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Dance
The ideal opening to the new season, The Royal Ballet’s Don Quixote brings sunshine, fun and simply glorious dancing to Covent Garden
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Proving he’s still got it at 50 years old, the Cuban superstar Carlos Acosta returns to the ROH with a programme that celebrates a long, illustrious career in dance
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The Royal Ballet's superlative Sleeping Beauty comes to a cinema near you
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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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The annual Ballet Icons Gala at the London Coliseum was a deeply enjoyable event, with much to admire and no real duds
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The Royal Ballet’s glorious production of the Christmas ballet par excellence, The Nutcracker, is now firmly installed on the main stage at Covent Garden
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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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Dance for Ukraine, an emotional fundraiser for people affected by the war, is now available to watch on Marquee TV
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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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International ballet stars will light up the stage at the London Coliseum for the Ballet Icons Gala 2022, which pays homage to Sergei Diaghilev in his 150th anniversary year
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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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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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The Royal Ballet fired the first shot in the battle of The Nutcrackers with its immaculate, heart-filling production of the classic Christmas ballet
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The prestigious Ballet Icons Gala returned to the Coliseum, offering a mixture of varying delights and stupefying turkey
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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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Dance
The magic of Christmas is alive and well and dazzling audiences at the Royal Opera House in The Royal Ballet’s sparkling production of The Nutcracker
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A dream cast brought Onegin to life in the first night of the Royal Ballet’s revival of John Cranko’s powerful dance drama
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Dance
Culture Whisper sits in on a rehearsal of the Royal Ballet’s Onegin and talks to Principal Dancer Ryoichi Hirano about his debut in the demanding title role
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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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Dance
A crowd-pleaser, if ever there was one, The Royal Ballet’s sunny, funny production of Don Quixote is wowing audiences at the Royal Opera House
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Dance
BBC Four has a very special Christmas Day present for its viewers: a broadcast of the Royal Ballet’s sumptuous new production of Swan Lake with a stellar cast
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Dance
The ROH's LInbury Theatre hosts Primeiro Bailarino (Principal Dancer), an affectionate filmed portrait of Royal Ballet Principal Thiago Soares by his fellow Brazilian director Felipe Braga
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Carlos Acosta: last performance is a feel-good affair as the Cuban takes his final classical bow
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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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Dance
Love and despair know no bounds in the Royal Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet, Kenneth Macmillan’s ageless tragedy.