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Solomon Golding: Talent, Desire and Ambition

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…

The Royal Danish Ballet School

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…

Bournonville: The Danish Way of Dancing

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,…

NDT2: Dancing “Like There’s No Tomorrow”

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…

Joel Morris: Dancer at a Crossroads

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…

Hubert Essakow: From Obscurity to Light

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: For the “Pure Love of Dance”

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…

Crystal Pite – Rigour and Recklessness

Crystal Pite, the internationally acclaimed Canadian choreographer, talks about the processes and emotions that come together in her extraordinary work.   Betroffenheit is Crystal Pite’s current favourite among the 40+ works she’s created over the past 25 years. It is…