone asked a very interesting question about music copyright on BalletcoForum. I shall not address the...
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