The Royal Ballet School displayed its students’ choreographic talent with a packed programme at the Next Generation Festival The art of choreography is important to The Royal Ballet School. When it was founded by Dame Ninette de Valois in 1926,…
Dancer Jonathan Goddard talks to Ballet Position about his two roles in the new ballet, A Single Man A Single Man is a study in grief. Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 novel traces a day in the life of George, a middle-aged…
Paris Opera Junior Ballet joined the Next Generation Festival at the Linbury Theatre with a challenging quadruple bill What a difference 90 minutes makes. For Paris Opera Junior Ballet it was the difference between a hesitant, seemingly uncomfortable group…
Ballet Central brought flair and originality to Next Generation Festival with a bill of gems old and new Ballet Central is the touring company of the London-based Central School of Ballet. Unlike the junior companies we’ve seen in this year’s…
The Youth Company of Finnish National Ballet joined the RBO Next Generation Festival with a difficult triple bill The Youth Company of Finnish National Ballet is a multinational troupe of 14 young dancers; and like every other junior company, its…
Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell brings the denizens of 1930s Soho to Sadler’s Wells in an evocative work There is a world of difference between 21st century Soho, being developed to within an inch of its life as a “clean…
Inside Giovanni’s Room is Phoenix Dance Theatre’s streamlined and hard-hitting dance adaptation of James Baldwin’s seminal gay novel The African American writer James Baldwin (1924-1987) is best known as a civil rights activist, whose prolific output includes such uncompromising essays…
ABT Studio Company opened the Next Generation Festival at the Linbury with a remarkable display of young talent The Royal Ballet and Opera’s annual Next Generation Festival presents a great opportunity to sample the talent of young dancers from both…
Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía thrilled Sadler’s Wells with Pineda, telling the story of a community’s struggle against despotism Any doubts that flamenco could go beyond mere spectacle and sustain a compelling narrative were dispelled long ago when the great dancer…
Ballet Nights welcomed the new season with a mixed programme of short dance pieces entitled ‘Spring Into Summer’ The Ballet Nights format – a collection of short pieces old and new compèred by founder Jamiel Devernay-Laurence – has acquired a…