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The Royal Ballet Live new programme, Within the Golden Hour, shows a company in glorious form determined to overcome the constraints of Covid
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English National Ballet streams Cinderella Games, a ground-breaking short film inspired by Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella
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Two short duets drawn from The Royal Ballet's extensive repertoire made up dance’s fleeting participation in the third Live From Covent Garden programme
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English National Ballet's Wednesday Watch Parties come to an end with two charming works, Bournonville's La Sylphide and Wheeldon's Cinderella-in-the-round
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The final two programmes of New York City Ballet's superlative 2020 Digital Spring Season have been announced, taking us to the end of May
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Hailed as the Royal Ballet’s first classic for the 21st century, Christopher Wheeldon’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale is the next big event in the ROH online programme
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As BalletBoyz enter their 20th year, directors Michael Nunn and William Trevitt talk to Culture Whisper and assure us that the best is yet to come
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The Royal Ballet’s Spring Triple Bill brings together works by associate artists Wayne McGregor and Christopher Wheeldon, and a powerful vintage piece by George Balanchine
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The Royal Ballet serves up a sumptuous feast of pure dancing with its revival of The Sleeping Beauty, now in repertoire at the Royal Opera House
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English National Ballet’s Cinderella-in-the-round adapts the much loved rags to riches fairy tale to the vast space of the Royal Albert Hall with mixed results
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San Francisco Ballet Programme D, the final triple bill of its Sadler’s Wells residency, brought ample rewards in works that ran the full gamut from gentle to uncompromising virtuosity
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Small, but perfectly formed, the all-male dance troupe BalletBoyz make their West End debut with their hit showThem/Us
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Surely one of the most anticipated visitors of 2019, the vibrant San Francisco Ballet returns to Sadler’s Wells with four mouth-watering programmes
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The Royal Ballet’s Within the Golden Hour Triple Bill offers a mix of pure delight, a heart-rending comment on our world and a big disappointment
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BalletBoyz talk to Culture Whisper about their new showThem/Us, and the process of creating the very first work choreographed by the dancers themselves
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On the centenary of the birth of Leonard Bernstein, his daughter Nina remembers a musician who ‘lived many lives in one' and left behind a tremendous legacy
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As they prepare to debut in a principal ballet role in The Winter’s Tale, Reece Clarke and Matthew Ball talk to Culture Whisper about the complex figure of Polixenes
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One of Britain's most exciting dance companies, BalletBoyz, returns to Sadler's Wells with its acclaimed Fourteen Days programme
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The Royal Ballet unites all three of its associate choreographers for a triple bill celebrating the centenary year of American composer Leonard Bernstein’s birth
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Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale, hailed as the Royal Ballet’s first classic of the 21st century, returns to the Royal Opera House stage this Winter.
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With the premiere of Fourteen Days just around the corner, Culture Whisper meets the BalletBoyz to find out more about the programme and its intriguing title
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The world premiere of Liam Scarlett’s Symphonic Dances, an abstract work from the Royal Ballet’s rising star choreographer, alongside Forsythe, Wheeldon and Balanchine
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In-demand choreographer Crystal Pite’s first work for the Royal Ballet will debut in Covent Garden as part of an exciting mixed programme celebrating contemporary ballet
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The first ever Royal Ballet mixed programme devoted entirely to the work of choreographer Christopher Wheeldon comes to the Royal Opera House in February.
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BalletBoyz dancer Matthew Sandiford talks healthy competition, ballet for boys and dancing with one of the most successful contemporary companies in the UK.
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Russian ballerina Anna Tsygankova, Cinderella for Christopher Wheeldon and half of one of ballet's power couples, tells us about creating a fairytale.
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The London Coliseum hosts the UK première of Dutch National Ballet’s Cinderella, from the internationally acclaimed choreographer Christopher Wheeldon.
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The Royal Ballet kicks off its autumn season with a mighty treat for adults and children alike: Christopher Wheeldon's zany treatment of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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This November at Sadler's Wells three of the world’s greatest choreographers - Edwaard Liang, Russell Maliphant...