English National Ballet's Swan Lake: Kanehara conquers the Empire
Standard YouTube LicenceEnglish National Ballet Swan Lake Liverpool Empire 23 Nov 2018, 19:30 There are a lot of shows that call themselves Swan Lake but unless they turn on the impersonation of...
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More than a Bit Differently: Ballet Cymru's Workshop and the Launch of the...
"We are a ballet company who like to do things a bit differently", proclaim Ballet Cymru on their home page. "We enjoy finding new ways to make what we do exciting, innovative and relevant." They can...
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Christmas at the Dancehouse
Reproduced with kind permission of the Dancehouse TheatreManchester City Ballet Christmas at the Dancehouse 7 Dec 2918, 19:30, The Dancehouse, ManchesterWhenever I can I take the train to Oxford Road...
View ArticleBallet Cymru's Dylan Thomas Programme: The Company's Best Work Ever
Standard YouTuvbe LicenceBallet Cymru Dylan Thomas – A Child’s Christmas, Poems and Tiger Eggs 29 Nov 2018 Stanley and Audrey Burton Theatre, Leeds, 1 Dec 2018 Pontio Arts and Innovation Centre,...
View ArticleNorthern Ballet's "The Nutcracker" - All My Favourite Artists in the Same Show
Standard YouTube LicenceNorthern Ballet The Nutcracker 12 Dec 2019 19:00 Leeds Grand Theatre Northern Ballet does a very good version of The Nutcracker. I have seen a lot of productions of that...
View ArticleCinderella in the Stopera
Standard YouTube LicenceDutch National Ballet Cinderella 22 Dec 2018 , 20:00, Stopera, Amsterdam In July 2015 the Dutch National Ballet performed Christopher Wheeldon's Cinderella at the Coliseum. It...
View ArticleThe Nutcracker returns to the Royal Albert Hall
Standard YouTube LicenceBirmingham Royal Ballet The Nutcracker 29 Dec 2019 14:00 Royal Albert HallEach of the five largest ballet companies of the United Kingdom has a version of The Nutcracker in its...
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Powerhouse Ballet January Update
Fiona NoonanOn 16 Sept Terry Etheridge held a workshop in Leeds where he created a beautiful ballet for us. He invited not only the dancers he had selected for the piece at an audition that we had...
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Ballet West's Best Show Ever
Ballet West The Nutcracker McRobert Centre, Stirling 2 Feb 2019 19:30Ballet West is a ballet school on the outskirts of a little village not far from Oban. Every winter it tours Scotland with a...
View ArticleHampson's Cinderella: Coming up Roses
Standard YouTube LicenceScottish Ballet Cinderella Theatre Royal, Newcastle, 1 Feb 2019I first saw Christopher Hampson's Cinderella in Edinburgh on 19 Dec 2015 and I loved it (see Scottish Ballet's...
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A Fille that owes Nothing to Ashton or Lanchbery
Krasnoyarsk State Opera HouseAuthor MaxBioHazard Licence Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 InternationalSourceWikipedia KrasnojarskThe Russian State Ballet of Siberia La Fille mal gardée 15...
View ArticleDawson's "Requiem"
Standard YouTube LicenceDutch National BalletRequirem Music Theatre (Stopera) Amsterdam, 27 Feb 2019, 20:15David Dawson's Requiem is a double bill of two of that choreographer's recent works: Citizen...
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An Exceptional Weekend
Through following the Dutch National Ballet I made the acquaintance of the Dutch teacher and choreographer Yvonne Charlton. Yvonne is married to an Englishman and visits this country frequently. On...
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Meet Maria Chugai of the Dutch National Ballet
Maria Chugai as MyrthaLast November I witnessed a remarkable performance of Giselle by the Dutch National Ballet. I saw it not in Amsterdam but in Heerlen, a former mining town in the far southeast of...
View ArticleA Great Send-off for a Great Lady
Standard YouTube LicenceNorthern Ballet Victoria, Leeds Grand Theatre, 16 March 2019, 19:30Victoria may have been the title rôle but the star of last night's show was Pippa Moore who danced Princess...
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Phoenix Comes of Age with its Rite of Spring
The original cast of the Rite of Spring, Paris 2013Phoenix Dance Theatre The Rite of Spring The Lowry, 8 March 2019 In my review of Windrush, Movement of the People 8 Feb 2018, I described the work as...
View ArticleStunning - Ballet Black's Triple Bill
Standard YouTube LicenceBallet Black, Triple Bill (Pendulum, Click! Ingoma) Barbican Theatre, 17 March 2019 15:00I see a lot of dance every year and one of my highlights is Ballet Black. I usually...
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Chelmsford Ballet's Seventieth Anniversary Show
Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies DancingAuthor: Willliam BlakeSource Wikipedia, A Midsummer Night's DreamChelmsford Ballet Company A Midsummer Night's Dream 20 March 2019 19:30 Chelmsford Civic...
View ArticleVan Dantzig's "Swan Lake"
Standard YouTube LicenceDutch National Ballet Swan LakeThe Music Theatre, Amsterdam, 24 March 2019, 14:00Rudi van Dantzig is one of three towering geniuses who have given Dutch ballet its reputation...
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Made in Wales
© 2019 Sian Trebart: all rights reservedReproduced with kind permission of Ballet CymruBallet Cymru Made in Wales Dance House, Cardiff, 22 March 2019 19:30One of the reasons why the Dutch National...
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