ENB Principal Laurretta Summerscales talks to Ballet Position about her favourite roles and the current phase in the company’s history. Juliet is one of Lauretta Summerscales’ favourite roles. Juliet, that is, in the Rudolf Nureyev production of the tragic love…
Is London’s Royal Opera House the elitist preserve of a metropolitan middle class? Categorically not, says its boss Alex Beard. ‘Elitist’ – a damning label, often uttered with a dismissive sneer. But what do people mean when they call something or…
Fresh from winning Britain’s National Dance Award for Best Modern Choreography, Kim Brandstrup discusses his love of dance and film. Kim Brandstrup picks his words carefully. As carefully, in fact, as he lights upon the telling details that will bring…
Dominique Mercy, veteran of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, talks to BalletPosition about her legacy and plans for the company’s future. Dominique Mercy is an extremely engaging man, whose easy smile always starts in his pale blue eyes. A dancer all…
The Royal Ballet’s Solomon Golding discusses his abiding passion for ballet and his determination to inspire audiences with his art. Solomon Golding is an extremely personable young man: polite, intelligent and bursting with self-belief. Extremely articulate, words pour out of…
PLEASE NOTE: THE LONDON CLINIC OFFERING THIS SERVICE HAS BEEN SUMMARILY CLOSED DOWN BY THE NHS AS OF JUNE 2019 Lucinda Brereton is a successful commercial dancer. She made a smooth transition from the National Youth Ballet to musical theatre…
A portrait of the Royal Danish Ballet School, where forming complete human beings is as important as forming elite dancers. It’s 8.30 am. In a long ballet studio high up in Copenhagen’s labyrinthine Royal Theatre, seven boys warm up ready…
How the visionary Bournonvile came to develop a dancing style that would forever become the unique hallmark of Danish ballet. Say “ballet” in Denmark, and before long you’ll hear one name: Bournonville. The Danes pronounce it: Bonn-ville. That’s, of course,…
A portrait of the Nederlands Dans Theater’s junior company, NDT2, an exhilarating combination of youth, technique and hunger for dancing. The dancers of NDT2 hit the stage like a controlled explosion of pure dance. Their breath-taking technique belies their extreme…
As his dancing career evolves into teaching, Joel Morris tells us his heart is split between stage and ballet studio. Just after 6 o’clock on a Thursday evening beginners class at Pineapple is in full flow. Sixteen adults stand at…
As he prepares for his first major international commission in Düsseldorf, Hubert Essakow talks about life as a freelance choreographer. Call it serendipity. Had the great Lynn Seymour not been friends with Hubert Essakow’s favourite actress, Sara Kestelman, he may…
Susan Robinson, ballet teacher extraordinaire, on how she transmits her “pure passion for the art” to successive generations of dancers. On the last night of English National Ballet’s London Christmas season, Laurretta Summerscales received a rapturous ovation for her sparkling…