Brimming with talent: The Royal Ballet School Summer Performance

Taeryeong Kim as Kitri in Carlos Acosta's Don Quixote

Austen McDonald and George Edwards in Mikaela Polley's Fast Blue

The Royal Ballet School in Kenneth MacMillan's The Four Seasons

Ptolemy Gidney in August Bournonville's Konservatoriet

Emile Gooding in Goyo Montero's Bold

Caspar Lench and Guillem Cabrera Espinach in Christopher Wheeldon's Within the Golden Hour

Von Jonathan Gray, 17 Juli 2023

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“the audience rose to its feet to cheer the Grand Défilé, which brings the entire school on stage”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, am 16 Juli 2023

Mixed Programme

Within the Golden Hour (Christopher Wheeldon)

Don Quixote (Marius Petipa, Carlos Acosta)

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BalletBoyz: Still Pointless at 25 and still making it work!

Maggie Foyer, 13th May

The BalletBoyz present an entertaining programme of old and new works spanning the last 25 years – with stellar performances.

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Contemporary escapism at New York City Ballet

Carla Escoda, 1st May

A longtime NYCB fan favorite, Concerto DSCH by Alexei Ratmansky, meets the New York premiere of Christopher Wheeldon's Continuum. But the evening belonged to corps dancer Ruby Lister in Edwaard Liang’s Distant Cries.

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Atlanta Ballet shines in a mixed contemporary program

Rebecca Ehrhardt, 3rd April

Atlanta Ballet's Golden Hour program featured two world premieres and the Atlanta premiere of Christopher Wheeldon's Within the Golden Hour.

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NYCB: Ratmansky’s The Naked King is not satire, but good fun

Ivy Lin, 7th February

New York City Ballet presents a very entertaining quadruple bill which includes Alexei Ratmansky’s latest work, The Naked King, showing off the company’s comic talents.

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Les « Racines » inégales du Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris à Bastille

Laurine Mortha, 6th October

Entre une pièce des années 1950 de Balanchine et les deux créations récentes des chorégraphes Mthuthuzeli November et Christopher Wheeldon, le programme mixte néo-classique produit un effet mitigé.

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The Royal Ballet’s Like Water for Chocolate is sumptuous but complex

Amanda Jennings, 1st October

The Royal Ballet’s season opener, Christopher Wheeldon’s Like Water for Chocolate, is visually tremendous, very well danced but the many principal and soloist characters are difficult to keep up with.

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Jonathan Gray

Jonathan Gray was born in Wales and studied at The Royal Ballet School, Leicester Polytechnic and Wimbledon School of Art. He was a member of the curatorial department of The Theatre Museum, London, from 1989 until 2005, and was editor of Dancing Times from 2008 until its closure in 2022.