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Arts Council of Wales grants to Dance in Wales
The Arts Council of Wales has published its portfolio allocations for 2015-2016 and recommendations for 2016-2017 and has some good news for Ballet Cymru. The company's grant will increase to £193,842...
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Clara SuperfinePhoto: Michel SchnaterCopyright 2016 Dutch National Ballet, all rights reservedReproduction licensed by the companyAnother lovely photo of the Dutch National Ballet Junior Company's...
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More Photos of Mata Hari
Mata Hari's vision of the god Shiva danced by Young Gyu ChoiPhoto Marc HaegemanCopyright 2016 Dutch National Ballet All rights reservedThe Dutch National Ballet's Mata Hari ended its run on Friday to...
View ArticleCelebrating our wonderful pianist
In Realizing a Dream 12 Sept 2013 I described my first ballet class with Northern Ballet Academy. It was a very special day and one of the reasons why it was special was that we had an excellent...
View ArticleA Good Outcome from an Unhappy Event - Singleton's Fine Performance
Romeo and Juliet 2016 tour trailer from Birmingham Royal Ballet on Vimeo. The Birmingham Royal Ballet, Romeo and Juliet, The Lowry Theatre, 5 March 2016Sometimes a good outcome can result from an...
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Mata Hari as an Exotic Dancer
Anna Tsygankova as Mata HariPhoto Marc HaegemanCopyright 2016 Dutch National Ballet, all rights reservedReproduction licensed by kind permission of the companyAfter her marriage ended, Margaretha...
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Wie Lange Noch
Thomas van Damme and Emilie TassinariPhoto Michel SchnaterCopyright 2016 Dutch National BalletReproduction licensed with kind permission of the companyAll rights reservedDutch National Ballet Junior...
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Trois Gnossiennes
Melissa Chapski and Giovanni PrincicPhoto Michel SchnaterCopyright 2016 Dutch National Ballet, All rights reservedReproduction licensed by kind permission of the companyHans van Manen has delighted...
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Up the Swannee
The Swannee River, USASource WikipediaNorthern Ballet, "Swan Lake", Leeds Grand Theatre, 12 March 19:30The Leeds Grand Theatre was packed to the gunnels for the last performance of Northern Baller's...
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Thank you Ernst!
Dutch National Ballet, Junior Company, "No Time Before Time"Photo Michel Schnater(c) 2016 Dutch National Ballet, all rights reservedReproduced with kind permission of the companyI hate panning a show...
View ArticleCambriophilia
Reproduced under standard YouTube LicenceNational Dance Company of Wales, Triple Bill, Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield, 10 March 2016"We have Anglophile and Francophile, but what do we call...
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Ballet Black at the Barbican
Barbican CentreAuthor Tom Morris (Talk)Creative Commons LicenceSource Wikipedia Ballet Black, Triple Bill, Barbican, 19 March 2016Since 2008, I have followed Ballet Black. Every year...
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MOVE IT 2016
Excel Centre, LondonSource WikipediaHaving been billed as "The UK's Biggest Dance Event ...... with 22,000 dancers - three days - performances, classes, career advice, celebrities, interviews and...
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Dance Like A Knight - Romeo and Juliet Intensives
Every time I hear Prokofiev's Dance of the Knights from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet my spine tingles and I come out in goose bumps. Whenever I ask a young male dancer what would be his favourite rule...
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A Real Beauty: Chelmsford Ballet's The Sleeping Beauty
Marion Pettet as Carabosse(c) 2016 Chelmsford Ballet Company, all rights reservedReproduction licensed by the companyChelmsford Ballet Company, The Sleeping Beauty, Chelmsford Civic Theatre, 19 March...
View ArticleA Good Month for Chantry Dance
Chantry Dance at Move It 2016 Standard YouTube LicenceMove It 2016 was billed as "The UK's Biggest Dance Event ...... with 22,000 dancers - three days - performances, classes, career advice,...
View ArticleThe Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Standard YouTube LicenceOne of the stands for which I was looking out when I visited MOVE IT 2016 last week last week was that of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. There were several reasons for...
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The Mariinsky Theatre's Primorsky Stage
Attribution ShareAlike 2.5Source WikipediaCreative Commons LicenceVladivostok is 4,067 miles from St Petersburg as the crow flies yet it appears to host an outpost of the Mariinsky Theatre known as the...
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Ballet Black's Friends Scheme
Cira Robinson, Linbury Studio Theatre, 14 Feb 2015Photo Jane Lambert(c) 2015 Jane Lambert, al l rights reservedIt is extraordinarily generous for the artistic director of one company to promote another...
View ArticleCuthbertson's Giselle
Standard YouTube LicenceRoyal Ballet, Giselle, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2 April 2016In an interview with the journalist Mark Moynihan which is transcribed in the Royal Ballet's programme notes...
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