Hello & welcome to Ballet News

Hello, and a very warm welcome to my website Ballet News. It’s lovely to see you here ! Please have a look around, put up your feet, sip that Apple Martini or Earl Grey tea and I even have cupcakes …

I am an accredited journalist bringing you worldwide breaking Ballet News including press releases, reviews, backstage, rehearsal and performance photographs and videos, interviews with dancers & vocational students, backstage news, casting, ‘Cupcakes & Conversation with….’ & everything in between.

Ballet News’ raison d’être

Ballet News’ raison d’être is to bring you ballet & to do that I work independently.  I am also commissioned in a wide variety of print media.

What else ? Well, I’ve been a shoe-a-holic since I was found, aged 8 or so, in the bottom of my Aunt’s wardrobe trying on all her shoes (she had many).

My favourite poem is ‘The road not taken’ by Robert Frost. An excerpt : “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.”

My favourite quote is : “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too, can become great.” Mark Twain (& Tracy Jones).

And I’ll end with a saying I once found etched on a castle wall on my travels :  “The art of being a good host is to make your guests feel at home. The art of being a good guest, is to remember that you are not.”

I hope you enjoy reading Ballet News and please do get in touch if you have ballet related subjects you’d like to know more about or see featured here, or if you have relevant questions for me. It’s always great to hear from Ballet Newsers!