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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

Van Cliburn International Competition - click here to apply

Click here for tickets - final performances of Die Walküre at the Dutch National opera

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

Click here to watch Wozzeck at the Bayerische Staatsoper

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The HagueBest of Balanchine

Zuiderstrandtheater, Sun 17 Nov at 16:00

Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Gershwin

George Balanchine; Dutch National Ballet; Fayçal Karoui; Dutch Ballet Orchestra

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Latvian National Opera, Nov 17, 2020 Mar 07 at 18:00

Karlsons: Karlsson flies...

Aivars Leimanis; Latvian National Ballet; Mārtiņš Ozoliņš; Mārtiņš Vilkārsis; Ilze Vītoliņa

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Grand Théâtre, Sun 17 Nov

Adams, Glass, Pärt

Ioannis Mandafounis; Andonis Foniadakis; Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui; Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève; Daniel Inbal; Orchestre de la Suisse Romande; Alexandra Conunova

Stadsschouwburg, Nov 19, 20 at 20:00

Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Gershwin

George Balanchine; Dutch National Ballet; Fayçal Karoui; Dutch Ballet Orchestra

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Royal Swedish Opera, Tue 19 Nov

Stravinsky

George Balanchine; Michel Fokine; Royal Swedish Ballet; Stefan Solyom; Royal Swedish Orchestra; Royal Swedish Choir; Maria Matyazova

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Milton Keynes Theatre, Nov 20 19:30, Nov 21 14:00, 19:30, Nov 22 19:30, Nov 23 14:00, 19:30

Drigo: Le Corsaire

Anna-Marie Holmes; Marius Petipa; Konstantin Sergeyev; English National Ballet; Gavin Sutherland; Bob Ringwood; English National Ballet Philharmonic

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Latest reviewsSee more...

No Greek tragedy: the Australian Ballet has fun in Sylvia

Chantal Nguyen, 13 Nov

The Australian Ballet is impressive in this light, entertaining story ballet: a winner of an evening.

****1

Philippa Kiraly, 08 Nov

Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Locally Sourced is all about the bounty of the furthest corner of the United States: dance, scenery, costumes and, of course, rain!

*****