English National Ballet’s new Nutcracker is fresh, surprising and full of magic, company artistic director Aaron S Watkin tells me Image credit: Junor Souza as Drosselmeyer and English National Ballet in Aaron S. Watkin and Arielle Smith’s Nutcracker © Photography by ASH…
Carlos Acosta tells me why and how he’s transporting the Christmas ballet to Cuba as Nutcracker in Havana Carlos Acosta came late to Christmas. The Cuba where the boy who was to become an international ballet superstar grew up in…
American choreographer Pam Tanowitz talks about the creation of her new work for The Royal Ballet, Or Forevermore (image credit: Pam Tanowitz in rehearsal for Or Forevermore with William Bracewell ©2024 ROH. Photo: Andrei Uspenski) The prolific New York-based choreographer…
The doyenne of English National Ballet, Lead Principal Dancer Erina Takahashi has graced the stage for 28 years (image credit: Erina Takahashi as Medora in ENB’s Le Corsaire © Laurent Liotardo) Erina Takahashi calls English National Ballet home. Born in…
The young British choreographer Andrew McNicol talks to Ballet Position about his prolific career as a dance maker (Image Credit: Tulsa Ballet in Andrew McNicol’s Cinderella. Photo: Kate Luber Feb 2023) Andrew McNicol has been making something from nothing ever…
Ballet Position visits Annarella Sanchez’s outstanding dance conservatoire and talks to the Cuban woman who has reinvigorated ballet in Portugal There’s a contagious buzz of excitement in the corridors and studios of Conservatório Annarella, or to give it its full…
The young Portuguese dance prodigies António Casalinho and Margarita Fernandes discuss their first year as demi-soloists with Bayerisches Staatsballett, Munich António Casalinho and Margarita Fernandes are back in Leiria, the mid-sized town just north of the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, where…
Newly-minted Royal Ballet principal dancer Fumi Kaneko talks to Ballet Position in the aftermath of her stunning debut as Juliet Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet is a narrative masterpiece, distilling in its structure and choreography all the passion and ultimate…
The Royal Ballet dancer and choreographer Valentino Zucchetti talks to Ballet Position about his present career and his future plans Valentino Zucchetti is well launched into his second career, even while his first is still in full bloom. At just…
Fresh from winning the Gold Medal at Prix de Lausanne 2021, the Portuguese dancer António Casalinho talks to Ballet Position There are times when superlatives fall short of the reality they’re trying to describe. That is certainly the case with…