Tag The Royal Ballet

Zenaida Yanowsky: Beyond the Rainbow

As she eases into her post-ballet life, Zenaida Yanowsky talks to Ballet Position about the Royal Ballet and the future She graced the stage at Covent Garden with poise, versatility and uncommon intelligence, her smallest gesture capable of conveying a…

William Bracewell: First Year Report Card

Approaching the end of his first Royal Ballet season, William Bracewell helps Ballet Position write his First Year Report Card Modesty is a profoundly endearing quality, and Royal Ballet soloist William Bracewell possesses it in spades. A beautiful dancer, technically…

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…