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ReadingStill Pointless – BalletBoyz at 25

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Various: Mixed Programme
Christopher Wheeldon; Iván Pérez; Maxine Doyle; Liam Scarlett; Xie Xin; Javier de Frutos; Russell Maliphant; BalletBoyz

LondonThe Royal Ballet School – mixed programme

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Various, Tchaikovsky, Bliss, Halvorsen
David Bintley; Cathy Marston; Jessica Lang; Andrew McNicol; Kristen McNally; Sir Peter Wright; Ninette de Valois; Christopher Wheeldon; The Royal Ballet School

CheltenhamStill Pointless – BalletBoyz at 25

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Various: Mixed Programme
Christopher Wheeldon; Iván Pérez; Maxine Doyle; Liam Scarlett; Xie Xin; Javier de Frutos; Russell Maliphant; BalletBoyz

ChicagoThe Nutcracker – Joffrey Ballet

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Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
Marius Petipa; Lev Ivanov; Christopher Wheeldon; Joffrey Ballet; Julian Crouch; Natasha Katz

AmsterdamCinderella – Dutch National Ballet

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Prokofiev: Cinderella
Christopher Wheeldon; Dutch National Ballet; Koen Kessels; Julian Crouch

ChicagoThe Sleeping Beauty – Joffrey Ballet

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Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty
Marius Petipa; Christopher Wheeldon; Joffrey Ballet; Jérôme Kaplan
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BalletBoyz: Still Pointless at 25 and still making it work!

BalletBoyz in Maxine Doyle’s Bradley 4:18 © Amber Hunt
The BalletBoyz present an entertaining programme of old and new works spanning the last 25 years – with stellar performances.
****1
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Contemporary escapism at New York City Ballet

Chun Wai Chan and Ruby Lister in Edwaard Liang’s Distant Cries © Erin Baiano
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.
****1
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Atlanta Ballet shines in a mixed contemporary program

Atlanta Ballet in Claudia Schreier's You Dig © Shoccara Marcus
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

David Gabriel, KJ Takahashi and Daniel Ulbricht in Alexei Ratmansky's The Naked King © Erin Baiano
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.
****1
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The Royal Ballet’s Like Water for Chocolate is sumptuous but complex

Francesca Hayward as Tita and Marcelino Sambé as Pedro in Wheeldon's Like Water for Chocolate © Foteini Christofilopoulou
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.
****1
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Ballet Nights makes an impressive and unforgettable Scottish debut

Sophie Martin and Joan Ivars Ribes in David Dawson's On the Nature of Daylight © Rimbaud Patron
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.
****1
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Oral history project Voices of British Ballet launches new podcast

© Voices of British Ballet
Encompassing over 500 interviews with people involved in the dance world, Voices of British Ballet aims to preserve important oral testimony from people instrumental to the development of ballet in the UK.

All in the balance: Classical Music Statistics 2024

Bachtrack: Classical Music Statistics 2024 [EN]
What changes did the classical music world see in 2024? Are existing trends continuing, or slowing? With more than 30,000 listings across 48 countries, Bachtrack offers a valuable snapshot into the classical music world.

状況は不透明:Bachtrackによる2024年のクラシック音楽の統計

Bachtrack Classical Music Statistics 2024 [JP]
2024年のクラシック音楽界にはどのような変化があっただろうか? これまでの傾向は維持されただろうか、それとも下火になっただろうか? 48ヶ国、30,000を超える掲載件数にもとづき、Bachtrackはクラシック音楽界の有益な見取り図をお届けする。