Now spread your wings! Flock of 100 dancers star in English National Ballet’s Swan Lake – in pictures
Anin-the-round production at the Royal Albert Hall in London features more than 100 performers – including 60 dancing swans. Tristram Kenton went into the rehearsals
March 2024
Carmen; California Connections review – sharp moves
Carmen review – stripped-back ballet focuses on the femicide
January 2024
Tamara Rojo: ‘Ballet is competing with Netflix – that’s what audiences expect’
The former artistic director of English National Ballet has swapped London for San Francisco, where she’s bringing AI and clubbing into the theatre – while passing on the legacy of British dance
Giselle; Les Noces: The Departure review – the shock of the old
English National Ballet dance Mary Skeaping’s 70s reworking of the classic ballet with loving care, while Stravinsky’s revolutionary Les Noces holds its own in an ambitious reworking
Giselle review – English National Ballet keep Romantic magic alive
Version created by Mary Skeaping in 1971 retains its seductive power, ably driven by principals Katja Khaniukova and Aitor Arrieta
December 2023
The Nutcracker review – English National Ballet and the Royal Ballet’s annual festive face-off
The two companies variously capture the Christmas classic’s glittering pleasures – and its narrative strangeness
October 2023
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
‘Why don’t we know more of her? It’s upsetting’: dance genius Bronislava Nijinska
Created 100 years ago, Nijinska’s ballet Les Noces is a feminist masterpiece. Andrea Miller, who has choreographed a new version using Stravinsky’s music and art by Phyllida Barlow, hails a trailblazer
June 2023
English National Ballet: Cinderella review – at once grand, tender and intimate
Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon’s intelligence and invention combine to make an effortlessly entrancing piece in which to lose yourself
English National Ballet: Cinderella review – perfectly lovely romance
Erina Takahashi’s finely tuned grace is framed by visual and design flair in Christopher Wheeldon’s conventional show in-the-round
Best culture of 2023 so far
The best films of 2023 so far
Cate Blanchett’s unravelling conductor, Spielberg’s semi-memoir and the stop-motion tale of a shell wearing shoes all feature in the pick of the year released in the UK to date
February 2023
Creature review – Asif Kapadia and Akram Khan join up for intriguing dance film
‘Nature will punish you’: Asif Kapadia and Akram Khan on their climate crisis dance film
December 2022
2022 in Culture
The best dance of 2022
Beryl Grey: a bright star of British ballet with spark, poise and passion
Beryl Grey – a life in pictures
Dame Beryl Grey, British ballerina with ‘all the gifts’, dies aged 95
November 2022
Tamara Rojo wades into bitter row over London arts funding
