It is good to see Birmingham Royal Ballet in such fine fettle. This triple bill is well conceived and deftly performed. Not always flawless in its execution, but a five star programme nonetheless.
Every year, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School and the American Ballet Theatre Studio Company train dancers who go on to careers with dance companies all over the world.
English National Ballet marks the centenary of the beginning of the First World War with Lest We Forget, with new choreographies by Liam Scarlett, Russell Maliphant and Akram Khan.
Spring has sprung in London, and there was a definite taste of nature and things new abounding at the Coliseum in the first of two programmes by English National Ballet. In Beyond Ballets Russes 1 there is a ‘newly hatched’ bird, two very different ‘faunes’ and a freshly outfitted pagan ritual to the god of spring.
