Acosta Danza – Evolution: Rooster, Faun, Satori & Paysage, Soudain, la nuit –...
★★★★✰ It’s thrilling to see the building confidence of Carlos Acosta’s Cuban-based dance company. There’s a sense of cohesion, shared purpose and a unique identity drawn from a vibrant range of...
View ArticleSome Memorable Performances of 2019 – London
Lynette Halewood with some reflections on London dance performances over the last year - the good and the less good...
View ArticleGallery – Acosta Danza in Up Close: Mundo Interpretado and Two
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
View ArticleAcosta Danza – Up Close bill – London
★★★✰✰ This was indeed a case of Up Close and personal with five intimate pieces variously dosed with Cuban fire and flair...
View ArticleMarianela Núñez on one of her fav ballets, La Fille mal gardée, and life...
Marianela Núñez talks about one of her favourite ballets, "La Fille mal gardée", and life under lockdown, which for Marianela has been in Argentina. "La Fille mal gardee", one of the most loved works...
View ArticleRoyal Ballet – La Fille mal gardée – streamed archive recording of 2005...
★★★★★ If you want an antidote to any miserable lockdown mood, La Fille mal gardée cannot fail to lift your spirits and allow you to marvel at some really first-rate dancing.
View ArticleCarlos Acosta in Lockdown
Carlos Acosta chats to Graham Watts about how things are going after his first few months at the artistic helm of Birmingham Royal Ballet & the impact that Covid-19 has had on his plans...
View ArticleEnglish National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer 2020 Competition – 5 Questions to 6...
English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer Competition is unique in British ballet in throwing the spotlight on more junior dancers or "the excellence of the Company’s young talent,” as ENB put it. This...
View ArticleBirmingham Royal Ballet return to stage with Lazuli Sky world premiere and...
Bruce Marriott, seeing live work for the first time in months, chose to dive in to an evening of new Birmingham Royal Ballet works including a world premiere - Will Tuckett's Lazuli Sky. He was glad he...
View ArticleBirmingham Royal Ballet – Lazuli Sky, Our Waltzes, Liebestod – London
★★★✰✰ Carlos Acosta, ten months in to his directorship of BRB, has provided it with a mixed bunch of shoots for a fresh start. Their first flowering may have been cut short by the closure of theatres...
View ArticleDane Hurst – new Artistic Director of Phoenix Dance Theatre
Graham Watts talks to the multi-talented and very much respected Dane Hurst as he is named as the new artistic director of ground breaking Phoenix Dance Theatre. Expect great things to come...
View ArticleBirmingham Royal Ballet – The Nutcracker at The REP – live streamed from...
★★★★★ That BRB managed to get this on at all is a small miracle - and the undiminished determination with which the dancers attack their work inspires passion in us all.
View ArticleSadler’s Wells and BBC Arts – Dancing Nation: Episode Two – London
★★✰✰✰ Episode Two of Dancing Nation contains works by Humanhood (Júlia Robert and Rudi Cole), Botis Seva for Far From the Norm, Will Tuckett for Birmingham Royal Ballet, Oona Doherty, Boy Blue and...
View ArticleBirmingham Royal Ballet and Carlos Acosta invest in the future
Birmingham Royal Ballet's new Nutcracker streaming is very much about investing in company and student dancers (from the Royal Ballet School and Elmhurst Ballet School) at the most difficult of times...
View ArticleBirmingham Royal Ballet – Curated By Carlos: City of a Thousand Trades,...
★★★✰✰ A night of premieres for BRB this week with two World premieres (from Miguel Altunaga and Daniela Cardim) and one British premiere (from Goyo Montero) in their latest triple bill - "Curated By...
View ArticleKenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Ballet and the Birmingham...
Both the Royal Ballet and Birmingham Royal Ballet are opening their 2021/22 seasons with the same ballet - Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet. Jann Parry takes a look at how one of the most admired...
View ArticleBirmingham Royal Ballet in Radio and Juliet, Rosie Kay Dance Company in Romeo...
★★★✰✰ Birmingham Royal Ballet's latest bill, Carlos Curates: R&J Reimagined, had the company dancing in Edward Clug's Radio and Juliet (★★✰✰✰) and presenting Rosie Kay Dance Company in their new...
View ArticleGallery – Alessandra Ferri and Carlos Acosta in new Goyo Montero Chacona duet
Alessandra Ferri and Carlos Acosta perform the world premiere of a new pas de deux, by Goyo Montero, as part of an extended version of Montero's Chacona. The work can be seen in Birmingham Royal...
View ArticleBirmingham Royal Ballet – Curated by Carlos triple bill with Acosta and Ferri...
★★★✰✰ "These two extraordinary ballet stars gave a masterclass in elegant partnering, Ferri precise on pointe and soaring in a demanding series of lifts, Acosta charismatic, graceful and gracious."
View ArticleSpecial Gallery: A Day in the Life of BRB – Birmingham Royal Ballet
DanceTabs photographer Foteini Christofilopoulou recently spent the day with Birmingham Royal Ballet starting with company class, followed by rehearsals of two works involving the company with Miguel...
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