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Ballet Nights is more than an evening of party pieces: it showcases emerging talent alongside older favourites and, in the case of this first Scottish outing, has an eye to local tradition.

The combination of spectacular backdrops and evocative film projections are visually stunning and the dancers are superb, but Wayne McGregor's MaddAddam is difficult to follow.

Max Richter's Recomposed: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons is performed by the Norwegian violinist Mari Samuelsen and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. 

Final verdict on Woolf Works? It’s sprawling, uneven, with parts that are thrilling and other parts that are prosaic and shallow.

An adventurous triple bill of vintage works new to Norway. 

Inventiveness, joyful performance and intuitive communication from Thomas Gould and the Britten Sinfonia in recompositions from Richter, Auerbach and Tippett.

Every decade or so, The Royal Ballet creates a new work that will endure in its signature collection, and there's little doubt that Woolf Works deserves its place among that elite.   

An event that will be long-remembered for the importance of the occasion, if not for its content. 

The Aurora Orchestra and Collon engage audiences new and old with infectiously joyful Mozart and intensely virtuosic Adès, with Pekka Kuusisto.

Alessandra Ferri, the former La Scala Prima Ballerina Assoluta, makes her triumphant return to Milan as the moving incarnation of Virginia Woolf in Wayne McGregor's most mature, complete and striking piece to date.

Audio and film permeate Marriott's new work for The Royal Ballet, recounting the tale of Ted Feltham, a British Soldier uuring World War 1, and his fiancée, Florence Billington. 

Everything Pite choreographs turns to gold and when Young is also involved it’s an especially rich vein.

Dresden Semberoper Ballett came across as a troupe of seasoned and versatile performers who move with fluidity in diverse repertory.

With Contrasts, the Mariinsky dancers are put under a multifaceted microscope. 

A fascinating collaborative, creative effort combines to make this the most important new work to enter the repertoire of The Royal Ballet, thus far, in the twenty-first century

This was a terrific performance by a world class troupe of dancers.

The house was packed to the rafters at Montreal's Theatre Maisonneuve last Tuesday; it seemed the entire city turned out to witness Nederlands Dans Theater make its return after a twenty year absence.

NDT2 brings a mixed programme to Sadler's Wells, as part of its UK tour. With works by Sol Leon and Paul Lightfoot, Edward Clug, Hans Van Manen and Alexander Ekman 

Max Richter's rethinking of Vivaldi impresses at the Paris Philharmonie. 

A diverse program which shows the breadth and depth of the Royal Ballet. 

Tavener's The Hidden Treasure is the highlight of the Duke Quartet's recital at Kings Place

Praise goes to Wayne McGregor, Alessandra Ferri and the Royal Ballet for their bold, modern and innovative treatment of Virginia Woolf's legacy.

Nederlands Dans Theater celebrates 25 years of Lightfoot and Leon, with the strongly executed emotional double bill Sehnsucht / Schmetterling.

BalletBoyz - theTalent emit versatility, stunning technique and velvety smooth movement material that stuns and enthrals - a beautiful triple bill of work.

Netherlands Dance Theatre present Kylián's Heart's Labyrinth, Goecke's Hello Earth and new work by Lightfoot and Leon, Stop-Motion, in Programme III at Stadsschouwburg, Utrecht.

Let's be brutally honest, concertgoers: Vivaldi's Four Seasons has been played to death - recorded by everybody who's anybody. It's been a wonderful old warhorse over the years, but it has been flogged once too often. Can it really be possible, then, to bring this animal back from the dead and rekindle our enthusiasm?

In a double bill at Sadler’s Wells, BalletBoyz demonstrate a group amity and common identity unlike any other company of their size.

The curtain went up at Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall last night on Nederlands Dans Theater in Sehnsucht and Schmetterling (“Homesickness” and “Butterfly,” in German) and the pleasure of seeing these magnificent dancers was heavily diluted by the machine-gun-like choreography and leaden attempts at humor. Beethoven’s ecstatic Symphony no.

As one of the headline acts for the newly established Bristol Proms, award-winning British violinist Daniel Hope played alongside the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra for the first orchestral performance on the Bristol Old Vic Theatre stage for over a century.

When it started in 2001, the BalletBoyz seemed to be a flimsy flirt of one or two seasons at most. More than ten years later, after several award-winning productions, spellbinding collaborations and film creations, they are a company of ten with their own rehearsal studio, guest choreographers, and a loyal audience.

At once, Max Richter’s avant-garde remix of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is both strange and familiar. Poised atop the stage at (le) Poisson Rouge sat the LPR ensemble – complete with a harpsichord! – ready to begin their performance. But something curious happened: the players remained silent as an electronic hum radiated out of a laptop on stage.

With the triple bill Viscera / Infra / Fool’s Paradise, The Royal Ballet have confirmed the status of their new holy trinity of choreographers: Wayne McGregor, Christopher Wheeldon and Liam Scarlett.

En trente-cinq minutes suspendues, le ballet nous propose un extraordinaire récit des origines et ouvre magistralement la nouvelle saison du Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris.

Una actuación interesante por infrecuente, con algunos momentos memorables, que atrajo a un público inusualmente joven, moderno y cosmopolita.

La violoniste et l'orchestre ont enthousiasmé le public de La Filature par leur interprétation d'une grande finesse des Quatre Saisons recomposées de Max Richter.

Mit drei Uraufführungen zeigt dieser Abend, dass die Herausforderung zu Reaktionen zwingt und Neues hervorbringen kann.

Mit „Midnight Sun” präsentiert die Baltic Sea Philharmonic ein spezielles Konzertkonzept, bei dem die Werke nicht einfach hintereinander gespielt wurden.

L’Opéra de Paris rassemble quatre chorégraphes contemporains dans une soirée qui met un coup de projecteur sur la création contemporaine. Déjà plébiscité en 2016, le remarquable ballet de Crystal Pite est le point d’orgue de cette soirée.

Le Nederlands Dans Theater est de retour au Palais de Chaillot avec une programmation associant une création récente de la chorégraphe canadienne Crystal Pite et deux pièces de Sol León et Paul Lightfoot, chorégraphes en résidence et co-directeurs artistiques du NDT depuis 2011.

La selección exquisita de su repertorio junto la extraordinaria calidad de sus bailarines hacen del binomio una de las agrupaciones danzarias mejores del mundo. Sin embargo, hasta el Sol tiene manchas