16+ hour, 40+ min ago  (221+ words) The only downside to the performance was the less-than-ideal playing of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House under the baton of Martin Georgiev, which seemed to fall apart completely during the crucial pas de deux for Rudolf and Stephanie…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (111+ words) Mirror | Rite of Spring I know, I know, I'm missing the point. But perhaps so does Mirror?" Lydia wharf is an independent producer working in contemporary dance theatre, tending to specialise in practices of care, access and inclusion. She works…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago  (238+ words) Franz Kafka was just 40 when he died, and much of his work was unpublished in his lifetime. His executor and friend, Max Brod, disobeyed Kafka's instructions to destroy unpublished manuscripts after his death " without which defiance, the world would not…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago  (257+ words) Melissa Hamilton'will curate'a Night of Ballet'this summer at'Grange Park Opera. The Royal Ballet Principal will produce the first performance in England by'Hamilton Christou Productions,'following sold-out productions in Belfast and Singapore, on'Thursday 9 July. The evening's programme will feature performances of…...

1+ week, 14+ hour ago  (1256+ words) 2026 is the centenary year of The Royal Ballet School, and in order to celebrate this milestone, the school has organised a number of events. One, or rather three of these events, are Insights organised by Dr Anna Meadmore (Manager of…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (297+ words) Apart from Garkavenko, from Birmingham Royal Ballet, and Shapoval, the other dozen dancers were all from The Royal Ballet, and so one must applaud them and their director, Kevin O'Hare, for giving their time, in a very busy period, to…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (316+ words) New English Ballet Theatre, now in its fifteenth year, has long established itself as a company whose ambitions far outpace its resources. Starting as an early-career platform for young dancers and choreographers, it has evolved into an international touring ballet…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (545+ words) Voyages gone wrong have been story touch points from the novel Robinson Crusoe to the TV sitcom Gilligan's Island to the blockbuster film Titanic. It now fuels dance in'Songs from a Sinking Ship'premiering at San Francisco's Presidio Theatre on May…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (190+ words) Acid Gems | a Folia In this fleeting three-day visit to London, Nancy-based Ballet de Lorraine, one of several Centres Chor'graphiques Nationaux (CCN) scattered around France, brought two works unknown to British audiences. Almost twenty years ago, Linder won the Place…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (577+ words) Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone, Sala Santa Cecilia, Rome " 20 and 21 March These are times of conflict, and Les "toiles " the international dance gala curated by Daniele Cipriani " aims to "share its imaginative vision of a better world and convey…...