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

By Jonathan Gray, 17 July 2023

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

Reviewed at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 16 July 2023

Mixed Programme

Within the Golden Hour (Christopher Wheeldon)

Don Quixote (Marius Petipa, Carlos Acosta)

The Royal Ballet School

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.

*****

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.

****1

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.

****1

Ballet Nights makes an impressive and unforgettable Scottish debut

Kathy Elgin, 4th July

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

ABT in Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale: CliffsNotes Shakespeare

Ivy Lin, 2nd July

Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale is a sumptuous looking production but on this occasion, it didn’t come to life emotionally.

***11

Wheeldon’s Alice: The Royal Ballet shines in a vehicle of excellence

Amanda Jennings, 13th June

Christopher Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland shows off The Royal Ballet's roster of supreme dance actors in every version of technical wizardry and comic incarnation.

****1

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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.