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Royal Ballet principal dancer Laura Morera talks proud endings and new beginnings as she prepares to forsake the stage after a long and remarkable career
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Pre-graduation students from the prestigious Elmhurst Ballet School mark their school's centenary with Legacy, a mixed programme showing in the Lilian Baylis Studio
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The Royal Ballet’s new production of Cinderella, one of the Ashton jewels in its repertoire, is sumptuous, enchanting and thoroughly entertaining
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Tickets for The Royal Ballet's Spring period are now on sale. Whether it's Ashton's Cinderella or a new Wayne McGregor, fascinating works are on offer
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English National Ballet’s Swan Lake, now at the Coliseum, is a meticulous, often magical, production of this timeless classic
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The Royal Opera House adds three key works from The Royal Ballet repertoire to its Stream option
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English National Ballet School students show their mettle in a varied and demanding summer performance
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The Royal Ballet’s last triple bill of the season is a deeply satisfying demonstration of the genius of its founder choreographer, Frederick Ashton
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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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Symphonic Variations, one of Frederick Ashton's most emblematic works, is the next streamed ballet in the ROH's programme of Friday Premieres
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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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Ashton's The Dream, the choreographer's masterful condensation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, is the next stream in the Royal Opera House's Friday Premieres programme
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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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Ashton's sunny and delightful La Fille Mal Gardée is the next offering from The Royal Ballet in the Royal Opera House's #OurHouseToYourHouse series
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The Royal Ballet streams a recording of the Ashton signature ballet, Enigma Variations, as part of the ROH Friday premieres series
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The Royal Ballet welcomed its first paying audience to the ROH with a mixed bill that offered a glimmer of light on the eve of renewed darkness
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Opera
The Royal Opera House’s second Live From Covent Garden event was an emotion-laden performance, bringing together a Mahler masterpiece and a short but dazzling ballet
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The Royal Ballet streams choreographer Frederick Ashton’s sunniest ballet, La Fille Mal Gardée, as part of the Royal Opera House’s #OurHouseToYourHouse programe
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Isadora Duncan, known as 'the mother of modern dance', is celebrated in a new triple bill at the Barbican: Viviana Durante Company’s Isadora Now
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Alina Cojocaru’s personal project, Alina at Sadler’s Wells, is an original blend of dance and film, conceived as a series of snapshots of her illustrious career
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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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The Royal Ballet honours its heritage with a varied triple bill that illustrates the range of its repertoire and gives both corps and soloists ample opportunities to shine
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The Royal Ballet joins the commemorations of Merce Cunningham’s centenary with the fascinating Cross Currents triple bill at the Linbury Theatre
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Works by The Royal Ballet’s founder choreographer Frederick Ashton and its youngest, Liam Scarlett – The Two Pigeons/Asphodel Meadows – make for a thrilling programme at the Royal Opera House
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Royal Ballet School students join The Royal Ballet for a programme including the premiere of a new work from Liam Scarlett, and a reprise of Ashton's The Two Pigeons
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Frederick Ashton’s charming comic masterpiece, an ode to the English countryside, heralds the changing seasons on the Royal Ballet stage.
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The Royal Ballet’s second bite at an all-Ashton programme pairs his delightful Two Pigeons with the virtuoso showpiece that’s Rhapsody.
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A Royal Ballet double bill of sharply contrasting pieces illustrates the genius of the great British choreographer, Frederick Ashton.