Watch: behind-the-scenes with young creatives
Rising young choreographer Freya Thomas is just 18 but is already putting the finishing touches to a new work to be performed on the Royal Opera House’s main stage in July 2011. Dance Futures: Freya...
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Waltzing socialites make heads spin
Dancers from La Traviata © Neil Gillespie/ROH 2011 Drunks, flirts, excessive dresses and broken hearts. Nope we aren't talking about The Only Way is Essex, but La traviata. Back at the opera house for...
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Frederick Ashton Foundation Launched
Frederick Ashton as A Dago in Facade © Gordon Anthony/ROH 1953 The Frederick Ashton Foundation has been launched, with the principal aim of perpetuating the legacy and work of the distinguished...
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Exposure:Dance 2012 at the Royal Opera House
Exposure:Dance 2012 © Hugo Glendinning/ROH 2012 Exposure: Dance (23-25 February) offers the chance to see a range of exciting contemporary work in a programme of short pieces from emerging...
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Tamara Rojo fuses east and west in new TV series
Tamara Rojo and Fei Bo in rehearsal © CNN International/Fusion Journeys 2011 Royal Ballet Principal Tamara Rojo recently visited China to create a new piece of work with choreographer Fei Bo. Tamara...
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Watch: Christopher Wheeldon rehearsing Polyphonia
Dawid Trzensimiech and Alexander Campbell in Polyphonia © Bill Cooper/ROH 2012 As Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 leaves the Covent Garden stage, fans of the work of Christopher Wheeldon can console...
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Young Creatives choreography competition now open
The Royal Ballet in rehearsal for Asphodel Meadows © Johan Persson/ROH 2011 Youth Dance England is looking for talented choreographers aged 15 to 19 to take part in its Young Creatives competition....
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New Ballet Works Syndicate launched
Edward Watson and Marianela Nunez in Infra © Bill Cooper/ROH 2010 The staging of a new ballet at The Royal Ballet involves a lengthy and creative collaboration between the choreographer, costume...
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A guide to Sir Kenneth MacMillan
Kenneth MacMillan after being presented with the 1978 Evening Standard Award © Donald Southern The choreographer behind some of the greatest ballets of the 20th century, Sir Kenneth MacMillan...
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Liam Scarlett appointed Royal Ballet Artist in Residence
Liam Scarlett © ROH 2011 Liam Scarlett has been appointed the first ever Royal Ballet Artist in Residence. The position will allow him to focus solely on his choreographic work. He will take up the...
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Draft Works 2013: A chance for dancers to play with movement
Nathalie Harrison and Eric Underwood in Agon ©Bill Cooper/ROH 2009 This April, Royal Ballet dancers have the opportunity to showcase their choreographic skills by presenting new, developmental works as...
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500 primary school children from around England come together to perform at...
Children performing in a Dance Dynamics sharing © ROH/Brian Slater, 2013 The Royal Opera House's Paul Hamlyn Hall was recently filled with more than 500 primary school children from all over England....
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Mayuri Boonham on fusing Indian classical dance with ballet in Ex Nihilo/The...
Royal Ballet Dancers Kenta Kura and Yuhui Choe in rehearsals with Mayuri Boonham for Ex Nihilo / The Human Edge © ROH / Ruairi Watson Ex nihilo/The Human Edge, two new works by Royal Ballet...
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Carlos Acosta choreographs his first musical, Broadway classic Guys and Dolls
Carlos Acosta rehearsing for Don Quixote © ROH / Johan Persson 2013 Royal Ballet Principal Guest Artist Carlos Acosta has choreographed his first musical, a production of the Broadway classic Guys and...
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland dance highlight: The Caterpillar
Eric Underwood as the Caterpillar in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Royal Ballet © ROH / Johan Persson 2013 Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has been described as ‘both...
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Ingenious, expressive, and unconventional: Onegin and the use of gesture
Laura Morera as Tatiana and Federico Bonelli as Onegin in Onegin © ROH / Bill Cooper 2010 Alexander Pushkin’s verse novel Eugene Onegin is anything but an ideal subject for a dramatic, operatic or...
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Petipa and Ivanov: The dance partnership that saved Swan Lake
Roberta Marquez as Odette and members of the corps de ballet in Swan Lake, The Royal Ballet © ROH/Bill Cooper, 2011 Marius Petipa has gone down in history as the father of 19th-century Russian ballet....
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La Fille mal gardée Dance Highlight: The Pas de ruban (Ribbon dance)
Marianela Nuñez as Lise and Carlos Acosta as Colas in La Fille mal gardée © Bill Cooper Since its premiere in 1960, Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée has become one of his best-loved works, and a...
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Swashbuckling safely: Inside the Royal Opera House Armoury
Bennet Gartside in Romeo and Juliet Did you know that the Royal Opera House has its very own armoury? It's not that we're planning on invading any neighbouring West End theatres (the odd transfer from...
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A Meditation on Love: The troubled creation of Jerome Robbins’s In the Night
Alexander Campbell and Emma Maguire in In the Night, The Royal Ballet © ROH/Tristram Kenton, 2012 In the spring of 1969, after a 13-year absence directing and choreographing Broadway musicals, straight...
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