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April 2024

  • the dancers of Shechter II in From England With Love.

    Hofesh Shechter: From England With Love; International Draft Work – review

    Shechter’s young dancers thrill in his hellish vision of England. Elsewhere, emerging choreographers from Brno to Birmingham showcase short works

March 2024

  • Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Yu Kurihara as Princess Aurora, Lachlan Monaghan as Prince Florimund and company in The Sleeping Beauty.(Opening 08-02-2024)
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    Birmingham Royal Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty; Dimitris Papaioannou: Ink – review

    Carlos Acosta’s BRB revels in an expansive revival of Peter Wright’s 80s classic, while the Greek choreographer’s sensational-looking Ink tantalises and terrifies

February 2024

  • (L-R) Nick Rhodes, Actress, Joe Lycett, Carlos Acosta, Marnz Malone, Napalm Death and Roger Taylor

    Lycett, Acosta and Duran Duran condemn Birmingham’s 100% arts budget cut

    Napalm Death, visual artist Pogus Caesar and Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight also among city’s cultural figures warning over ‘horrifying’ move

December 2023

  • Dive straight in … Mike Birbiglia in The Old Man and the Pool

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: The Old Man and the Pool, Bedbound and more

    Watch Mike Birbiglia’s hit comedy about mortality, Colm and Brenda Meaney in Enda Walsh’s two-hander or choose from a flock of Swan Lakes

October 2023

  • Birmingham Royal Ballet dancers in t-shirts and leggings leap in front of an overturned silver car with a silver demon figure balanced on it in Black Sabbath the ballet

    Birmingham Royal Ballet: Black Sabbath – The Ballet; English National Ballet: Our Voices – review

    The fathers of heavy metal have gained at least one new fan thanks to an inspired new Carlos Acosta commission. And the music’s the star in the English National Ballet ambitious new mixed bill

September 2023

  • Black Sabbath – The Ballet at Birmingham Hippodrome.

    Black Sabbath: The Ballet review – riveting riffs, endless kisses and flying limbs

  • Black Sabbath The Ballet Sofia Liñares

    Paranoid pirouettes – inside Black Sabbath: The Ballet, already a headbanging hit

July 2023

  • Carlos Acosta.

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Carlos Acosta: ‘At 50, I have to dance in a way that I can still walk off, and not call an ambulance’

    The Cuban star on returning to the Royal Opera House stage, commissioning a heavy metal ballet and diversity in the arts

April 2023

  • One to watch … Eric Pinto Cata in La Sylphide.

    BRB2 review – great start for Carlos Acosta’s young squad

    Birmingham company’s offshoot ranges from classical showpieces to modern shorts, allowing its dancers to tackle roles usually kept for principals

February 2023

  • ‘It doesn’t come any more unpredictable than this’ … Black Sabbath (from left) Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Bill Ward and Ozzy Osbourne.

    Riffs and tutus: Black Sabbath ballet to be staged in Birmingham

    Rock band to lend eight songs to the ‘world’s first heavy metal dance experience’ performed by Carlos Acosta’s Birmingham Royal Ballet in September

November 2022

  • A scene from Forgotten Land at Sadler’s Wells, London.

    Birmingham Royal Ballet: Into the Music review – an allegro trio

    From dancers partnering with projections and CCTV-style surveillance to an engrossing piece inspired by Edvard Munch, Carlos Acosta’s company is continuing to carve out a niche

June 2022

  • ‘Socially progressive’ … Interlinked by Juliano Nunes.

    Birmingham Royal Ballet: On Your Marks! review – Carlos Acosta sketches a bright future

    The director manages to stretch ballet’s mould while retaining mass-market appeal with an exhilarating summer triple bill

March 2022

  • Multicoloured  … Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Don Quixote.

    Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Don Quixote review – delusions and grandeur

    Elaborate sets and bejewelled dancers abound as Carlos Acosta brings Don Quixote and Sancho Panza’s chivalrous adventure to the stage

June 2021

  • Miguel Altunaga’s City of a Thousand Trades.

    Birmingham Royal Ballet: Curated by Carlos review – a kick and a promise from Acosta

    The artistic director’s first commissions include an ode to the city’s industrial heritage and a swelling take on the climate crisis

May 2021

  • From left: Natalie Simpson (The Death of a Black Man); Hamlet star Ian McKellen (as King Lear); and Amy Trigg (Reasons You Should(n’t) Love Me). Background: 10 Soldiers by Rosie Kay whose new show is Absolute Solo II is on tour.

    Reopening culture
    From McKellen’s Hamlet to a comic Hullabaloo: what to see as theatres and comedy clubs reopen

    As stage shows return, we pick the best post-lockdown offerings – featuring Egyptian gods, rebelling vicars, dancing youths ... and Ian McKellen playing the Dane at 82

March 2021

  • Antoinette Brooks-Daw in What Used To, No Longer Is

    Lockdown culture
    The best new dance films to make your heart leap

  • The camera tailed them around the building ... Juan Gil and Simone Damberg Würtz in Rambert’s Draw From Within.

    Lockdown culture
    Masked moves and ballet in the bath: a year of digital dance

February 2021

  • Liverpool Philharmonic Hall exterior

    London venue plans ignored rest of UK

  • Carlos Acosta

    Carlos Acosta: ‘There’s a danger we’ll lose a whole generation of young dancers’

October 2020

  • Lazuli Sky

    Birmingham Royal Ballet: Lazuli Sky review – bold opener from Carlos Acosta

    Will Tuckett’s intricate new work takes its inspiration from nature and was the shimmering centrepiece of an ambitious and enjoyable programme at the reopened London dance venue
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