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The Royal Ballet opened its 2024/25 season with a reprise of Christopher Wheeldon’s very busy, very colourful and rather long take on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
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English National Ballet’s Cinderella-in-the-round fills the huge arena of the Royal Albert Hall with colour, magic and glorious dancing
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The Royal Ballet’s last programme of the season features works by Wayne McGregor, Christopher Wheeldon and Kenneth MacMillan in a triple bill of contrasting aesthetics and emotions
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Christopher Wheeldon’s Like Water for Chocolate, adapted from Laura Esquivel’s best-selling Mexican family saga for The Royal Ballet, will be shown in cinemas nationwide
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The Royal Ballet marked the 60th anniversary of its Friends membership scheme with A Diamond Celebration, a mixed programme with many highs and no real lows
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The famous fictional Alice reaches adolescence and starts a new quest in Jasmin Vardimon's new work, ALiCE, coming to Sadler's Wells.
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London hosts dance from four continents
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In the run-up to the premiere of The Royal Ballet’s season blockbuster, Christopher Wheeldon’s Like Water for Chocolate, the ballet’s composer, Joby Talbot, talks to Culture Whisper
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There's light and shade, and old and new in the packed 2022/23 Royal Ballet season, which has just been announced
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The American choreographer Kyle Abraham’s new work for The Royal Ballet, The Weathering, had its world premiere as part of a triple bill of contemporary work
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Three major works from The Royal Ballet's repertoire, including The Sleeping Beauty, will be available to downstream for free in the new year
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Ballet, contemporary and dance-theatre offer a cornucopia of exciting work in 2022
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The Royal Ballet’s last programme of the season, 'Beauty Bill', showcasing the excellence of its soloists and talented lower ranks, is livestreamed on 9 July
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The Royal Ballet returned to the stage at Covent Garden with 21st Century Choreographers, a mixed bill of contrasting works that probe light and shadow, harmony and conflict
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With Royal Opera House preparing to re-open its doors to live audiences, The Royal Ballet has announced an exciting programme of works for the spring season
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Director of the Royal Ballet Kevin O’Hare tells Culture Whisper he’s excited to announce details of the 2021/22 programme, his first full season in a while
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Good news at last: the Royal Opera House will open its doors on 17 May for a new season of live ballet and opera
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The Royal Ballet's gorgeous production of The Sleeping Beauty is to be streamed as part of the ROH's programme of Friday Premieres
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The Royal Ballet Live new programme, Within the Golden Hour, shows a company in glorious form determined to overcome the constraints of Covid
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English National Ballet streams Cinderella Games, a ground-breaking short film inspired by Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella
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Two short duets drawn from The Royal Ballet's extensive repertoire made up dance’s fleeting participation in the third Live From Covent Garden programme
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English National Ballet's Wednesday Watch Parties come to an end with two charming works, Bournonville's La Sylphide and Wheeldon's Cinderella-in-the-round
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The final two programmes of New York City Ballet's superlative 2020 Digital Spring Season have been announced, taking us to the end of May
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Hailed as the Royal Ballet’s first classic for the 21st century, Christopher Wheeldon’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale is the next big event in the ROH online programme
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As BalletBoyz enter their 20th year, directors Michael Nunn and William Trevitt talk to Culture Whisper and assure us that the best is yet to come
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The Royal Ballet’s Spring Triple Bill brings together works by associate artists Wayne McGregor and Christopher Wheeldon, and a powerful vintage piece by George Balanchine
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The Royal Ballet serves up a sumptuous feast of pure dancing with its revival of The Sleeping Beauty, now in repertoire at the Royal Opera House
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English National Ballet’s Cinderella-in-the-round adapts the much loved rags to riches fairy tale to the vast space of the Royal Albert Hall with mixed results
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San Francisco Ballet Programme D, the final triple bill of its Sadler’s Wells residency, brought ample rewards in works that ran the full gamut from gentle to uncompromising virtuosity
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Small, but perfectly formed, the all-male dance troupe BalletBoyz make their West End debut with their hit showThem/Us
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Surely one of the most anticipated visitors of 2019, the vibrant San Francisco Ballet returns to Sadler’s Wells with four mouth-watering programmes
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The Royal Ballet’s Within the Golden Hour Triple Bill offers a mix of pure delight, a heart-rending comment on our world and a big disappointment