Dance
Royal Ballet, The Nutcracker, Royal Opera HouseTuesday, 21 May 20138 Dec-15 Jan - Peter Wright's beautiful, high-style staging ofThe Nutcracker to Tchaikovsky's ever-magical music Casts: Dec 8, 13 M arquez/McRae Dec 10, 14 Nunez/Soares Dec 11, 23M, Jan 2M Morera/Bonell i Dec 27M Hamilton/Trzensimiech Dec 27E, Jan... Read more... |
Sylvie Guillem, 6000 Miles Away, Sadler's Wells TheatreTuesday, 21 May 2013
People go to see Sylvie Guillem the way they used to go to Isadora Duncan or Anna Pavlova, to see a living legend, a game-changer. Guillem became one of dance’s handful of game-changers not when she was the controversially over-fashioned classical... Read more... |
Sylvie Guillem, 6000 Miles Away, Sadler's WellsWednesday, 15 May 201320-25 May: The great ballerina Sylvie Guillem returns with her critically lauded evening of work by three of today’s most important choreo graphers, created originally with Sadler's Wells in support of Japanese su ffering in the 2011 tsunami. The... Read more... |
BRB Far From the Madding Crowd, Birmingham HippodromeWednesday, 15 May 201320-23 Jun, Far From the Madding Crowd, Birmingham Hippodrome.Thomas Hardy's novel about Bathsheba Everdene and her fatal attractivenes s to three men was adapted by David Bintley into a ballet with music by Pau l Reade, who also composed Hobson's... Read more... |
Birmingham Royal Ballet, Sadler's WellsWednesday, 15 May 201315-19 Oct: BRB in two programmes - a triple bill of David Bintl ey's dances, including his beautiful indigo-coloured Tombeaux and the popu lar animals of Penguin Café (15... Read more... |
Giselle, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Birmingham HippodromeWednesday, 15 May 201319-22 June 2013, Giselle, Birmingham Hippodrome. David Bintle y and Galina Samsova’s production, designed by Hayden Griffin. In the ruin s of an abbey Giselle tries to stop the ghosts from killing the man who bet rayed her love. Giselle stands... Read more... |
Bolshoi Ballet, La Bayadère, ROHWednesday, 15 May 2013Bolshoi Ballet season 29th July - 17th August; three-week seas on Despite the horror of the sulphuric acid attack on the Bolshoi directorSergei Filin, the season goes ahead with familiar stars Svetlana Zakharov a, Maria Alexandrova and rising star... Read more... |
Play Without Words, New Adventures, Sadler's WellsWednesday, 15 May 201312 July-5 August, Sadler’s Wells: Matthew Bourne’s award-winni ng Play Without Words, originally premiered at the National Theatre in 200 2, returns afresh in a four-week season. A funny, sinister society powe r-play in the vein of Joseph Losey's... Read more... |
Israel Galván, Sadler's WellsWednesday, 15 May 201315-27 March: the annual Flamenco Festival features this year a stellar array of artists in Spain's superb song and dance form. 17 March : Farruquito, a star of flamenco puro. 18 March: Estrella Morente, reno wned singer daughter of singer Enrique... Read more... |
Mikhailovsky Ballet, Duato triple bill, London ColiseumWednesday, 15 May 201326 March-7 April: a 2-week season by St Petersburg's "other" ba llet company, the Mikhailovsky Ballet, making its 3rd visit to London. nBallets by Nacho Duato, in addition to classics Giselle, Don Quixote, a nd Laurencia, will feature Mikhailovsky... Read more... |
Tango Fire, Flames of Desire, Peacock TheatreWednesday, 15 May 201330 Jan- 24 Feb: Argentina’s Tango Fire returns to London with i ts latest production, Flames of Desire, a seductive journey through the h istory of tango – tracing its roots in Buenos Aires before moving through t he decades to showcase its growing... Read more... |
New English Ballet Theatre, Sadler's WellsWednesday, 15 May 20134-8 July, Sadler’s Wells: Set up to nurture the talents of a n ew generation of dancers, choreographers, musicians, artists and designe rs, New English Ballet Theatre, whose patrons include Darcey Bussell and Carlos Acosta, make their debut season... Read more... |
