The outgoing director has smartly updated Glazunov and Petipa’s 1898 ballet, making its heroine a Crimean War nurse torn between suitors Mark Monahan never really stood a chance. In the Sixties, his ...

Swansong, choreographed by Christopher Bruce for Festival Ballet in a conscientious response to rising world protests at the disappearance of loved ones into the oblivion of Chilean prisons, seemed to ...

The intrigue is that all three companies cut against their usual grain. ENB and Scottish both went for contemporary choreographers better known with modern dance troupes - ENB for Itzik Galili, a ...

Mark Monahan never really stood a chance: in the Sixties, his mother danced for five years with what was then the Royal Ballet Touring Company; meanwhile, his father was the first and still ...

The Royal may have pipped ENB to the post this autumn in becoming the first British company to acquire a Mark Morris ballet. But the smaller troupe should still be feeling pretty smug about their ...

Ballet changed forever when Serge Diaghilev brought a visiting troupe of dancers from St Petersburg to Paris 100 years ago. There are galas and exhibitions and concerts to mark the centenary, ...

The ENB under Tamara Rojo continues to build a world-class company by proudly embracing, encouraging and promoting its very youngest talent. Six new dancers, fresh from dance schools and some still in ...

The Royal Ballet and English National Ballet have received 20 nominations between them for the National Dance Awards. The awards, now in its 15th year, also includes a new emerging artist category.

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