An ideal Easter outing for families, English National Ballet’s My First Ballet: Swan Lake is at the Peacock There were babes in arms and toddlers in strollers. There were little girls in sequinned tulle skirts – pink, naturally. Amazingly well-behaved…
English National Ballet’s The Forsythe Programme brings superb artistry, virtuoso dancing and unalloyed joy to Sadler’s Wells Theatre Who says ballet can’t be fun? Certainly not the exhilarated Sadler’s Wells audience who rose as one to cheer and applaud the…
Transporting performances by English National Ballet bring Mary Skeaping’s Romantic Giselle to vibrant life at the London Coliseum At its best Giselle is one of the most emotionally involving ballets in the repertoire; and the version danced by English National…
English National Ballet’s eye-catching and immensely entertaining new Nutcracker delighted a packed Coliseum on opening night Fresh, lively and very sweet – English National Ballet’s new Nutcracker is definitely a vast and much needed improvement on the company’s previous production.…
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…
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…
Ballet Position meets Ruth Brill as she prepares to swap her pointe shoes for life as a full time choreographer Ruth Brill is a vibrant bundle of energy, which is just as well – when we met, she was simultaneously…
With fierce competition on for places in Dutch National Ballet’s Choreographic Academy, we ask what can the budding choreographers expect? Aspiring young choreographers have a chance to find out whether they have it in them to become professional dance makers,…
With English National Ballet mired in allegations of unacceptable workplace practices, Ballet Position goes behind the scenes to find out more Over the past five years English National Ballet (ENB) has burnished its public image to a peak of gloss…
As the stage lures him back once again, Irek Mukhamedov talks to Ballet Position about “performing, acting, interacting, being alive.” A dancer’s career is cruelly short. Actors can act into their 80s (look at Maggie Smith, Judi Dench), singers sing…