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A brand-new Youth Ballet Company has launched for ballet dancers aged 5-20 years across the South of Scotland region. South of Scotland Youth Ballet Company (SoSYBCo.) is an exciting new programme ...
Indianapolis Ballet's 2025-26 season will be marked by another major collaboration with the Indianapolis Symphony as well as several premieres. In September, the company will perform George ...
As a ballet it's accessible for audiences, and offers decent roles for the four lead artists. Dancers need new roles, especially narrative ones, in order to keep developing, and we see more debuts ...
Were the architect prophets of modernism around today, they no doubt would be dismayed to witness the ongoing classical revival, in evidence most recently and significantly in Robert A. M. Stern ...
"It was very important to Amy and Dan to make sure that we were showing the ballet world the way it truly is, which meant at a super high level," said series choreographer Marguerite Derricks.
In the dark, brick-walled basement of the Kharkiv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, a dance company has created a space protected from drones and bombs where audiences can lose ...
Typically, one sounded during our conversation – and another when I went to see an extraordinary ballet performance later that day in a basement beneath Kharkiv’s imposing opera house ...
Who remembers the Dido era? There was a period of time at the turn of the 21st century when you couldn’t get into a car, go to the mall or meet a friend for dinner without hearing the British ...
Sunderland’s The Fire Station hosts its first live opera this summer as Samling Academy Opera stages a new take on an English classic, spotlighting emerging North East talent.
Courtesy Chris Hardy/Smuin Contemporary Ballet. Smuin’s ‘Dance Series 2’ Smuin Contemporary Ballet’s latest program features both new work and old favorites. Smuin’s Artistic Director Amy Seiwert ...
Premiered in France in 1789, La Fille Mal Gardee is a lighthearted comedy that blends classical ballet with folk dance, pantomime and lively humour. It is one of the oldest ballets still performed ...
The ballet sequence during the Walpurgis night scene begins traditional but soon descends into madness with an orgy at the conclusion; in the cathedral, demonic dancers pursue Marguerite ...