As Gary Avis retires from The Royal Ballet, I republish my 2024 interview with this charismatic dance actor Gary Avis has a rare talent to turn fictional characters into living, breathing, fully rounded people; whether on stage, as Principal Character…
The Royal Ballet opens the festive season with its transporting, magical production of the Christmas ballet, The Nutcracker This article was first published on London Unattached Nothing says Christmas like The Nutcracker; and nothing says truly magical, transporting, transcendental Christmas like The…
The Royal Ballet’s Perspectives, its first triple bill of the season, features works by Balanchine, Marston and Peck This article was first published on London Unattached Something old, something new, something borrowed… The Royal Ballet’s first triple bill of the…
Black female choreographers showed tremendous talent and promise in a programme of Draft Works marking Black History Month This article was first published on London Unattached Five young Black women choreographers came together for two evenings of Draft Works marking…
The Royal Ballet’s Like Water for Chocolate blends reality and magic in Christopher Wheeldon’s spectacular three Act ballet This article was first published on London Unattached The Royal Ballet opened its 2025/26 season with the first revival of Christopher Wheeldon’s…
Royal Ballet Principal Marcelino Sambé on the female sensibility leading his curation of Black History Month Draft Works This article was first published on London Unattached Black History Month originated in the USA as part of the civil rights movement…
Vadim Muntagirov and Fumi Kaneko raise Onegin to new heights in The Royal Ballet’s revival of Cranko’s masterpiece John Cranko’s 1965 ballet Onegin, a prodigy of concise story-telling, never fails to land an emotional punch. For dancers it offers a…
Ballet to Broadway is a Royal Ballet mixed bill highlighting the talent and versatility of choreographer Christopher Wheeldon Ballet to Broadway fairly describes Christopher Wheeldon’s artistic path from dancer with Royal Ballet and then New York City Ballet, through dance maker…
Carlos Acosta’s The Maiden of Venice re-imagines a “problematic” classic, the ballet La Bayadère, for his BRB company The Maiden of Venice, as Carlos Acosta has named his re-imagined La Bayadère, will, he hopes, sidestep the problems raised by the…
National and international choreographic talent featured in the 2025 edition of International Draft Works at the RBO Linbury It’s not meant as a collection of definitive finished works. Rather, International Draft Works, a Royal Ballet initiative that brings together budding…