Ballet is just like any other art form. Like music, fashion, film and art, ballet and dance bring out emotion and create response. For...

There’s a lot of hype over Francesca Hayward. Damn right too. She’s a beautiful dancer and deserves to be noticed. A lot of media...

​ It was a long summer. Clinging on to ballet videos on YouTube and re-watching the same clips from the ROH channel is pretty much the...

When the Rite of Spring had its world premiere in Paris in 1913, the audience's reaction wasn't pretty. Outrage, shock and disgust swept...

It seems to me that there's a general consensus that Anthony Dowell's production of Swan Lake should be brushed under the carpet. This is...

I think that one of the first things to say about Onegin is that it's a grown up ballet. If one is expecting princes, tutus, swans or...

On Saturday I attended the Royal Ballet’s matinee of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. This was the first time that I had seen it and I...

Some men are beautiful. That’s what I learnt after Vadim Muntagirov’s performance in Manon. Some male ballet dancers are great partners,...

The first thing to say about Natalia Osipova is that she has some serious fans. Really serious. Some so serious in fact that they tut or...

As a busy twenty- something, the opening of the ballet season last Friday night was sadly missed by myself. I don’t feel like I missed...