Black Sabbath – The Ballet: right balance between ballet and rock

Birmingham Royal Ballet in Black Sabbath – The Ballet

Yaoqian Shang and Javier Rojas in Black Sabbath - The Ballet

Marc Hayward and Birmingham Royal Ballet in Black Sabbath – The Ballet

Lachlan Monaghan in Black Sabbath – The Ballet

Céline Gittens and Haoliang Feng in Black Sabbath – The Ballet

Birmingham Royal Ballet in Black Sabbath – The Ballet

Von Graham Watts, 23 Oktober 2025

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“had a boisterous and uplifting ensemble finish with dancers racing through complex choreography”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, am 22 Oktober 2025

Black Sabbath – The Ballet (Pontus Lidberg, Raúl Reinoso, Cassi Abranches)

Birmingham Royal Ballet

Christopher Austin, Musikalische Leitung

Alexandre Arrechea, Bühnenbild, Kostüme

Yaoqian Shang, Tanz

Javier Rojas, Tanz

Lucy Waine, Tanz

Lachlan Monaghan, Tanz

Momoko Hirata, Tanz

Tzu-Chao Chou, Tanz

Céline Gittens, Tanz

Haoliang Feng, Tanz

Acosta Danza: dazzling dancing

Deborah Weiss, 15th February

Acosta Danza, always compelling, deliver a triple bill in the Linbury Theatre that shows off their plentiful attributes.

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Black Sabbath – The Ballet: hard rock with a soft centre

Vikki Jane Vile, 19th June

Birmingham Royal Ballet and Black Sabbath are two of Birmingham’s greatest cultural exports and now they are on a European tour together before heading to the US next year.

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A surreal memoir: Pontus Lidberg's On the Nature of Rabbits

Carla Escoda, 6th March

Inspired by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the AIDS crisis, Pontus Lidberg's On the Nature of Rabbits comes to New York's Joyce Theater.

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Birmingham Royal Ballet: Black Sabbath – The Ballet A hit or a miss?

Graham Watts, 27th September

A remarkable merging of two of Birmingham's greatest cultural institutions.

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100% Cuban as Acosta Danza returns to the UK

Graham Watts, 9th February

After a two-year interregnum, Acosta Danza are back at Sadler's Wells with an updated programme of five short works.

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Acosta Danza thrills Madrid in “Evolution”

Cristina de Lucas, 22nd October

The spirit of Cuba visits Madrid as Carlos Acosta's dance troupe performs a mixed at the Teatro Real, including Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's Mermaid.

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Graham Watts

Graham Watts is a freelance dance writer and critic writing regularly for Dancing Times, Dance Europe, Danza Europa, and many more publications. He regularly writes features for Sadler’s Wells, London Coliseum and La Scala. Chairman of the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle in the United Kingdom and of the UK National Dance Awards he has interviewed many of the greatest names in dance including Maya Plisetskaya, Vladimir Vasiliev, Boris Eifman, Alexei Ratmansky, Andris Liepa, Sir Peter Wright, David Bintley and Dame Gillian Lynne. When not involved in dance Graham is a keen fencer, and has captained the British Sabre team.

Birmingham Royal Ballet in Black Sabbath – The Ballet: the right balance between ballet and rock