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The Royal Ballet | Tamara Rojo’s final curtain call Last night was Royal Ballet Principal dancer Tamara Rojo’s final curtain call at The Royal Opera House. Rojo danced Marguerite and Armand alongside Sergei Polunin. Tamara Rojo was a Principal dancer with The Royal Ballet for 12 years and left The Royal Ballet last year to become Artistic [...]

Alfa Banking Group in new partnership with English National Ballet Alfa Banking Group, the largest private commercial and investment banking group in Russia and the CIS, has entered a strategic partnership with leading classical dance company, English National Ballet. The partnership will see Alfa sponsor English National Ballet’s A Tribute to Rudolf Nureyev season, marking [...]

London Coliseum to host tribute to Vaslav Nijinsky Russian Ballet Icons Gala and Dinner 2013   Grand annual gala to celebrate the life and work of the legendary dancer   The Russian Ballet Icons Gala 2013, a grand gala evening dedicated to Vaslav Nijinsky will be held on the 10th March 2013 on the stage [...]

South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2013 nominees announced TX: 14 March, Sky Arts 1 HD, 9.30pm The nominees are announced today for the South Bank Sky Arts Awards, the only awards ceremony to celebrate the UK’s towering achievements across all genres of the arts over the past year. The 2012 Olympics not only brought a [...]

Prix de Lausanne Finalists 2013 You can watch the live stream of the Prix de Lausanne finals from 3pm CET today. The finalists for the 2013 Prix de Lausanne competition are : Alysha Martignago (Australia) Miko Fogarty (Switzerland) Kaho Yanagisawa (Japan) Leticia Dominques (Brazil) Adhonay Silva (Brazil) Simon Acri (Japan) Cesar Corrales (Canada) Matias Oberlin [...]

ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET UNVEILS NEW REBRAND AND COLLABORATION WITH VIVIENNE WESTWOOD   English National Ballet is pleased to reveal details of its new rebrand, which includes an exciting collaboration with designer Vivienne Westwood, in a creative brand campaign for 2013. Confident, creative and contemporary, the new English National Ballet identity has been designed to reflect [...]

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 to Salford, Plymouth, Sunderland and London Coliseum follows Birmingham dates Tickets for Birmingham Hippodrome or 0844 338 5000 Birmingham Hippodrome performance dates: Friday [...]

Ballet News Reviews | English National Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty Sleeping Beauty English National Ballet London Coliseum Wednesday, January 9th 2013 English National Ballet dance Kenneth MacMillan’s production of The Sleeping Beauty (after Marius Petipa), and MacMillan regarded it as the most important classical ballet. This company, especially Tamara Rojo, dance it with the required gravitas. Dressed in Nicholas [...]

Madeleine Onne, Artistic Director of The Hong Kong Ballet, attends Rural Retreat in the UK <Hong Kong – 9 January 2012> At the beginning of January 2013, The Hong Kong Ballet’s Madeleine Onne was one of 28 Artistic Directors from the world’s foremost dance companies who attended the 10th Rural Retreat for dance leaders. The event, hosted [...]

Ballet News Christmas Cupcakes & Conversation 2012 What does a ballet dancer do ? What happens when the curtain goes down ? The grit and the glamour : your backstage pass into ballet. It doesn’t matter whether you are new to ballet, a ballet teacher, dancer, student or someone who just loves ballet, there is always something [...]

Ballet and Fine Art Photography Yesterday I reviewed English National Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker at the London Coliseum, and in addition to the performance, four company dancers have mounted an exhibition of their photography at the Orchestra Stalls Level. It’s well worth a look if you have a ticket for the ballet. If not, take [...]

English National Ballet announces Vadim Muntagirov in new star ranking Lead Principal  English National Ballet has awarded Vadim Muntagirov with a new Lead Principal title. This dancer accolade has been awarded to Vadim in recognition of his exceptional dance ability. Vadim Muntagirov said: “I am very happy to be promoted and thank you to Tamara [...]

Ballet News Reviews | English National Ballet’s The Nutcracker The Nutcracker English National Ballet London Coliseum Wednesday 12th December 2012 Party guests and puppets, magic, snow and glitter.  All the elements are there for the taking in The Nutcracker. Wayne Eagling’s production for English National Ballet brings a nephew from Military school (Vadim Muntagirov), a [...]

All Aboard! Peter Schaufuss’s Midnight Express Rolls into the London Coliseum 9th-14th April   Olivier and Evening Standard award winning dancer, director and choreographer Peter Schaufuss today announces the production’s UK debut.   The dance world’s most original choreographer partners with its most outspoken young star in an adaptation of Billy Hayes’s smash hit book.   Midnight [...]

English National Ballet’s Tamara Rojo on BBC Breakfast This morning English National Ballet’s Artistic Director and Principal dancer Tamara Rojo joined the BBC Breakfast presenters on the sofa to chat about how she combines the dual role. Rojo joked with the presenters about how much kissing there is in classical ballet, as clips of her dancing Princess [...]

Cupcakes and Conversation with Yosvani Ramos, Principal, The Australian Ballet What motivates you at 8am on a Monday morning ? I make myself a double espresso coffee every morning as soon as I wake up. Couldn’t function without it! Why ballet ? There’s nothing else I’d rather do. Who would you most like to dance [...]

The Nutcracker Ballet | Cue Glitter Everyone needs a pair of glittery shoes. They can lift your mood and have you skipping over the cobbles in a trice. I’ve found a wonderful pair that both you and your kids can wear… What’s more, these ballet shoe creations by French Sole are for a good cause [...]

English National Ballet’s The Nutcracker  English National Ballet performs Wayne Eagling’s The Nutcracker for the first time outside London at The Mayflower, Southampton. The Mayflower, Southampton 22-25 November 2012 London Coliseum 12 December – 5 January 2013, 02380 711811 Following last year’s sell-out Christmas Season in London which saw audiences of over 70,000 people, English [...]

English National Ballet School presents its first US Summer Course in partnership with Ballet Theatre of Toledo   English National Ballet School will present its first international summer course at The Ballet Theatre of Toledo studio in Holland, Ohio. The world-renowned ballet school, based in London, England, will be sending teachers from the school to [...]

English National Ballet to star in Channel 4′s Stand Up To Cancer It’s here – tonight, stars from television, music and film are coming together this week for “Stand Up To Cancer” – a unique new fundraising campaign on Channel 4. Joining forces with Cancer Research UK, Friday’s live fundraising event hosted by Davina McCall, Alan [...]