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Famous love story Queensland’s first Super Star The Newman Government is delivering on a key Arts for All Queenslanders election commitment, with the announcement of the first Super Star project. Arts Minister Ian Walker said Queensland would be home to an exclusive season of the ballet Romeo and Juliet, featuring internationally acclaimed dancers.   “This [...]

BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET’S 2013 SUMMER SEASON at BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME   Sir Peter Wright’s production of Coppelia David Bintley and Galina Sasova’s Giselle   Venue and booking information: Birmingham Hippodrome: Tickets: 0844 338 5000   Birmingham Royal Ballet is delighted to return to the Birmingham Hippodrome stage from 4 – 22 June.  The Company will perform [...]

Genée International Ballet Competition 2013 – Tickets on sale and semi-finals judges announced With only five months to go until competition begins, tickets have gone on general release for the semi-finals and Final of the prestigious Genée International Ballet Competition, taking place from 20-29 September 2013 in Glasgow. Matthew Cunningham, RAD Director of Marketing and [...]

Elmhurst School for Dance (in association with Birmingham Royal Ballet) supports people in mental health settings with their Elmhurst Reach4Dance initiative   Elmhurst Reach4Dance is an innovative series of performance-based workshops that provide entertainment and creative communication through movement to people in mental health settings. Since its launch, the project has successfully been taken to several [...]

BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET ANNOUNCES 2013 – 2014 SEASON AT BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME   UK premiere of David Bintley’s The Prince of  the Pagodas with scenery and costumes by War Horse designer Rae Smith Peter Wright’s The Nutcracker returns for  Christmas A mixed bill to celebrate the work of  choreographer Frederick Ashton includes a new revival of Les [...]

Ballet News Reviews | Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Aladdin Birmingham Royal Ballet Aladdin London Coliseum Wednesday, 20th March 2013 Bedazzled, with bells on. That’s how you’ll feel if you watch Birmingham Royal Ballet’s spectacular Aladdin, choreographed by David Bintley, with its sumptuous costumes by Sue Blane (yes, some of them had snakes wound around their torsos), a crescent moon, [...]

BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET wins a BBC Performing Arts Fund Music Fellowship award   Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) is delighted to be included amongst 19 organisations to have won a BBC Performing Arts Fund (PAF) Music Fellowship award. The award will allow BRB and its full-time orchestra the Royal Ballet Sinfonia to work with Conducting Fellow [...]

Young British Dancer of the Year 2013 – results announced The final of the 2013 Young British Dancer of the Year competition was held on Saturday 9 March at the Linbury Studio Theatre, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The winners were: First:  Chisato Katsura (The Royal Ballet School) Second: Isabelle Brouwers (English National Ballet School) Third:  [...]

The Royal Ballet announces 2013/14 season Today saw the launch of Artistic Director Kevin O’Hare’s second season at The Royal Ballet, and he was characteristically understated but also quietly confident that as his first season is going very well - the company is selling almost all of the tickets it offers - and is excited about the new season. Has [...]

BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET’S MUCH-LOVED MID-SCALE ‘SPLIT-TOUR’ CELEBRATES ITS 10th SEASON in 2013 Celebrating the 10th season of its much-loved mid-scale theatre ‘split-tour’ initiative, Birmingham Royal Ballet continues with its policy of presenting its diverse repertory to the widest possible audience from 10th  – 22nd May 2013. The Company will once again split into two, half [...]

FREEFALL DANCE COMPANY CELEBRATES ITS FIRST TEN YEARS   Freefall Dance Company, a partnership between Birmingham Royal Ballet and Fox Hollies Performing Arts College, enters its second decade high on the success of the first In 2012 the company was an integral part of Mencap’s hugely successful Cultural Olympiad project WE DANCE, creating a brand [...]

Ballet News Reviews | Tatiana Leskova : A ballerina at large Tatiana Leskova is one of the last surviving pupils of dancers from the golden age of the Imperial Russian Ballet; the daughter of exiled Russians whose mother, Helena, conceived her in Venice, Italy, and born in Paris in 1922. This biography, first published in Brazil and [...]

BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET CELEBRATES THE SUCCESS OF ITS DANCE TRACK PROGRAMME   Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Dance Track programme seeks out and nurtures dance talent from primary schools across the City of Birmingham   Annually Dance Track reaches out to 35 schools across North and SouthBirmingham and delivers workshops to 2500 Year 1 pupils Former Dance [...]

BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET’S ALADDIN RECEIVES ITS UK PREMIERE AT BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME IN FEBRUARY 2013 12 performances only of David Bintley’s magical version of the classic tale in Birmingham An Aladdin spring tour 2013 to Salford, Plymouth, Sunderland and the London Coliseum follows Birmingham dates Birmingham Hippodrome performance dates: Friday 15 – Saturday 23 February 2013 [...]

BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET’S CINDERELLA BY DIRECTOR DAVID BINTLEY RETURNS TO BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME   WITH CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED DESIGNS by JOHN MACFARLANE Birmingham Hippodrome Hurst Street, Southside, Birmingham, West Midlands, B5 4TB Wednesday 21 November – Sunday 9 December 2012 Box Office: 0844 338 5000 Following its world premiere season in Birmingham in 2010 and subsequent Christmas Day BBC [...]

Queensland Ballet announces two new Principals to join the Company in 2013  Queensland Ballet’s Artistic Director Li Cunxin has announced two exciting additions to the Company in 2013. Matthew Lawrence, former Principal at the Birmingham Royal Ballet, will join the Company as Principal Dancer, and Huang Jun Shuang, former Principal at the Houston Ballet, will [...]

Ballet News Reviews | Birmingham Royal Ballet in Opposites Attract Birmingham Royal Ballet’s dancers are on top form over three different styles in one night that make up Opposites Attract – Take Five, Lyric Pieces and Grosse Fuge. David Bintley’s Take Five is jazzy (The Dave Brubeck Quartet) and split into 6 sections – Take [...]

Crumbs on Stage and Jermyn Street Theatre present   GOOD MORNING MIDNIGHT   Spectacular Dance Theatre at Powerful Proximity this November at Jermyn Street Theatre Directed and Choreographed by Drew McOnie Music by TTJ Set Design by Ryan Laight Lighting Design by Phil Hewitt   8th November – 10th November 2012   Theatre falls in [...]

BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET | 2012 AUTUMN SEASON at SADLER’S WELLS   THE COMPANY PERFORM TWO TRIPLE BILLS THE SEASON HIGHLIGHTS THE WORK OF ASHTON, BINTLEY, LANG, LAYTON and VAN MANEN Performances: OPPOSITES ATTRACT (Take Five / Lyric Pieces / Grosse Fuge) Tue 23 Oct at 7.30pm & Wed 24 Oct at 2pm and 7.30pm Autumn [...]

Ballet Gala Celebration | In a class of their own   A Gala Evening Performance CELEBRATION! ‘In a class of their own’ Featuring stars of The Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, Northern Ballet, Strictly Come Dancing, West End Productions and many more well-known artists who have generously agreed to perform. Directed by Wayne Sleep, Royal [...]