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Ballet News Reviews | The Healthy Dancer – ABT Guidelines for Dancer Health Taking their responsibilities as a national ballet company resposibly, American Ballet Theatre brought together a medical advisory board to help with health guidelines in their National Training Curriculum. The medical professionals involved were from a wide range of disciplines – physical therapy, sports [...]

Ballet News reviews | First Position First Position is a documentary film, following the fortunes of seven children between the ages of 10-17 (during filming) as they compete for scholarships at the Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) in 2010. YAGP is an annual competition for students aged 9-19 and the final is held in New York, where only [...]

Ballet News Reviews | English National Ballet’s Programme 1 | L’Après-midi d’un faune, Faun(e), World Premiere Firebird, The Rite of Spring English National Ballet Programme One – L’Après-midi d’un faune, Faun(e), World Premiere Firebird, The Rite of Spring London Coliseum Thursday March 22nd 2012 In this programme, and for the most part, the dancers and artistic [...]

The Royal Ballet Lower School in ITV show In this programme, called Those I Have Shot, actor David Suchet follows in the footsteps of his Fleet Street press photographer grandfather, James Jarché. Suchet’s aim is to discover what it was like for Jarché to be sent on an assignment and “told not to come back unless [...]

Ballet News Reviews | Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Coppélia Coppélia Birmingham Royal Ballet London Coliseum Thursday, 15th March 2012 This was a night when yet again, the men of Birmingham Royal Ballet showed just how awesome they are.  This time, eight of them in perfect synchronicity, taking off, spinning and landing together, each time.  And I have [...]

Ballet News Reviews | Birmingham Royal Ballet Spring Passions Spring Passions – Daphnis and Chloë/The Two Pigeons Birmingham Royal Ballet London Coliseum Tuesday, 13th March 2012 For every saucepan, there’s a lid. But how they became separated and what happens along the way, well, that’s a whole ballet.  So it is with The Two Pigeons. [...]

Russian Ballet Icons Gala London Coliseum Sunday 4th March 2012 What a night. The thing about this Gala series is that you don’t get standard gala fare – Don Quixote, Swan Lake etc,. Galas can present the kind of difficulties that you don’t find in the standard repertory and arise out of a lack of rehearsal [...]

Ballet News Reviews| Sophie Flack’s Bunheads Ex New York City Ballet dancer Sophie Flack’s debut novel, Bunheads, draws heavily on her own experiences of life within a ballet company at the Corps de Ballet level. Flack danced with New York City Ballet for nine years in the Corps. Bunhead, a pejorative term used to describe a [...]

Let’s Dance for Sport Relief I’m not sure what to say about the first show ! Former Strictly Come Dancing contestant Darren Gough performs West Side Story’s “Mambo” Tony Blackburn & David Hamilton perform Salt & Pepa’s “Push It” Ulrika and Angelos perform to “Roxanne”, Moulin Rouge Terry Alderton performs Tina Turner’s “Proud Mary”   Enjoy the [...]

Ballet News Reviews | A Dancer in Wartime | Gillian Lynne I received this book to review, before Christmas last year.  What with one thing and another : a ferocious workload before the holidays and then Christmas itself, I never even had the chance to pick it up. Until yesterday.  I can only say what [...]