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Royal Ballet dancers do battle with an explosive backdrop

16.05.11
The Royal Ballet performed Ballo Della Regina for the first time on Friday night alongside a new work by resident choreographer Wayne McGregor who, by contrast, foregrounds ballet's difficulty... more

Royal Ballet's Cinderella gets audience in the Christmas mood

22.11.10
Christmas ballet officially began at the weekend with The Royal Ballet’s wonderful production of Cinderella... more

Sylvia is so easy on the eye

04.11.10
Even if you find the story silly, and the theatrics barely credible, both of which are easily done, the moment Sylvia leaps on the stage you are hooked... more

Second chance pays off for Royal Ballet

18.10.10
Kim Brandstrup's new piece for The Royal Ballet held its own in a mixed bill that featured canonical work by all three of the mighty trio... more

No holes barred for Royal Ballet

24.05.10
To close its 2009-10 season, The Royal Ballet is performing George Balanchine’s dazzler Symphony in C.... more

Shock and awe rule the day in Royal Ballet show

24.03.10
About halfway through Kenneth MacMillan’s The Judas Tree, a woman is raped by a gang of men while others look pruriently, shiftily on.... more

Acosta’s true class brings us sunshine in La Fille mal Gardée

10.03.10
It’s hard not to rave about La Fille mal Gardée, especially with Marianela Nuñez and Carlos Acosta in the lead roles.... more

Tutu time with the English National Ballet

04.12.09
Who better to twirl into the season's most theatrical party dresses than the English National Ballet's stars?... more

Three-fold surprise from the Royal Ballet

05.11.09
The dancers are very good but everyone seems bemused by the choreography in the Royal Ballet's latest mixed bill.... more

Fairy tale return for Sarah Lamb in Sleeping Beauty

26.10.09
Given she’s been off injured for a year, Sarah Lamb understandably took things carefully in Sleeping Beauty.... more

Diaghilev gala makes a chore out of choreography

08.06.09
A tribute gala to Serge Diaghilev is as much a rebuke of our times as a celebration of his.... more

Convincing case for Giselle

07.04.09
Giselle needs an airy detachment and physical lightness, as well as a mood of sustained regret. Marianela Nuñez caught this exactly.... more

Ballet in the rough

14.11.08
Watching The Royal Ballet dance Wayne McGregor is like stroking a cat the wrong way, says Sarah Frater.... more

Step backwards for Royal Ballet

29.10.08
The Royal Ballet's triple bill is a disappointing combination of scrappy dancing and a riot of bronze lamé. ... more

Nunez gets her prince in Swan Lake

06.10.08
Argentine-born dancer Marianela Nunez improves her performance in Swan Lake with a more convincing Odile and Odette. ... more

Love at first night

27.05.08
Marianela Nunez and Thiago Soares had a good stab at portraying Romeo and Juliet's love story when they made their joint debut in the ballet.... more

A near perfect princess

18.03.08
Undoubtedly one of the best, Tamara Rojo was almost perfect as Princess Aurora in the Royal Ballet production of Sleeping Beauty.... more

Carlos the ladies' man

08.10.07
Carlos Acosta is one of the best dancers of his generation, but in La Bayadère, this dazzling dancer looked too tired to dance. ... more

Highs and lows of Mayerling

10.04.07
Edward Watson makes a hugely assured debut dancing Crown Prince Rudolf - the most demanding male lead in all classical ballet - in Kenneth MacMillan's Mayerling.... more

Posh panto with skippy-skippy dancing

16.10.06
Coppélia is a posh panto, with hohum music and skippy-skippy dancing. And The Royal Ballet's production needs re-doing. But who cares, asks Sarah Frater?... more

The best dance in town

13.10.06
William Forsythe's latest work and Coppelia at the Royal Ballet are Sarah Frater's pick of the capital's current choreographic delights.... more


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