The Royal Ballet’s production of Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon, is getting another airing as part of the company’s 2013 Spring season. I went to see the performance on Thursday, which starred Sarah Lamb, Federico Bonelli and Ricardo Cervera but not, sadly, Stephen McRae who is still out of action. That was a […]

The Royal Ballet have announced their new 2013/14 season, the first full season under their new Director, Kevin O’Hare. And there’s lots to look forward to. Let’s get the obvious ones out of the way first; yes, they will be doing The Nutcracker at Christmas. Yes, they will be doing another Tchaikovsky/Petipa crowd pleaser – […]

The latest Royal Ballet triple bill brings together one revival – George Balanchine’s 1928 Apollo – with two premieres – Alexei Ratmansky’s 24 Preludes and Christopher Wheeldon’s Aeternum. I am normally a complete pushover for anything by Balanchine but I saw Apollo last year in the English National Ballet’s Beyond Ballet Russes Programme and wasn’t […]

The Mikhailovsky Theatre Ballet Company is coming to the London Coliseum at the end of March with a programme that includes Giselle, Don Quixote, Laurencia (described as a production from the ‘golden age’ of Soviet ballet) and a selection of pieces by their artistic director, Nacho Duato. The Mikhailovsky used be a bit of a poor […]