Avant-garde flamenco jostles with the purest classical ballet, fairies and vampires in a month where dance diversity rules
The month opens with World Ballet Day, which takes balletomanes on six continents behind the scenes at their favourite dance companies.
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On this, the thirtieth anniversary of choreographer Kenneth MacMillan's untimely death, his masterpiece Mayerling continues in repertoire at the Royal Ballet until the end of the month with a variety of interesting casts.
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There's one final chance to catch up with Canadian choreographer du jour, Crystal Pite's latest work for The Royal Ballet. Light of Passage extends the scope her award-winning piece on the refugee crisis, Flight Pattern.
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Marking yet another anniversary, this time 60 years of the ROH Friends membership scheme, The Royal Ballet presents a very short run of a mixed bill, that combines classical ballet with cutting edge contemporary dance
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London fans of Peaky Blinders have one last chance to catch up with Rambert's pulsating dance interpretation of the TV hit show at the Troubadour Wembley Park before it moves on to an extensive international tour.
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Leeds-based Northern Ballet has its first London outing under its new director, former Royal Ballet principal Federico Bonelli. The company comes to the ROH Linbury theatre with three short contemporary pieces, under the umbrella title Made in Leeds.
Dancer and impresario Ivan Putrov marks the tenth anniversary of his homage to the male dancer over the years, Men in Motion, with a new iteration of this one-off gala. The starry cast includes Vadim Muntagirov and Matthew Ball, Matteo Micini from Stuttgart Ballet and Dmitry Zagrebin from Royal Swedish Ballet.
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Cuban superstar Carlos Acosta brings his Birmingham Royal Ballet to London with Into The Music, a triple bill of contemporary work, that includes pieces by international dance luminaries Jiří Kylián and Uwe Scholz, as well as up-and-coming British choreographer Morgann Runacre-Temple.
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English National Ballet's autumn triple bill brings together two tried and tested crowd pleasers alongside a brand new reading of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring by the Swedish veteran choreographer Mts Ek.
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Sadler's Wells presents Brazilian dancemaker Bruno Beltrão and his company Grupo de Rua with their latest work New Creation. Combining contemporary dance with the unequalled vitality of Brazil's street dance, this is a particularly topical piece in the context of the recent fraught presidential elections in their country.
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The maverick Spanish flamenco dancer Israel Galván turns his iconoclastic attention to Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, with results we can't really predict…
November ends looking ahead to the festive season, with the first night of Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty, which will be the Sadler's Wells Christmas offering this year and provides an escape from more sugary seasonal fare.
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