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Royal Ballet

June 2024

  • ‘Yasmine has an athlete’s mindset – very sharp, very powerful’ … Yasmine Naghdi and Britt Tajet-Foxell.

    ‘If you slip, it hurts your soul’: the ballerina who asked a sports psychologist for coaching

    Huge audiences and even larger livestreams are putting a whole new type of pressure on dancers. Yasmine Naghdi, principal of the Royal Ballet, tells us how Britt Tajet-Foxell fixed more than just her fouettés
  • Reece Clarke and Marianela Nuñez in Les Rendezvous

    Ashton Celebrated review – Royal Ballet turns traditional into timeless

    Frederick Ashton’s musicality, footwork and storytelling are showcased in a programme of gracefully danced favourites
  • Sparkling repartee … Harrison Lee, Isabella Gasparini and Leo Dixon in Les Rendezvous.

    The Royal Ballet: Ashton Celebrated review – a world where everything is just delightful

    Launching a four-year celebration of Frederick Ashton’s genteel ‘English style’, this triple bill is full of refined beauty and pleasure – though with athleticism visible below the surface

May 2024

  • Ed Larkin and Jonny Amies in The Little Big Things.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: The Little Big Things, David Tennant in Good and more

    Musicals, Shakespeare and multiple versions of Nick Payne’s multiverse drama Constellations are among May’s digital theatre highlights

April 2024

  • OA Tales of Hoffman<br>Tales of Hoffman; Opera Australia; Dress Rehearsal; July 2023

    Royal Ballet and Opera announces ambitious new season – and name change

    2024-25 programme includes premieres of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s opera Festen and Wayne McGregor’s Margaret Atwood ballet MaddAddam
  • 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
  • Marianela Nunez and Vadim Muntagirov in Swan Lake by the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House

    Swan Lake; Danses Concertantes/Different Drummer/Requiem – review

    The Royal Ballet’s long-running and rather cumbersome Swan Lake is elevated by the dancers’ artistry, while a fine Kenneth MacMillan triple bill deserves more performances

February 2024

  • Francesca Hayward and Marcelino Sambé in Manon.

    Manon review – Kenneth MacMillan’s 50-year-old masterpiece still bewitches

    The Royal Ballet revisits the choreographer’s timeless rags-to-riches work, putting assorted casts through its finely tuned emotional wringer
  • Literally stretching his cast … Never Known by Joshua Junker at the Festival of New Choreography by the Royal Ballet.

    Festival of New Choreography review – the Royal Ballet spreads its wings

    Impressive new work from Joshua Junker and Mthuthuzeli November pushes dancers well beyond the classical repertoire
  • Joseph Sissens rehearsing Dark With Excessive Bright at Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House

    Dark With Excessive Bright: the Royal Ballet’s giant leap into immersive dance – in pictures

    The Royal Opera House’s Linbury theatre will be transformed for Canadian choreographer Robert Binet’s new show, where the audience can roam freely. Take a first look

January 2024

  • Two of the Royal Ballet’s strongest actors … Gary Avis and Francesca Hayward in Manon at the Royal Opera House.

    Manon review – the Royal Ballet brings beauty to sordid snake pits of Paris

  • Vincent Van Gogh's Self-Portrait, 1889; Adrian Lester in Renegade Nell; Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie; Taylor Swift on stage; Matt Smith in An Enemy of the People; the Royal Ballet's Manon; New York City Ballet. Centre: Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal in All of Us Strangers

    2024 culture preview
    From Bong Joon-ho to Van Gogh: Observer critics’ culture highlights for 2024

December 2023

  • Christine Flores, Melissa Toogood, Victor Lozano, Maile Okamura, Zachary Gonder and company in Song of Songs by Pam Tanowitz and David Lang.

    Observer critics' review of 2023
    Dance: Sarah Crompton’s five best shows of 2023

    Tiler Peck breezed in, Carmen Herrera bowed out, Benji Reid made a dazzling return and Pam Tanowitz entranced
  • Rosie Sheehy in Machinal at the Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal, Bath.

    2023 in Culture
    Readers’ favourite stage shows of 2023

    This year, our readers were blown away by productions from Machinal to Free Your Mind – with one theatregoer returning to watch Groundhog Day four times
  • English National Ballet’s James Streeter as The Mouse King and Junor Sousa as the Nutcracker.

    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

November 2023

  • William Bracewell, Fumi Kaneko, Wayne McGregor's The Dante Project ©2023 ROH. Ph Andrej Uspenski (1)

    The week in dance: The Dante Project; Lay Down Your Burdens – review

    Everything comes together in an exhilarating Royal Ballet revival of The Dante Project, while Rhiannon Faith’s new work is all about sharing…

October 2023

  • Lauren Cuthbertson (Jacqueline du Pré), Marcelino Sambé (The Instrument) in The Cellist

    The Cellist; The Limit review – a tale of two Royal Ballet dramas

  • Alexander Campbell and Francesca Hayward in rehearsal for The Limit at the Royal Opera House

    Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons: the cult play about words becomes a ballet

  • ‘Full of joy’: Marianela Nuñez and Vadim Muntagirov in Don Quixote.

    Don Quixote review – Nuñez and Muntagirov deliver a sensational shock of sunshine

  • Marianela Nuñez in mid-air, doing the splits with arms thrown back above her head

    Don Quixote review – sunshine, warmth and dazzling technique from the Royal Ballet

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