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Heart-warming Fille mal gardée from Birmingham Royal Ballet

Hérold: La Fille mal gardée **** Birmingham Royal Ballet, Sadler’s Wells, 1st November 2018 A red umbrella, a butter churn and dancing chickens can only mean one thing: ballet’s favourite romcom is back. Sir Frederick Ashton’s version of La Fille mal … Continue reading

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Starry, starry night: Birmingham Royal Ballet’s celestial Cinderella provides magic

Prokofiev: Cinderella ***** Birmingham Royal Ballet, Mayflower, Southampton, 25th January 2017 Compared with his raw, heartrending music for Romeo and Juliet, Prokofiev composed a sassier, slinkier score for Cinderella and this has given choreographers licence to lend the ballet a … Continue reading

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Elfin magic, Russian restraint: a charming Ashton double bill at BRB

The Dream; A Month in the Country **** Birmingham Royal Ballet, Birmingham Hippodrome, 20th February 2016 “Sing and dance it trippingly,” Oberon commands his fairies at the end of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Sir Frederick Ashton’s choreography for The … Continue reading

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A touch of Disney: Wheeldon’s glossy Cinderella sweeps into London

Prokofiev: Cinderella *** Dutch National Ballet, Coliseum, 8th July 2015 No fairy godmother. No clock. No pumpkin. Christopher Wheeldon can be forgiven for eschewing these traditional fairy tale elements in his version of Cinderella for a moment of sheer magic at … Continue reading

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Wheel of Fortune: Carmina burana a safe bet for Birmingham Royal Ballet

Tchaikovsky: Serenade/ Orff: Carmina burana  *** Birmingham Royal Ballet, Coliseum, 20th March 2015 Celebrating 20 years as Director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet, David Bintley brings his company to London for three nights (and an afternoon!) of seedy sex and drunken debauchery … Continue reading

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