Dance
Polyphonia/ Sweet Violets/ Carbon Life, Royal BalletFriday, 06 April 2012
All year we've had to wait for a world premiere, and two come along at once. Last night was built to make some noise about the three most impressive young names in Royal Ballet choreography, and that will be where the PR story ends, but not where... Read more... |
Birmingham Royal Ballet splits in halfThursday, 05 April 2012Reaching parts of the country that otherwise it couldn't reach, Birmingham Royal Ballet is to do a split tour of mixed ballets across the UK's theatres, one group travelling to south and west, the other going north and east.Now in its ninth year,... Read more... |
Anna Karenina, Eifman Ballet of St Petersburg, London ColiseumWednesday, 04 April 2012
An apocryphal story tells of an awful theatrical adaptation of the story of Anne Frank. When the Nazis arrive to search the house where the family are in hiding, an enraged theatre-goer shouts, “She’s in the attic!” Well, I didn’t quite point Anna... Read more... |
Five new Rambert choreographersTuesday, 03 April 2012Rambert's fine dancers turn choreographer in a new season of four creations to be shown at the Southbank Centre on 31 May. In keeping with the high-quality ethos of the company, each has a new music commission with it, played live by members of the... Read more... |
Edinburgh International Festival 2012Tuesday, 03 April 2012
The Edinburgh International Festival runs this year from 9 August to 2 September, with an energetically global look. Forty-seven nations - around a third of the world's countries - are represented in a conscious reflection of the focus of the London... Read more... |
Cash for arts: should it be bums-per-pound or pounds-per-bum?Saturday, 31 March 2012
The organisation that channels public money to generate today's new classical music has been resoundingly condemned this week by all of Britain's most important composers. In an open letter, signed by Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Sir Peter Maxwell... Read more... |
Opinion: What ballet school is forFriday, 30 March 2012
How many classical ballet dancing jobs, full-time, are there in Great Britain? I make it just 289. That's the Royal Ballet 94, English National Ballet 67, Birmingham Royal Ballet 57, Scottish Ballet 36, Northern Ballet 35. Rambert does sometimes... Read more... |
Apollo/ Jeux/ Suite en blanc, English National Ballet, London ColiseumThursday, 29 March 2012
Just a typical night at the ballet. The sun god rises with his goddesses, people play tennis and flirt in a garden, a handsome young chap struts his considerable stuff on a Twenties beach, and an array of white-tutu’d ballerinas perform deliciously... Read more... |
Ballet for £10 - English National Ballet reach outWednesday, 28 March 2012English National Ballet is offering best seats for its current London Coliseum season this week for £10 as it tries to broaden the potential ballet audience from the familiar pleasures of Swan Lake or The Nutcracker to the sophisticated delights and... Read more... |
Liz Forgan steps down as head of ACEFriday, 23 March 2012The Secretary of State for Culture, Jeremy Hunt, announced today that he will not reappoint Dame Liz Forgan as Chair of Arts Council England when her term ends in January 2013. Liz Forgan was appointed Arts Council England's Chair in February... Read more... |
Firebird/ Rite of Spring, English National Ballet, London ColiseumFriday, 23 March 2012
Two amazing things in one evening from a company totally at sixes and sevens artistically - it could only be English National Ballet. First amazing thing: the uncovering of a confident and stylish young choreographer straight from school. Second... Read more... |
Irek Mukhamedov dances again in LondonTuesday, 20 March 2012Former Royal Ballet leading star and Bolshoi hero Irek Mukhamedov is coming out of retirement to perform in Peter Schaufuss's Tchaikovsky Trilogy at the London Coliseum 23-28 July. He will be playing the roles of Rothbart in Swan Lake, the Queen’s... Read more... |
