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Sarah Mortimer's New Studios
Just over a year ago I mentioned that Sarah Mortimer had left Ballet Theatre UK to start a new career as a freelance dancer and teacher (see Sarah Mortimer 24 Nov 2016). Sarah was a delightful dancer...
View ArticleA Day of Superlatives - Dutch National Ballet's Don Quixote
Standard YouTube LicenceDutch National Ballet Don Quixote 28 Feb 2018 20:00 Music Theatre, AmsterdamWednesday was a day of superlatives. I don't think Amsterdam has ever looked lovelier than it did...
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Visiting Friends - Ballet Black at Home
The View from outside the FeathersAuthor Geoffrey SkelseyLicence Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 InternationalSource WikipediaThe day before I left for Amsterdam while the Beast form the...
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No Ordinary Nutcracker - Duchy Ballet's 20th Anniversary Performance
Sara-Maria Barton as Sugar Rum CherryAuthor Zoe Green Photography© 2018 Duchy BalletReproduced with kind permission of the companyDuchy Ballet The Nutcracker Hall for Cornwall, 10 March 2018, 19:30In...
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Excellence - Ballet Black's Double Bill
Ballet Black The Suit and A Dream within Midsummer Night's DreamBarbican Centre 16 March 2018, 20:00After seeing extracts of Cathy Marston's The Suit and Arthur Pita's A Dream within Midsummer Night's...
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Bernstein Centenary
Leonard Bernstein 1918-1990Photo Jack MitchellLicence Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 internationalSource WikipediaRoyal Ballet Bernstein Centenary (Yugen, The Age of Anxiety and...
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GDPR Primer for Companies, Teachers, Schools and Theatres
On Monday I received the following email from Northern Ballet Academy:"Due to changes in the Data Protection law coming into force from May 2018 we now need your approval in advance to contact you with...
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Back To The Pointe
Photo LambtronLicence Copyright waived by authorSource WikipediaIt’s been months since I last wrote a post here, and until last week it had been ten weeks since I had last attended a ballet class, and...
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Chelmsford's Dazzling Snow Queen
Lucy Abbott and Scarlett Mann as the Snow Queen's WolvesAuthor Andrew PotterCopyright 2017 Chelmsford Ballet Company - all rights reservedReproduction licensed by kind permission of the...
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Powerhouse Ballet
Last week I saw a brilliant performance of The Snow Queen by the Chelmsford Ballet Company which I reviewed in Chelmsford's Dazzling Snow Queen, A couple of weeks earlier I saw an innovative...
View ArticleDavid Murley
Standard YouTube LicenceI have just stumbled upon the website of one of my favourite choreographers, David Murley. I was led to him, as I had been led to Ballet Black, by Sarah Kundi. For a few months...
View ArticleBernstein Centenary Encore
Standard YouTube LicenceRoyal Ballet Bernstein Centenary Encore 14:00 Leeds Showcase CinemaI attended the Bernstein Centenary triple bill at Covent Garden on 17 March 2018 (see Bernstein Centenary 18...
View ArticleJunior Company - Five Tremendous Years
Standard YouTube LicenceIn Ernst Meisner’s Work with the Dutch National Ballet 2 Dec 2014, Ernst Meisner. the Artistic Coordinator of the Dutch National Company Junior Company, told me how that company...
View ArticleBalletLORENT's Rumpelstiltskin
Standard YouTube LicenceBalletLORENT Rumpelstiltskin 7 April 2018, 14:30 Lawrence Batley Theatre, HuddersfieldThe dancers of BalletLORENT performed the Poet Laureate's adaptation of the Grimms'...
View ArticleBolshoi's Giselle Second Time Round
Standard YouTube LicenceBolshoi Ballet Giselle 8 April 2016 Pathé LiveThe recording of Giselle (for which the Huddersfield Odeon charged me £15.15 even with a 10% discount) was first performed on 11...
View ArticleKNT's One Day Workshop on La Bayadère
Standard YouTube LicenceWe spent the first sunny day of the year cooped up in a dance studio in Manchester. How sad is that? Well not at all really because we had a whale of a time. For the first...
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"In the Future" - Junior Company's Fifth Anniversary Performance
Standard YouTube LicenceDutch National Ballet Junior Company In the Future15 April 2018, 19:30 Stadsschouwburg, AmsterdamIn the Future is a triple bill to celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Dutch...
View ArticleJane Eyre Second Time Round
Standard YouTube LicenceNorthern Ballet Jane Eyre 13 April 2018, 19:45 Lyceum, SheffieldThe first time I saw Cathy Marston's Jane Eyre I described it as "one of the best new ballets I have seen all...
View ArticleBallet Cymru's 2018 Summer Tour
Standard YouTube LicenceFor its 2018 summer tour which opens in Newport on 11 May 2018, Ballet Cymru has revived Darius James and Amy Doughty's Cinderella. The first time I saw that beautiful ballet I...
View ArticleYouth Ballet Company Launch in London
Standard YouTube LicenceDanceworks off Oxford Street has always been a lot more than just dance studios. It is of course an excellent venue as I found for myself when I attended Hendrick January's...
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