Flash Back to the 80s
Standard YouTube LicenceJazzgalore (NBS Musical Theatre Dance Co.). Flash Back to the 80s 24 March 2018, 19:30 The Dancehouse, ManchesterNorthern Ballet School in Manchester claims to be "an...
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Vampires
The VampireAuthor Philip Burne-JonesKNTs Day of Dance at the Dancehouse was a great success. I got some valuable tips on arabesques and développés from Rachael Crocker that everyone else seems to know...
View ArticleKNT Danceworks Day of Day - A Couple of Postscripts
Standard YouTube LicenceTwo postscripts to Vampires, my write up on yesterdays' Day of Dance at the Dancehouse,The first is that Karen has posted the video of our performance of Daethon and Arundel to...
View ArticleBallet West in Genting
Standard YouTube LicenceThis week and next the Ballet West International Touring Company will perform Swan Lake and will give a series of masterclasses at the Genting International Showroom at Genting...
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Not quite blown away but still a good show - "Swan Lake" with Rodkin and...
Queen's View, PerthshireAuthor Peter HermansLicence Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 unportedSt Petersburg Ballet Theatre Swan Lake 23 Aug 2018 19:30Three years ago, my friend Gita and I...
View ArticleKNT's Day of Dance: Rachael's Musical Theatre Class
Standard YouTube LicenceI described KNT's Day of Dance last Saturday in Vampires (19 Aug 2018). While I was trying to dance like a vampire in Karen Sant's class Rachael Crocker was teaching this...
View ArticleDutch National Ballet's Gala 2018: A very special evening with a very special...
Dutch National Ballet Gala 2018 Stopera, 8 Sept 2018, 19:30I described the Dutch National Ballet'a gala in 2015 as "The Best Evening I have ever spent at the Ballet" 13 Sept 2015. I meant it even...
View ArticleNorthern Ballet's Mixed Programme
Standard YouTube LicenceNorthern Ballet Mixed Programme (The Kingdom of Back, Mamela, The Shape of Sound) Stanley and Audrey Burton Theatre, Leeds 15 Sep 2018, 19:30A triple bill should be balanced...
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Dylan Thomas – A Child’s Christmas, Poems and Tiger Eggs
© 2018 Sleepy Robot If I were washed up on Sue Lawley's desert island with a DVD player and had seconds to rescue discs from the jaws of a sea monster, Cerys Matthews's TIR would be one for which I...
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A Ballet Circle for the North
Photo Gita Mistry© 2018 Gita Mistry: all rights reservedThe London Ballet Circle was founded in the year that the company that was to become the Royal Ballet returned to Covent Garden for its legendary...
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The Beggar's Opera
Opéra des Nations© 2018 Jane Elizabeth Lambert: All rights reservedThéâtre des Bouffes du Nord The Beggar's OperaOpéra des Nations, Geneva 7 Oct 2018, 15:00Before I saw the show I thought I would have...
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"Portrait" - Michaela DePrince
Michaela DePrince "Portrait" Dutch National Ballet's Gala 8 Sept 2018Photo Michel Schnater© 2018 Dutch National Ballet: all rights reservedReproduced with kind permission of the companyMichaela...
View ArticleBallet West's Winter Tour ................... and a bit of McGonegall
Standard YouTube LicenceNot long now before Ballet West's tour of Scotland. Once again they are dancing The Nutcracker. They danced that ballet at Pitlochry the first time I ever saw them. My review...
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Ernst Meisner's "Embers" - One of the Highlights of the Dutch National...
Cristiano Principato and Jessica Xuan in EmbersAuthor Michel Schnater© 2018 Dutch National Ballet, all rights reserved Reproduced with kind permission of the companyCristiano Principato and Jessica...
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Van Dantzig's "Swan Lake"
Anna Ol and Artur ShesterikovAuthor Michel Schnater© 2018 Dutch National Ballet, all rights reservedReproduced courtesy of the companyAnna Ol and Artur Shesterikov White Swan Pas de Deux, Swan Lake...
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Scottish Ballet dancers and their pointe shoes
Why would a Scottish Ballet dancer carry a Stanley knife and a hammer? Find out courtesy of Scotland's Sunday Post newspaper:...
View ArticleFrench Revelation: "The Three Musketeers"
Standard YouTube LicenceNorthern Ballet The Three Musketeers The Lyceum, Sheffield, 27 Oct 2018, 19:45Coincidentally the last three ballets that I have seen have been set in pre-revolutionary France....
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Ballet Cymru Workshop
A workshop that is a little bit different28 Nov 2018 Yorkshire Dance 18:00 - 19:30 Ballet Cymru describe themselves as "a ballet company who like to do things a bit differently." They enjoy finding...
View ArticleNothing Wrong with this La Bayadère
Standard YouTube LicenceRoyal Ballet La Bayadère Royal Opera House 3 Nov 2018 13:30It is often said that only the Russians can do La Bayadère. In one online forum to which I subscribe, I have read the...
View ArticleMooie!
Standard YouTube LicenceDutch National Ballet GiselleTheater Heerlen 9 Nov 2018, 19:30 I overheard the word "mooie" a lot in snatches of conversation in the bar of Theater Heerlen during the interval...
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