This third and last of The Royal Ballet’s mixed bills this season promised much and delivered considerably less. What seemed on paper as an exciting mix of works proved to be a stodgy combination which served to confirm, if further confirmation were still needed, that the construction of coherent and stimulating evenings of dance are …
Enterprising to a T, English National Ballet has taken an otherwise empty Royal Festival Hall for a couple of weeks with a potpourri medley of excerpts from some of their greatest recent successes and most popular works. It is a fun evening in which nothing outstays its welcome and which allows those unfamiliar with the …
A collective sigh of relief was to be heard in Floral Street after the performance of The Royal Ballet’s second ‘come back’ programme; after all, their first had been a dull, ill-conceived and decidedly dispiriting offering which did nothing to raise the shared spirit or herald the return to the stage of one of the …
It is hard to imagine a more feel-good evening at the ballet – English National Ballet’s return to stage performance on the very first day of social easing and the first time Sadler’s Wells Theatre has opened its doors to the public since 2020. To celebrate the reunion of artists and audience, director Tamara Rojo …
