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Ballet Essentials: Kenneth MacMillan's Manon
Francesca Hayward as Manon, Thomas Whitehead as Monsieur G.M and Alexander Campbell as Lescaut in Manon ©ROH 2014. Photo by Alice Pennefather Manon is beautiful and impulsive, and loves romance almost...
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Ballet Essentials: Woolf Works
Alessandra Ferri and Artists of The Royal Ballet in Woolf Works, The Royal Ballet © 2015 ROH. Photograph by Tristram Kenton Dancing with Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf was an English writer and...
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Woolf Works Dance Highlight: Pas de deux of reminiscence in ‘I Now, I Then’
Alessandra Ferri and Francesca Hayward in Woolf Works, The Royal Ballet © 2015 ROH. Photograph by Tristram Kenton ‘I Now, I Then’, the first part of Wayne McGregor’s ballet triptych Woolf Works, draws...
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Ballet Essentials: The Sleeping Beauty
The Sleeping Beauty. The Royal Ballet. Sarah Lamb as Aurora and Steven McRae as Prince Florimund. October 2011. Photo by Johan Persson The Story Begins… King Florestan and his Queen have invited all...
View ArticleThe Winter’s Tale Dance Highlight: The trial scene
Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale has a vivid narrative, full of gripping twists and turns, finished with a fairytale ending – in many ways an obvious choice for a big story ballet. But much of the...
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After the Rain Dance Highlight: The pas de deux
Thiago Soares and Marianela Nuñez in rehearsal for After the Rain, The Royal Ballet © 2016 ROH. Photograph by Bill Cooper The pas de deux from Christopher Wheeldon’s 2005 ballet After the Rain opens...
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The Nutcracker Dance Highlight: The Waltz of the Snowflakes
The Corps de ballet in The Royal Ballet's Nutcracker © ROH, 2013 Levitating children, on-stage explosions, astonishing magic tricks and a spectacular, growing Christmas tree – The Nutcracker is packed...
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Monotones II Dance Highlight: Complete harmony of choreography and score
Edward Watson, Marianela Nunez and Federico Bonelli in Monotones II © ROH/Tristram Kenton, 2013 Frederick Ashton created Monotones II for a 1965 gala performance in aid of The Royal Ballet Benevolent...
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Tchaikovsky Pas de deux Dance highlight: A thrilling, virtuoso dance for two
Lauren Cuthbertson and Matthew Golding in rehearsal for Tchaikovsky Pas de deux, The Royal Ballet © 2015 ROH. Photograph by Andrej Uspenski In 1953, a long-lost musical score was discovered in the...
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Viscera Dance Highlight: The final movement
Laura Morera, Alexander Campbell and Tristan Dyer in Viscera, The Royal Ballet © ROH/Andrej Uspenski, 2012 Liam Scarlett made his American choreographic debut in 2012 with Viscera – an abstract,...
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Connectome Dance Highlight: The ‘Silouan’s Song’ pas de deux
Natalia Osipova and Edward Watson in Connectome © ROH/Bill Cooper, 2015 Ballet and science: apparently alien disciplines – but are they more closely linked than you might think? In recent years,...
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Romeo and Juliet Dance Highlight: The Balcony pas de deux
Lauren Cuthbertson as Juliet and Federico Bonelli as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet © Bill Cooper/ROH 2012 ‘O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?’ – perhaps the most famous line in English literature,...
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Dance Essentials: Carlos Acosta’s Cubanía
Carlos Acosta in Edwaard Liang's Sight Unseen ©ROH. / Bill Cooper, 2014 Carlos Acosta: Dancer and Choreographer Royal Ballet Principal Guest Artist Carlos Acosta is one of the most acclaimed ballet...
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Cubanía Dance Highlight: the Tocororo pas de deux
Carlos Acosta's Tocororo ©ROH. Bill Cooper, 2014 Carlos Acosta’s Tocororo is the semi-autobiographical tale of a young Cuban ballet dancer discovering life and love on the streets of Havana. A sizzling...
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Divertissements Ballet Essentials: A guide to short works performed by The...
Alexander Campbell and Yuhui Choe in Voices of Spring © ROH/Tristram Kenton, 2013 Voices of Spring Frederick Ashton created the Voices of Spring pas de deux as a divertissement for The Royal Opera’s...
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In the Night Dance Highlight: A stormy pas de deux
Alina Cojocaru in In the Night, The Royal Ballet © ROH/Tristram Kenton, 2012 Jerome Robbins’s In the Night is an insightful depiction of love’s twists and turns. The choreographer’s belief that ‘dance...
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Ballet Essentials: Afternoon of a Faun / In the Night / Song of the Earth
Sarah Lamb and Carlos Acosta in Afternoon of a Faun, The Royal Ballet © Dee Conway Afternoon of a Faun A Miniature Masterpiece Afternoon of a Faun, a relatively early ballet by American choreographer...
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Woolf Works Dance Highlight: Pas de deux of reminiscence in ‘I Now, I Then’
Alessandra Ferri and Francesca Hayward in rehearsals for Woolf Works © 2015 ROH. Photograph by Tristram Kenton ‘I Now, I Then’, the first part of Wayne McGregor’s ballet triptych Woolf Works, draws on...
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Ballet Essentials: Woolf Works
Alessandra Ferri and Edward Watson in rehearsal for Woolf Works, The Royal Ballet © 2015 ROH. Photograph by Andrej Uspenski Dancing with Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf was an English writer and...
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La Fille mal gardée Dance Highlight: The Pas de ruban (Ribbon dance)
Marianela Nuñez as Lise and Carlos Acosta as Colas in La Fille mal gardée © Bill Cooper Since its premiere in 1960, Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée has become one of his best-loved works, and a...
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