Tag Kenneth MacMillan

The Royal Ballet Schools Matinee, Romeo & Juliet

A young audience relished a performance of Romeo and Juliet, part of The Royal Ballet’s Schools Matinees programme Very few thrills beat watching a live stage performance in a theatre packed with schoolchildren.   Their uncontained excitement and their unfiltered,…

Fumi Kaneko – A Deeply Affecting Juliet

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…

Irek Mukhamedov – A Life Renewed

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…