World Ballet Day Highlights #1: The Royal Academy of Dance
World Ballet Day Trailer - Standard YouTube LicenceWorld Ballet Day came just as theatres and studios across the UK were emerging from a 7-month hibernation. It was a day of optimism. Sadly that...
View ArticleBethany Kingsley-Garner - A Ballerina with a Brand
Standard YouTube Licence In Ballet as a Brand? How to bring More Money into Dance for Companies and Dancers 13 March 2020 I quoted Alina Cojocaru:"Ballet careers are relatively short and require years...
View ArticleWorld Ballet Day Highlights #2 - The Royal New Zealand Ballet
Standard YouTube LicenceThe Royal New Zealand Ballet had a very successful tour of the UK five years ago. I attended and reviewed their performances of A Passing Cloud in Leeds on 4 Nov 2015 and...
View ArticleSwan
Standard YouRuve LicenceScottish Ballet Swan 19 Nov 2020My most popular post by far has been Empire Blanc: Dawson's Swan Lake 4 June 2016, my review of Scottish Ballet's performance of David Dawson's...
View ArticleSo what is the Dutch Style?
Standard YouTube LicenceThat was a question that I put to Ernst Meisner in the Q&A following his interview by Graham Watts in the London Ballet Circle's Zoom call last night. I asked Ernst that...
View ArticleDance in Nigeria
Standard YouTube LicenceYesterday I took part in a webinar entitled "The Business of Dance" which was organized by the Intellectual Property Lawyers Association of Nigeria. My fellow panellists were...
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Meet Amedeo Giunta of the Plovdiv Opera House Ballet
Amadeo Giunta© 2020 Amadeo Giunta A few weeks ago I joined KNT's Saturday online intermediate class and met a new teacher, He asked us to bear with him because it was the first time that he had...
View ArticleScottish Ballet's Secret Theatre
Standard YouTube LicenceScottish Ballet's Feature Film The Secret Theatre 21 Dec 2020A little boy (Leo Tetten) bounces his football off a soot-stained wall in Victorian Glasgow. He dribbles it across a...
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Dutch National Ballet's Christmas Gala
Artur Shesterikov in Hans van Manen's 5 TangosPhoto Hans Geritsen © 2020 Dutch National Ballet Dutch National Ballet Christmas Gala 19 Dec 2020 19:15 GMTEven though it was performed without an audience...
View ArticleBallet Rising
Standard YouTube LicenceOne of my favourite principals at the Dutch National Ballet was Casey Herd. He impressed me in Dawson's Empire Noir. Brandsen's Mata Hari and many other works. He continues to...
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Hans van Manen Variations
aAdagio HammerklavierMaria Chugai, Daniel Silva, Luiza Bertha, James Stout, Elisabeth Tonev, Vito MazzeoAuthor Hans Gerritsen © 2021 Dutch National Ballet: all rights reservedDutch National Ballet Hans...
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Plato's Cave, Ballet, Bernstein and Blogging
As I relished the pleasure of running and jumping on a sprung floor to the instructions of our esteemed teacher in the company of my dear friends and acquaintances I was reminded of a story that I...
View ArticleOne Balmy August Evening - My Memory of Carla Fracci
Standard YouTube LicenceAt the end of July and the first few days of August 1970. American Ballet Theatre visited the Royal Opera House. They brought such great names as Cynthia Gregory, Sallie...
View ArticleDancing Outdoors in Castlefield
Standard YouTube LicenceCastlefield is where Manchester began. It is where we meet to celebrate and commiserate. I remember doing a little bit of both before a big screen one late summer evening in...
View ArticleNixon - An Appreciation
Standard YouTube LicenceOn 28 May 2021, Northern Ballet announced the retirement of its artistic director, David Nixon (see David Nixon OBE steps down as Artistic Director of Northern Ballet after 20...
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Everything Happens on a Tuesday!
AuthorPd4u Licence Kopimi Source WikimediaSince Northern Ballet moved its improvers' class from Wednesday to Tuesday in September I have had to make the heartbreaking choice between joining my...
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A Coppelia for our Times
Author Jean Raoux Pygmalion in Love with his StatueA show to which I am particularly looking forward is Jess and Morgs's Coppelia for Scottish Ballet. It will be premiered at next year's Edinburgh...
View ArticleCelebrating Beethoven's 250th Birthday
Standard YouTube LicenceDutch National Ballet Prometheus and Grosse Fugue Livestreamed from Amsterdam 8 June 2021 19:15Just over 6 years ago I attended a panel discussion advertised as a State of the...
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Muntagirov's Masterclass
Vadim Muntagirov and Alina CojocaruAuthor ASH Licence CCO 1,0 Source Wikimedia Commons I have just noticed that Danceworks has arranged for Vadim Muntagirov to give a 90-minute master class between...
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Giselle Re-imagined
Lichfield CathedralAuthor Nina-no Licence CC BY-SA 3.0 Source Wikimedia Ballet Cymru, Giselle Livestream from Lichfield Cathedral, 8 July 2021 19:30Ballet Cymru is not a big company. If one consults...
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