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The Royal Ballet celebrates choreographer Kenneth MacMillan with a triple bill that illustrates the stunning breath of his creative genius
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The Royal Ballet kicked off its spring season with an immaculate and emotional performance of Swan Lake
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The Royal Ballet Principal Character Artist, Gary Avis, tells Culture Whisper how he develops the compelling character roles crucial to bringing ballets to life
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The Royal Opera House stage pulsated with fresh ideas and splendid dancing in the four New Works of its Festival of New Choreography
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The Royal Opera House kicked off its Festival of New Choreography with Canadian Robert Binet’s Dark with Excessive Bright, an immersive, yet strangely unaffecting work
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The prolific American choreographer Jessica Lang talks to Culture Whisper about her first commission for The Royal Ballet, Twinkle, a work that’s star-studded in more ways than one
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One of the most powerful works in The Royal Ballet repertoire, MacMillan's Manon, returns to Covent Garden on its 50th anniversary for a three-week run
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The Winter's Tale, Christopher Wheeldon's masterful adaptation of the eponymous Shakespeare play, makes a welcome return to Covent Garden in The Royal Ballet's Spring period
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The Royal Ballet’s near-perfect production of The Nutcracker brings magic to the Christmas season at the Royal Opera house
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Wayne McGregor’s The Dante Project, his sprawling, ambitious take on Dante’s The Divine Comedy, has its first revival by The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House
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The Royal Ballet's principal dancer Reece Clarke talks to Culture Whisper about his coming debut in the 'fun' role of Basilio in Carlos Acosta's Don Quixote.
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Anemoi and The Cellist, respectively homages to classical ballet and to the late great cellist Jacqueline du Pré, make up The Royal Ballet’s first mixed bill of the current season
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The Royal Ballet principal Mayara Magri tells Culture Whisper how she’s preparing for her debut in the role of Jacqueline du Pré in the dramatic ballet The Cellist
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Tickets for The Royal Ballet's winter period are now on general sale
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September brings dance for all tastes
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The ideal opening to the new season, The Royal Ballet’s Don Quixote brings sunshine, fun and simply glorious dancing to Covent Garden
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The Royal Ballet celebrates the pioneering choreographer Bronislava Nijinska on the centenary of her landmark work, Les Noces
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Tickets are now on general sale for The Royal Ballet's Autumn season
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Proving he’s still got it at 50 years old, the Cuban superstar Carlos Acosta returns to the ROH with a programme that celebrates a long, illustrious career in dance
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The Royal Ballet’s last programme of the season features works by Wayne McGregor, Christopher Wheeldon and Kenneth MacMillan in a triple bill of contrasting aesthetics and emotions
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The Royal Ballet's superlative Sleeping Beauty comes to a cinema near you
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May has an international flavour
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Royal Ballet principal dancer Laura Morera talks proud endings and new beginnings as she prepares to forsake the stage after a long and remarkable career
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Summer 2023 welcomes the return to London of the Australian Ballet, says goodbye to a much-loved Royal Ballet ballerina and celebrates a very special birthday
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The Royal Ballet’s new production of Cinderella, one of the Ashton jewels in its repertoire, is sumptuous, enchanting and thoroughly entertaining
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Dance with a spring in its step
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Berlin, New York and Johannesburg dance in London
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Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works, the choreographer’s homage to Virginia Woolf, returns to the stage at Covent Garden
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Tickets for The Royal Ballet's Spring period are now on sale. Whether it's Ashton's Cinderella or a new Wayne McGregor, fascinating works are on offer
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Banish the winter blues with thrilling dance
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The Royal Opera House adds three key works from The Royal Ballet repertoire to its Stream option
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Christopher Wheeldon’s Like Water for Chocolate, adapted from Laura Esquivel’s best-selling Mexican family saga for The Royal Ballet, will be shown in cinemas nationwide