The Ballet Couple
Standard YouTube LicenceThere is a great overlap between film and dance. It started long before The Red Shoes. Pavlova experimented with the camera as you can see from her clip of The Dying Swan In...
View ArticleThe Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - "an impressive work that was danced...
Standard YouTube LicenceNorthern Ballet The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas 9 Sept 2017 19:30 West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsDaniel de Andrade's ballet, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, is an impressive work...
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The Bridgewater Hall's Birthday Party
Author Alan StantonLicence Creative Common Attribution Share Alike 2.0 GenericI thought of our 55+ class's talented pianist, Alena Panasenka, this weekend when I visited the Bridgewater Hall for its...
View ArticleWorld Ballet Day is coming
Standard YouTube LicenceOne of the compensations of Autumn is World Ballet Day in which five of the world's top companies present their offerings and those of their guests. This year it falls on 5 Oct...
View ArticleNorthern Ballet and Phoenix host the China IP Roadshow
Standard YouTube LicenceEver since Northern Ballet moved to its new studios I have been looking for a chance to introduce it to my colleagues and clients (see Ballet and Intellectual Property - my...
View ArticleBirmingham Royal Ballet's Aladdin nearly Five Years on
Standard YouTube LicenceBirmingham Royal Ballet Aladdin The Lowry, 23 Sept 2017, 19:30 Shortly after I started this blog I reviewed Birmingham Royal Ballet's Aladdin (see my review of 1 March 2013). I...
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The Sandman in Halifax
Chantry Dance Company: The Sandman(c) 2017 Chantry Dance Co: all rights reservedChantry Dance Company The Sandman Victoria Theatre, Halifax, 25 Sept 2017 19:30 When I first met Paul Chantry and Rae...
View ArticlePhoenix - A Double Celebration
Standard YouTube LicencePhoenix Dance Theatre A Celebration of Female Choreographers Stanley and Audrey Burton Theatre, 28 Sept 2017 19:30 and Celebration Gala for Nadine SeniorWest Yorkshire...
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Dance as an Act of Worship in the Durga Puja Festival
© 2017 Jane Lambert: all rights reservedIn Bayadère – The Ninth Life Shobana Jayasingh traces the origins of Petipa's ballet to a visit by temple dancers from Pondicherry to Paris in 1838. The dancers...
View ArticleNorthern Ballet's MacMillan Celebration
Standard YouTube LicenceNorthern Ballet A Celebration of Sir Kenneth MacMillanAlhambra Theatre, Bradford, 7 Oct 2017, 19:30Kenneth MacMillan died on 29 Oct 1992. On the 25th anniversary of his death,...
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Ballet Cymru's Shadow Aspct
Carl JungBallet Cymru Shadow Aspect, Riverfront Theatre, Newport, 6 Nov 2017 Though I doubt that either profession would thank me for mentioning it, ballet dancers share a lot more than you would...
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A Tale of Two Onegins
Author Helen McDonough© 2017 All rights reservedHelen McDonoughLa Scala Ballet Onegin 28 and 29 Sept 2017 La Scala Theatre, Milan I travelled to Milan at the end of September to catch 2 performances of...
View ArticleAlways Something Special from English National Ballet: La Sylphide with Song...
Standard YouTube LicenceEnglish National Ballet La Sylphide. Song of the Earth Palace Theatre, 14 Oct 2017, 19:30Long before Laverne Meyer set up his Northern Dance Theatre in Manchester, Mancunians...
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Ballet Black post Johnson - Still a good performance but something was missing
Author JyntoReproduced with kind permission of the authorBallet Black Dopamine (You make my levels go silly), Captured, Red Riding Hood 18 Nov 2017 Stanley and Audrey Burton Theatre Leeds If anyone is...
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Tutti Frutti - Phoenix's Over 55 Contemporary Class
Morley Town HallAuthor Steve PartridgeLicence Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 GenericEvery Monday between 11:00 and 12:15 during the Leeds school term I get to dance to Little Richard with...
View ArticleThe Dutch National Ballet's "The Sleeping Beauty" - I have waited nearly 50...
Standard YouTube LicenceThe Dutch National Ballet The Sleeping Beauty, Stopera, Amsterdam 17 Dec 2017, 14:00It's funny how some performances stand out in one's memory over the years. The performance...
View ArticleKNT Nutcracker Intensive
Standard YouTube LicenceWeekends don't come better than this. A preview of @watson_dance's Windrush which was outstanding. A chance to dance sugar plum and 1st showflake on Saturday at @DanceWithKNT....
View ArticleWindrush Studio Sharing
Standard YouTube LicencePhoenix Dance Theatre Windrush – Movement of the People, Quarry Hill, 15 Dec 2017, 15:30On 22 June 1948 the MV Empire Windrush, a former German troopship, sailed into Tilbury...
View ArticleDegas, Dance, Drawing
Standard YouTube LicenceMusée d'Orsay, "Degas, Danse, Dessin" 28 Nov 2017 to 25 Feb 2018, ParisEdgar Degas died on 27 Sept 2017. To mark the centenary of his death, the Musée d'Orsay has assembled many...
View ArticleParis Opera Ballet's Don Quixote
Standard YouTube LicenceOpera National de Paris Don Quixote Opera Bastille 25 Dec 2017, 19:30Although Don Quixote is not one of my favourite Petipa ballets it does have some spectacular choreography....
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