Dance
Richard Alston Dance Company, Sadler's WellsWednesday, 15 May 201329 February-1 March: Richard Alston Dance Company performs a mi xed programme with a new work danced to Benjamin Britten’s masterpiece for boys’ choir, A Ceremony of Carols, which is sung and played live by Cante rbury Cathedral’s choir, Alston's... Read more... |
Romeo and Juliet, Royal BalletWednesday, 15 May 201319 October -7 December: Kenneth MacMillan's great romantic ball et has become the world's favourite version of the Shakespearean tragedy. Casts: Lauren Cuthbertson/ Federico Bonelli: October 19, 23 Alina Cojoc aru/ Steven McRae: October 22,... Read more... |
Scottish Ballet, Highland Fling, GlasgowWednesday, 15 May 201327 Apr-4 May, Glasgow - then Scottish tour of Matthew Bourne’sHIGHLAND FLING. Bourne's amusing, ingenious update of the first Romanticballet, La Sylphide, relocates it to Glasgow, where sex, drugs and roc k 'n' roll get a newly wed young Scottish... Read more... |
Midnight Express, Peter Schaufuss Ballet, London ColiseumWednesday, 15 May 20139-14 April (7 performances): Following on from his Tchaikovsky trilogy last year, ballet director and choreographer Peter Schaufuss prese nts the UK premiere of his ballet Midnight Express, an original productionbased on Billy Hayes’s bestselling... Read more... |
Royal Ballet, The Prince of the Pagodas, ROHWednesday, 15 May 20132-29 June. The Prince of the Pagodas (MacMillan/Britten). Eightperformances for this Nicholas Georgiadis-designed fairytale to Britten's fascinating orientalist score, about a Princess’s love for a salamander, originally created for the very young... Read more... |
Mark Morris Dance Company, Programme A, Sadler's WellsWednesday, 15 May 201327 Nov-1 Dec: The master of American contemporary dance, Mark Morris, brings seven works never before seen in the UK, divided into two programmes. 27, 29 Nov, 1 Dec: Programme A includes The Muir, an evol ution of the graceful yet powerful Cease... Read more... |
Peter Schaufuss's Sleeping Beauty, London ColiseumWednesday, 15 May 201323-28 July: Peter Schaufuss Ballet from Denmark shows Schaufuss 's Tchaikovsky Trilogy - his wholesale reinterpretations of Swan Lake, Sle eping Beauty and The Nutcracker in his own style. All three are played end to end on the Saturday. Swan... Read more... |
Rambert Dance, Cunningham's Rainforest, Barbican Art GalleryWednesday, 15 May 2013RainForest by Rambert Dance Company 5 June 2013 / 19:00 Art Gallery Following their recent sell-out performance, Rambert, the nati onal company for contemporary dance, return for another performance of Mer ce Cunningham’s RainForest. This... Read more... |
BRB Hobson's Choice, Birmingham HippodromeWednesday, 15 May 201322-25 Feb, Hobson's Choice, Birmingham Hippodrome. Bintley's excellent 1989 ballet version of the tale of true love between a weedy boot maker and the spinster daughter of a drunken businessman. Music by Paul Rea de, who also composed Far From the... Read more... |
Royal Ballet cinema showing: Ashton programmeWednesday, 15 May 2013Cinema relay of the farewell performance together of ballerina Tamara Rojo and young prodigal Sergei Polunin in Marguerite and Armand film ed last March, also containing the cool moonbeam minimalism of Monotones,and retiring ballerina Leanne... Read more... |
Royal Ballet, Ratmansky & Wheeldon premieresWednesday, 15 May 201322 Feb-14 Mar, Apollo/ PREMIERE Ratmansky's 24 Preludes/ PREMI ERE Wheeldon's Aeternum (5 pfs). Headline news that the two leading balletchoreographers of the world today each unveil a creation for the Royal Bal let. This will be Ratmansky's first... Read more... |
Mikhailovsky Ballet, Giselle, London ColiseumWednesday, 15 May 201326 March-7 April: a 2-week season by St Petersburg's "other" ba llet company, the Mikhailovsky Ballet, making its 3rd visit to London. nBallets by Nacho Duato, in addition to classics Giselle, Don Quixote, a nd Laurencia, will feature Mikhailovsky... Read more... |
