Ballet
Giselle, Coliseum, London
Since its Paris premiere in 1841, Giselle has undergone many changes and makeovers. The Russian version - revised from the original by Perrot and Petipa - offers the most streamlined narrative with all the excesses of pageantry and an illogical happy endi
Mikhailovsky Ballet: Giselle, Coliseum - dance review
The dance world’s collective jaw dropped when hot young ballet couple Ivan Vasiliev and Natalia Osipova jumped ship from the Bolshoi Ballet to the lesser-known Mikhailovsky.
Dance review: The Mikhailovsky Ballet, London Coliseum
Even before she becomes a ghost, Natalia Osipova’s Giselle defies gravity.
Family Weekend: BalletLorent - Sadler's Wells
After sell-out performances of Underneath the Floorboards at Sadler's Wells Lilian Baylis Studio last year, balletLORENT returns to Family Weekend to perform a new version of the Brothers Grimm fairytale, Rapunzel, written by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy
The Rest is Noise Festival: Rite of Spring reviews from the archive
How the Guardian and the Observer reviewed Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in 1913 The Rite of Spring, the ballet with music written by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky, was first performed in Paris on 29 May 1913. Written for Sergei Diagh
The Mikhailovsky Ballet and a tale of two Giselles
The Mikhailovsky Ballet opens its London season this week with the most perfect of all romantic ballets, Giselle.
The Mikhailovsky In London: An Interview with Mikhail Messerer
The Mikhailovsky Ballet kicks off its London residency this week. In its third appearance at the Coliseum (where it previously performed in
Mini-review - Aladdin - Birmingham Royal Ballet at London Coliseum
A new, full-length ballet is always a cause for celebration in this age of fiscal cutbacks, so I was excited that Birmingham Royal Ballet was bringing its production of Aladdin to London for all of us Big Smoke dwellers to see. Whee! What would David Bint
My First Cinderella - English National Ballet 2 - Peacock Theatre,Sadler's Wells
My First Cinderella tells everyone’s favourite rags-to-riches story in a beautifully adapted version for young audiences. Cinderella is tormented by her spiteful stepsisters and she can only dream of attending the Prince’s glamorous ball. Abandoned to