Mayerling, Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s darkest three-Act ballet, relives the events around the tragedy that shook the Habsburg empire This article was first published on London Unattache Few choreographers have the skill to probe the darkness of the human soul like…
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…
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,…
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…
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…