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The Light Princess - a Special Ballet for a Special Company
Copyright 2017 Ballet Cymru: all rights reservedReproduced with kind permission of the companyBalletCymru The Light Princess, Riverfront Theatre, Newport 20 May 2017, 19:30 In 2015 Ballet Cymru's...
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Photos from Birmingham Royal Ballet's Northern Tour
Robert Parker as Captan Belaye in Birmingham Royal Ballets Pineapple PollPhoto Roy Smiljanic© 2017 Birmingham Royal Ballet: all rights reservedReproduced with kind permission of the companyI reviewed...
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Melbourne City of Dance
Photo © The Australian Ballet StudiosSince arriving in Australia, the last three weeks have flown by and I have settled into life in Melbourne. Melbourne is a really cool city, very clean, easy to...
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The Royal Ballet's Quadruple Bill - well balanced in Content, Style and Mood
Natalia Osipova in StraplessPhoto Bill Cooper© 2017 The Royal Ballet: all rights reservedReproduced with kind permission of the company The Royal Ballet The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude,...
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Not Quite "Death in Venice", more "The Big Sleep"
Interior of La Fenice, Venice 2015Photo YouflavioSource WikipediaCreative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International LicenceRome Opera Ballet, The Sleeping Beauty, La Fenice Theatre, Venice,...
View ArticlePrincipato moves to a Bigger Stage
Standard YouTube Licence Last year I nominated Cristiano Principato of the Dutch National Ballet as our outstanding young choreographer of the year (see The Terpsichore Titles: Outstanding Young...
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Birmingham Royal Ballet reaches out to Birmingham's LGBT Community
Sarah Lambert (no relation as far as I am aware but one never knows) has drawn my attention to a very generous offer by the Birmingham Royal Ballet to Birmingham's LGBT community. She writes:"For a...
View ArticleDemystifying Contemporary Dance
I have already mentioned Chantry Dance Company's tour of the UK in The Sandman Tour 27 Jan 2017 and Chantry Dance goes North 14 March 2017. In preparation for this tour, Paul Chantry and Rae Piper...
View ArticleBallet Cymru's Shadow Aspect
Standard YouTube Licence As a sign of increasing confidence of its special place in British Ballet following its Sleeping Beauty Moment at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff before Christmas and its...
View ArticleBollywood Beginner
Standard YouTube Licence Yesterday I had my first lesson in Bollywood dance. As part of the Southbank Alchemy, the largest UK festival of South Asian culture, members of the cast of Bring on the...
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A Phial of the Antidote
Photo Mattia GiannuzzCreative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 Unported LicenceSource WikipediaI had intended to write about the brilliant Southbank Centre's Alchemy Doncaster festival of South...
View ArticleHampson!
Standard YouTube LicenceWhenever the London Ballet Circle has a special guest such as Li-Cunxin or a special event such as the Circle's 70th anniversary celebrations last year, the Dancing Times's...
View ArticleHampson! A Postcript
I am very glad I attended Christopher Hampson's conversation with Gerald Dowler at the London Ballet Circle last night. It was a very good meeting. I learned a lot about choreography and running a...
View Article"A Most Rare Vision ...... A Dream"
Standard YouTube LicenceBallet Cymru A Midsummer Night's Dream 7 June 2017 19:30 Yesterday I had to make a tough choice between two ballet's derived from A Midsummer Night's Dream. In my local cinema...
View Article"Show!" - the Video
Standard YouTube LicenceIn Show 14 May 2017 I wrote how it felt to dance in Move It o at the Dancehouse Theatre in Manchester on 13 May 2017. Our teacher and choreographer, Karen Sant, filmed our...
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Scottish Ballet - Emergence and MC 14/22
Scottish Ballet EmergencePhoto Andy Ross© 2017 Scottish Ballet: all rights reservedReproduced with kind permission of the companyScottish Ballet, MC 14/22 (ceci est mon corps) and Emergence, Sadler's...
View ArticleSaying goodbye to Zenaida
Standard YouTube LicenceThe Royal Ballet The Dream, Symphonic Variations and Marguerite and Armand encore, Leeds Showcase, 11 June 2017 Yesterday, I found a movie theatre that showed last Wednesday's...
View ArticleBring on the Bollywood
Standard YouTube LicenceGita MistryPhizzical Bring on the Bollywood, CAST in Doncaster, 2 June 2017, 19:30"On 2 and 3 June 2017, I attended the Southbank Centre's Alchemy Doncaster South Asian Arts...
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Even more Sensational - Peter Wright's Coppelia
Nao Sakuma as SwanildaAuthor Bill Cooper© 2017 Birmingham Royal Ballet: all rights reserved Reproduced with kind permission of the companyBirmingham Royal Ballet. Coppelia, Hippodrome, 16 June 2017,...
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Dame Beryl Grey
Insignia of the Companions of HonourAuthor Robert PrummelCreative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 licence This blog tries to avoid obsequiousness (though we may not always succeed) but we happily...
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