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The Royal Ballet celebrates choreographer Kenneth MacMillan with a triple bill that illustrates the stunning breath of his creative genius
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One of the most powerful works in The Royal Ballet repertoire, MacMillan's Manon, returns to Covent Garden on its 50th anniversary for a three-week run
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Following its ROH premiere Yorke Dance Project's brand new film of Sea Of Troubles, choreographer Kenneth MacMillan's expressionist take on Hamlet, has a further screening at the Soho Hotel
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Tickets for The Royal Ballet's winter period are now on general sale
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The Australian Ballet ended its first visit to the ROH in over three decades with an enjoyable gala marking the company’s 60th anniversary
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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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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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Summer 2023 welcomes the return to London of the Australian Ballet, says goodbye to a much-loved Royal Ballet ballerina and celebrates a very special birthday
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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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Dance at its most varied this month
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As he prepares for the most demanding role of his career so far, Royal Ballet principal Vadim Muntagirov talks exclusively to Culture Whisper about mad bad Prince Rudolf
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The Royal Ballet opened its new season with a star-studded near-perfect performance of Kenneth MacMillan’s emotionally devastating Mayerling
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Marianela Nuñez and Federico Bonelli dazzled as the star-cross’d lovers in The Royal Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet's return to Covent Garden
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As the Royal Ballet brings back Romeo and Juliet with a roster of exciting new casts, Culture Whisper talks to two of the company’s brand-new Romeos
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As she prepares to dance the emblematic Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, newly minted Royal Ballet principal, Fumi Kaneko, talks to Culture Whisper about her life and favourite roles
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Yorke Dance Project blends old and new in Past Present, a fascinating programme that spans 100 years of dance
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Booking opens 16 Nov for two three-act ballets, a new family opera, plus Mozart, Handel and Puccini
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The Royal Ballet has opened its first full season in almost two years with MacMillan’s rousing and heart-rending Romeo and Juliet
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Tickets are now on sale to the general public for the Royal Opera House's first full season of ballet and opera since the start of the pandemic
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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 dances Kenneth MacMillan's joyous Concerto, set to music by Shostakovich, in the next stream of the ROH Friday Premieres programme
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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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The Royal Ballet brings a measure of jollity to the ROH #OurHouseToYourHouse streaming platform with Kenneth MacMillan's ragtime work Elite Syncopations
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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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English National Ballet’s Wednesday Watch Parties programme continues with Kenneth MacMillan’s Song of the Earth, set to Mahler’s haunting song cycle
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Possibly the most exciting dance film this year,
Romeo and Juliet: Beyond Words, a new blood-and-guts film version of MacMillan’s masterpiece ballet, is available on iPlayer
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Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s full-evening ballet Mayerling, introduced by Darcey Bussell and Ore Oduba, is now available on BBC iPlayer
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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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Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon, an engrossing tale of love, greed and tragedy, is as fresh and cogent as ever, and a powerful opener to The Royal Ballet’s new season
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Yorke Dance Project TWENTY at the ROH Clore Studio is an anniversary programme that features MacMIllan’s Playground and a new work by the 94-year-old Robert Cohan
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PLEASE NOTE: THIS SHOW HAS BEEN CANCELLED Brecht/Weill’s morality play-cum-cabaret Seven Deadly Sins, as interpreted by the choreographer Kenneth MacMillan at Wilton's Music Hall
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The Royal Ballet opened this season’s lengthy run of Kenneth MacMillan’s masterful Romeo and Juliet by showcasing the first of a wide range of casts