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Wayne McGregor’s The Dante Project, a new ballet inspired by The Divine Comedy, will be available to stream on the Royal Opera House's digital platform
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Dance beyond the lockdown
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As she prepares to dance the emblematic Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, newly minted Royal Ballet principal, Fumi Kaneko, talks to Culture Whisper about her life and favourite roles
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Nutcracker, Little Prince and Snowman
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World Ballet Day returns to our screens for the eighth year, with the participation of many international companies and a chance for viewers to shine!
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The Royal Ballet has opened its first full season in almost two years with MacMillan’s rousing and heart-rending Romeo and Juliet
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The Barbican presents a Martha Graham Weekender, highlighting the dance pioneer's collaboration with the sculptor Isamu Noguchi
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Tickets are now on sale to the general public for the Royal Opera House's first full season of ballet and opera since the start of the pandemic
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The Royal Ballet’s last programme of the season, 'Beauty Bill', showcasing the excellence of its soloists and talented lower ranks, is livestreamed on 9 July
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The Royal Ballet’s up-and-coming choreographer Valentino Zucchetti talks to Culture Whisper about his brand-new ballet Anemoi, which opens the company’s final programme of the season
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The crème de la crème of British ballet comes together for a special charity gala in solidarity with a sector that was battered by the Covid-19 pandemic
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The Royal Ballet honours two masters of American ballet in its latest mixed bill dedicated to George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins
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The Royal Ballet streams Lyssa, a new short film choreographed by Lynne Page, featuring the company's female dancers and music by Nadine Shah
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The Royal Ballet returned to the stage at Covent Garden with 21st Century Choreographers, a mixed bill of contrasting works that probe light and shadow, harmony and conflict
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With Royal Opera House preparing to re-open its doors to live audiences, The Royal Ballet has announced an exciting programme of works for the spring season
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Symphonic Variations, one of Frederick Ashton's most emblematic works, is the next streamed ballet in the ROH's programme of Friday Premieres
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The Royal Ballet dances Kenneth MacMillan's joyous Concerto, set to music by Shostakovich, in the next stream of the ROH Friday Premieres programme
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Director of the Royal Ballet Kevin O’Hare tells Culture Whisper he’s excited to announce details of the 2021/22 programme, his first full season in a while
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Ashton's The Dream, the choreographer's masterful condensation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, is the next stream in the Royal Opera House's Friday Premieres programme
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Good news at last: the Royal Opera House will open its doors on 17 May for a new season of live ballet and opera
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The Royal Ballet brings a measure of jollity to the ROH #OurHouseToYourHouse streaming platform with Kenneth MacMillan's ragtime work Elite Syncopations
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The Royal Ballet's gorgeous production of The Sleeping Beauty is to be streamed as part of the ROH's programme of Friday Premieres
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Ashton's sunny and delightful La Fille Mal Gardée is the next offering from The Royal Ballet in the Royal Opera House's #OurHouseToYourHouse series
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The Royal Opera House continues its online #OurHouseToYourHouse ballet programme with Nureyev's eye-filling production of Raymonda Act III
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The magic of Christmas is alive and well and dazzling audiences at the Royal Opera House in The Royal Ballet’s sparkling production of The Nutcracker
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As The Nutcracker takes to the stage at Covent Garden, director of The Royal Ballet Kevin O'Hare talks to Culture Whisper about staging a Covid-compliant Christmas ballet
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The Royal Opera House has unveiled a bumper programme of streamed ballet just in time for the festive season
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A couple of Nutcrackers join other seasonal productions in the cornucopia of dance on show in London this Christmas
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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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The Royal Ballet streams a recording of the Ashton signature ballet, Enigma Variations, as part of the ROH Friday premieres series
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The Royal Ballet welcomed its first paying audience to the ROH with a mixed bill that offered a glimmer of light on the eve of renewed darkness
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World Ballet Day returns on Thursday 29 October, uniting companies the world over to celebrate an art form grievously affected by the Covid-19 pandemic