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<i>Romeo + Juliet</i> another palpable hit for Sir Matthew Bourne © Johan Persson

Romeo + Juliet another palpable hit for Sir Matthew Bourne

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater residency at Sadler's Wells

A hot affair: Staatsballett Berlin in Cranko’s <i>Romeo and Juliet</i> © Yan Revazov

A hot affair: Staatsballett Berlin in Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet

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Interview

A cellist, Inferno, fire and ice: Kevin O’Hare

Interview

A Croatian ballerina defied war

Svetlana Zakharova in Gabrielle Chanel © Jack Devant

Svetlana Zakharova on her love affair with London

Benjamin Freemantle in McIntyre's Your Flesh Shall Be a Great Poem at SFB © Erik Tomasson

SF Ballet's Benjamin Freemantle

Hofesh Shechter on his creative process

Dance on tap

Ballet ABC

Marie Taglioni in La Sylphide, 1832

Louis XIV, represenetd as Louis Appolo © Wikicommons

Classical Ballet, a French Affair?

Serge Lifar, dancer with Les Ballets Russes, and Director of the Paris Opéra Ballet © Wikicommons

A little History of the French Style

A step into the world of Swan Lake

The original cast of The Sleeping Beauty, Mariinsky Theater, 1890, Carlotta Brianza (Aurora) © Wikicommons

SB: Symphonic Storytelling

Students of the Imperial Ballet School (St Petersburg) in Petipa's Fairy Tale , 1891 © Wikicommons

Italian Influence on Russian Ballet

Carlotta Grisi and Marius Petipa, La Valse, Giselle © Wikicommons | Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France

A Story book World of Ballet

Portrait of Sergei Diaghilev by Valentin Serov © Wikimedia Commons

Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: Cultural Avant Garde

English National Ballet © Photography by ASH

Nutcracker: still casting a Christmas spell

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SouthamptonCinderella

Mayflower, Oct 23 19:30, Oct 24 14:00, 19:30, Oct 25 19:30, Oct 26 14:30, 19:30

Prokofiev: Cinderella

Christopher Wheeldon; English National Ballet; Gavin Sutherland; Julian Crouch; English National Ballet Philharmonic

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Dutch National Opera and Ballet, Oct 23, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31 at 19:30

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet

Rudi van Dantzig; Dutch National Ballet; Ermanno Florio; Dutch Ballet Orchestra

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Dutch National Opera and Ballet, Oct 23 13:00, 15:00, Oct 24 13:00, 15:00, Oct 25 13:00, 15:00, Oct 26 13:00, 15:00, Oct 27 14:00, 16:00, Nov 02 11:00, 13:00, 15:00, Nov 03 14:00, 16:00

Broadley: The Little Big Box

Ernst Meisner; Dutch National Ballet's Junior Company

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Lincoln Center: David H Koch Theater, Oct 23 19:30, Oct 25 19:30, Oct 27 14:00

Dvořák, Ellington

Jessica Lang; Gemma Bond; Michelle Dorrance; American Ballet Theatre

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New National Theatre, Tokyo: Opera House, Oct 24 13:00, Oct 26 13:00, 18:30, Oct 27 14:00

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet

Sir Kenneth MacMillan; The National Ballet of Japan; Martin Yates; Paul Andrews; Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

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Lincoln Center: David H Koch Theater, Thu 24 Oct

Stravinsky, Bolcom, Various

George Balanchine; Clark Tippet; Jessica Lang; Twyla Tharp; American Ballet Theatre

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Ratmansky's Seasons the highlight of a mixed ABT program

Herman Cornejo in A Gathering of Ghosts © Rosalie O'Connor

Ivy Lin, 19 Oct

A mixed evening at the Koch Theater, with ABT shining in Ratmansky and a new Twyla Tharp creation, but struggling in Balanchine.

***11

Grace Jabbari in Silent Lines © Martin Collins

Graham Watts, 18 Oct

Silent Lines epitomises Maliphant’s compulsive study of fascia, the layers of integrated tissue attached to, enclosing and separating muscles.

****1

Nariman Bekzhanov, Lina Seveliova and the Imperial Russian Ballet Company © Vladimir Dorofeev

Sarah Navin, 18 Oct

The regal grandeur of Sydney's State Theatre marries the alluring beauty of the Imperial Russian Ballet's swan ensemble, in this strictly traditional and most enchanting production.

****1

Wendy Whelan and Maya Beiser in The Day © Reed Hutchinson and CAP UCLA

Gillian Ebersole, 18 Oct

The Day features music by David Lang and choreography by Lucinda Childs as former ballerina Wendy Whelan and cellist Maya Beiser perform together in this work contemplating memory, mortality, and aging.

***11