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Tried and Tested
Dance
The inaugural programme of the Royal Ballet’s International Draft Works, at the Linbury Theatre, threw up a heady mix of new work from across Europa and America
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The Cuban ballet superstar Carlos Acosta gets the biopic treatment in Yuli, the uneven but often gripping tale of a rebel child forced to accept his destiny
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The Royal Ballet opened this season’s lengthy run of Kenneth MacMillan’s masterful Romeo and Juliet by showcasing the first of a wide range of casts
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The flash of a firebird, a family sent into a spin and a classical ballet explosion; The Royal Ballet presents three ballet classics with a Russian flavour
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The Royal Ballet gives Liam Scarlett’s first full-length work Frankenstein another outing; sadly it's as unsatisfactory as the work’s first run two years ago
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A crowd-pleaser, if ever there was one, The Royal Ballet’s sunny, funny production of Don Quixote is wowing audiences at the Royal Opera House
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The Royal Ballet marks the centenary of Margot Fonteyn’s birth with a special programme that commemorates one of the defining figures of British Ballet
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Opera
Tickets for the ROH hit-packed Spring period are now on sale. Here are some of the highlights
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Works by The Royal Ballet’s founder choreographer Frederick Ashton and its youngest, Liam Scarlett – The Two Pigeons/Asphodel Meadows – make for a thrilling programme at the Royal Opera House
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Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui creates his first work for The Royal Ballet to be shown alongside works by choreographers extraordinaire Crystal Pite and Christopher Wheeldon
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BBC Four has a very special Christmas Day present for its viewers: a broadcast of the Royal Ballet’s sumptuous new production of Swan Lake with a stellar cast
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Royal Ballet Principal Dancer Laura Morera talks to Culture Whisper, as she prepares to debut in the complex Chekhovian role of Masha in Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Winter Dreams
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It’s official! Christmas started on Monday, 3 December, with the first performance of the Royal Ballet’s magical The Nutcracker at Covent Garden relayed to almost 1,000 cinemas in 50 countries.
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Musical works never before set to dance come together with new choreographies in an enticing programme at the ROH’s Linbury Theatre, New Work, New Music
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Enjoy skating moves and fantastical drama from the dancers, and the music of Tchaikovsky, Mozart and Janáček from the singers
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Royal Ballet School students join The Royal Ballet for a programme including the premiere of a new work from Liam Scarlett, and a reprise of Ashton's The Two Pigeons
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Themes
There will be Nutcrackers aplenty, but more than that, Christmas Dance 2018 celebrates winter in all its forms. Here are the key shows for London families
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The Royal Ballet revives two contrasting works from Wayne McGregor and George Balanchine to frame the world premiere of a new ballet by Alastair Marriott
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The Royal Ballet dances a tale of love, murder and vengeful judgement by the gods as the exotic 19th Century Russian ballet La Bayadère returns to London
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Mayerling, Kenneth MacMillan’s potent real-life tale of love, lust and death, returns to Covent Garden as part of the Royal Ballet’s autumn season
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The Royal Ballet has programmed a series of Insight events to complement its brand new production of Swan Lake
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The Royal Ballet’s much anticipated new production of Swan Lake – its first in 30 years – comes to the Royal Opera House soon
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Tickets for the Royal Ballet's 2018/19 Live Cinema Relays go on sale on 4th April. They sell out quickly, so don't delay booking!
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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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The Royal Ballet revives a masterpiece of modern ballet as Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon returns to the Royal Opera House stage
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Go behind the scenes with the Royal Ballet’s Insights programme for an illuminating look at what goes into making memorable performances
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The Royal Ballet’s last mixed bill of the current season consists of three strongly contrasting works with something for everyone
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The enthralling ballerina Zenaida Yanowsky returns to the stage in Elizabeth, choreographer Will Tuckett’s reading of the life of Queen Elizabeth I
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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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The amorous adventures of the gods will be depicted through dance when The Royal Ballet presents Frederick Ashton’s opulently-staged Sylvia
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Kids
Primary schoolchildren throughout Britain are in for a treat, when a special BBC programme inspired by the Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker is streamed live to schools in November
