Carlos Acosta, artistic director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, aims to get new audiences with a fusion of classical ballet and heavy metal music. Two incompatible worlds collide. The production celebrat ...
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La Fille mal gardée sounds like the title of a naughty French boulevard farce, but Frederick Ashton’s ballet, designed by Osbert Lancaster, could not be more English. Pastorally pure and innocent, it ...
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Five international female choreographers, working in different locations and different languages, produce six separate abstract pieces, each lasting about fifteen minutes, to celebrate women and Birmi ...
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One of my earliest ballet memories was seeing Margot Fonteyn dance Princess Aurora in the notoriously difficult Rose Adage – one of classical ballet’s great moments. Courted by four suitors, Fonteyn w ...
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