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Birmingham Royal Ballet online – Home from Home

08 Apr 20 – 08 Jul 20, Available 15:00 onwards

Birmingham Royal Ballet, under its new artistic director Carlos Acosta, joins the online dance community with the initial offer of the timeless classic, The Swan

By Teresa Guerreiro on 3/4/2020

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Céline Gittens as Odette, Tyrone Singleton as Siegfried in BRB'S Swan Lake. Photo: Bill Cooper
Céline Gittens as Odette, Tyrone Singleton as Siegfried in BRB'S Swan Lake. Photo: Bill Cooper
Birmingham Royal Ballet online – Home from Home Birmingham Royal Ballet online – Home from Home Teresa Guerreiro
The Cuban ballet superstar Carlos Acosta had planned to start his stewardship of Birmingham Royal Ballet, Britain’s second classical ballet company, with a bang: plans had been announced for an ambitious festival of all things dance, comprising performances, workshops and panel discussions to take place in June.


All that will now have to wait until well after the end of the lockdown, as the dancers cannot be expected to go back to performance immediately after a period, which so fundamentally disrupts their normal training.


Meanwhile, though, Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) is launching Home from Home, its own online offer in collaboration with the BBC Arts virtual programme, Culture in Quarantine.


The first streamed performance in BRB’s Home from Home programme will be a short but deeply engaging classic: The Swan.

Choreographed by Mikhail Fokine at the turn of the 20th century for the legendary ballerina Anna Pavlova, this short four-minute piece has become known as The Dying Swan. Set to the 'Swan' section of Camille Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals, it follows the final moments in the life of a swan.


Throughout the years, most of the great ballerinas have left their own imprint in this ineffable solo work; BRB’s The Swan will be performed at home by company principal dancer Céline Gittens, accompanied by principal pianist Jonathan Higgins and cellist Antonio Novais, from BRB’s own orchestra.


Céline Gittens is a strong, but delicate and very expressive dancer, so her Swan should be a delight. It’s her debut in the role, so there’s no film of it yet, but just to whet your appetite, here she is as another famous Swan: the Swan Princess Odette in Swan Lake.



BRB’S The Swan will be slightly different from the traditional piece: although he admits it's one of his favourite works, Carlos Acosta has changed the ending. In Acosta’s own words: ‘This is a dance of promises, it represents the end of something and the beginning of something else, and in these crazy times that we are living we all need a new beginning.’

BRB HOME FROM HOME: THE SWAN
Wednesday 8 April at 3pm via bbc.co.uk/arts and
brb.org.uk

by Teresa Guerreiro

What Birmingham Royal Ballet online – Home from Home
Where Online | MAP
When 08 Apr 20 – 08 Jul 20, Available 15:00 onwards
Price £N/A
Website https://www.brb.org.uk/post/home-from-home



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