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Dance Reflections, Tanowitz and Balanchine

Dances new and old by Pam Tanowitz and Balanchine elevated week 3 of Dance Reflections to new heights A premiere from the New York choreographer Pam Tanowitz and a cross-section of work by George Balanchine, the third giant of 20th…

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,…

Romeo and Juliet, The Royal Ballet Review 5*

Vadim Muntagirov and Fumi Kaneko raise MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet to a new level on its 60th anniversary…  In a lifetime of watching dance, many performances have, with time, slipped entirely out of my mind.  Others remain as cherished, if…