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Royal Ballet's Anna Rose O'Sullivan: 'my duty is to give it my absolute everything'

Being Principal dancer at The Royal Ballet comes with serious demands, but Anna Rose O’Sullivan is someone taking on the role with absolute commitment and a good hunk of joy

Evening Standard

The Royal Ballet’s celebration of Christopher Wheeldon showcases the choreographer’s dazzling range

4/5 Four works show the remarkable choreographic range of The Royal Ballet’s Artistic Associate, Christopher Wheeldon

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'We have to drive the art forms forward': Royal Opera and Ballet announce new season for 2025/26

The programming has been unveiled by Royal Ballet and Opera, and it is an exciting mix of the historic and the cutting edge

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Royal Ballet to perform Justin Peck’s Everywhere We Go, with music by Sufjan Stevens

Director Kevin O’Hare announces staging of NYCB choreographer Peck’s 2014 piece, as well as new works by Akram Khan and Cathy Marston

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Balanchine: Three Signature Works (Royal Ballet) review: an extraordinary dance brain

4/5 This triple bill in the Dance Reflections festival is a joyous look at a man who wasn’t fun to marry, but was a remarkable choreographer

Evening Standard

TV tonight: an essential report on the civil war in Sudan

Krishnan Guru-Murthy reports from an African disaster zone. Plus: ballet superstar Steven McRae’s gruelling road to recovery. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

The week in dance: Romeo and Juliet; Deepstaria – review

Matthew Ball and Yasmine Naghdi enchant as the Royal Ballet celebrates 60 years of Kenneth MacMillan’s classic. And into the void with Wayne McGregor

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Royal Ballet school settles with former student over body shaming claim

Ellen Elphick, 31, accused the elite institution in London of breaching its duty of care

The Guardian - UK

Royal Ballet star Marianela Nunez says she learned English by watching Friends

The 42-year-old was speaking on Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4.

Evening Standard

The week in dance: Nutcracker; Ruination; Cinderella review – sugar plums, hard centres and off to the ball

ENB’s new Nutcracker recaptures the joy, while Royal Ballet finesse shines through the bling in a Frederick Ashton classic. Plus, a searing festive antidote from Ben Duke

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Encounters at the Royal Ballet review: spiky and reflective works – despite the hour-long interval

3/5 This quartet of contemporary dances offers eccentric movement, bravura quartets and meditations on relationships, loneliness and destiny

Evening Standard

Ballet star Joseph Sissens: ‘I’d be in this world of gross privilege, and then I’d go visit my brother in prison’

As the Royal Ballet’s newly minted principal, the dancer is on a mission to challenge the industry’s underlying racism from the inside. He discusses his first steps – and the role of his dreams

The Guardian - UK

‘If you slip, it hurts your soul’: the ballerina who asked a sports psychologist for coaching

Huge audiences and even larger livestreams are putting a whole new type of pressure on dancers. Yasmine Naghdi, principal of the Royal Ballet, tells us how Britt Tajet-Foxell fixed more than just her fouettés

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The Sarasota Ballet review – a delightful tribute to Frederick Ashton

As part of the Royal Ballet’s season devoted to the British choreographer, the Florida company brings three of his works to radiant, graceful life

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Carlos Acosta: ‘It’s hard to talk about weight in ballet’

The Havana-born superstar may have retired from dancing nearly a decade ago, but he has no plans to slow down. Currently the artistic director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, he talks to Charlotte Cripps about ballet and Black Sabbath, middle-aged spread, and his plans to bring ballet to the masses

The Guardian - UK

The Royal Ballet: Ashton Celebrated review – a world where everything is just delightful

Launching a four-year celebration of Frederick Ashton’s genteel ‘English style’, this triple bill is full of refined beauty and pleasure – though with athleticism visible below the surface

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Royal Ballet and Opera announces ambitious new season – and name change

2024-25 programme includes premieres of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s opera Festen and Wayne McGregor’s Margaret Atwood ballet MaddAddam

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Festival of New Choreography review – the Royal Ballet spreads its wings

Impressive new work from Joshua Junker and Mthuthuzeli November pushes dancers well beyond the classical repertoire

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The Guardian - UK

Manon review – the Royal Ballet brings beauty to sordid snake pits of Paris

Kenneth MacMillan’s journey into a world of darkness is performed with consummate craft by a superb company

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Marcelino Sambé’s cultural highlights

The Royal Ballet principal dancer on his favourite performance art, a surprising black comedy, and a musical that made him question everything

The Guardian - UK

Leaps and bounds: ex principal dancer uses ballet to transform young lives in Leeds

A former Royal Ballet star is offering free lessons to make ballet more inclusive and turn its elitist reputation on its head

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Northern Ballet: Generations; Maud Le Pladec: Twenty-Seven Perspectives – review

Northern Ballet’s triple bill demonstrates the vital link between live music and action

Evening Standard

Balletcore is the trend that keeps on giving

AllSaints adds another fashion string to the balletcore bow, as it announces a new partnership with The Royal Ballet

The Guardian - UK

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons: the cult play about words becomes a ballet

When a principal at the Royal Ballet asked to adapt his drama about imposed verbal limits, playwright Sam Steiner was all in. ‘There are things dance does better,’ he says

Evening Standard

What to see at the Greenwich+Docklands International Festival: our picks of this year’s mega line-up

Ready your diaries: the London festival returns with a jam-packed roster of inspiring and thought-provoking shows

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