Birmingham Royal Ballet
Bintley Triple Bill, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Sadler’s WellsWednesday, 16 October 2013
Is David Bintley the one that got away, the wrong turning the Royal Ballet took in the early 1990s? I have long thought so, and watching their current triple bill, the feeling only grows. Bintley trained at the Royal Ballet School, graduated into... Read more... |
Birmingham Royal Ballet, 2013-14 SeasonTuesday, 09 April 2013
A new ballet on Benjamin Britten's The Prince of the Pagodas headlines Birmingham Royal Ballet's announcement of its 2013-14 season. David Bintley is tackling a tricky score that Britten wrote originally for John Cranko in 1957, and later taken up... Read more... |
Aladdin, Birmingham Royal Ballet, London ColiseumThursday, 21 March 2013
“Possibly the least ‘deep’ ballet I’ve ever made” - these are the words that David Bintley uses to describe his latest full-length work Aladdin, and they make rather a discouraging start to any evening. "Light" isn’t necessarily bad – work created... Read more... |
London and Birmingham ballet promotions, welcomes and farewellsTuesday, 10 July 2012The two Royal Ballets at Covent Garden and Birmingham have announced their end-of-season farewells and news for next season's dancers.The Royal Ballet's big-name departures at the end of this season have already been big news - Sergei Polunin's... Read more... |
The Grand Tour/ Faster/ The Dream, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Birmingham HippodromeThursday, 28 June 2012
Cafés, ballets, it’s all the same to the mighty petty bullyboys of the London Olympics, who have not only devised two of the most revolting mascots in Olympic history (the one-eyed slugs Wenlock and Mandeville) but also employed teams of... Read more... |
Hopeful Olympic gymnast's routine created by ballet dancerThursday, 31 May 2012Five-times British champion gymnast Frankie Jones has picked a routine for her Olympics attempt created by Birmingham Royal Ballet principal dancer Matthew Lawrence.Welsh-born 21-year-old Jones is the only British individual rhythmic gymnast to... Read more... |
Ballet industry demands end to "too-thin" dancersTuesday, 24 April 2012Ballerina Tamara Rojo, director-designate of English National Ballet, is making waves even before she takes up her position in September. Next Monday she is a keynote speaker at a day of events at the Royal Society of Medicine launching the first-... Read more... |
Ballet industry demands end to "too-thin" dancersTuesday, 24 April 2012Ballerina Tamara Rojo, director-designate of English National Ballet, is making waves even before she takes up her position in September. Next Monday she is a keynote speaker at a day of events at the Royal Society of Medicine launching the first-... Read more... |
Birmingham Royal Ballet splits in halfThursday, 05 April 2012Reaching parts of the country that otherwise it couldn't reach, Birmingham Royal Ballet is to do a split tour of mixed ballets across the UK's theatres, one group travelling to south and west, the other going north and east.Now in its ninth year,... Read more... |
Daphnis & Chloë/ The Two Pigeons, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Birmingham HippodromeSaturday, 03 March 2012
There must be a protest movement going on in Birmingham’s ballet against London’s - if down south they insist on Kenneth MacMillan’s box-office blasters, so in the Midlands it’s Frederick Ashton’s more fragile work that reigns. BRB director David... Read more... |
Hobson's Choice, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Birmingham HippodromeThursday, 23 February 2012
It's a rare ballet where the culmination you hope for is that the young guy gets to take over the business (an idea for a Murdoch ballet there, one day?). David Bintley's Hobson's Choice is surely his very best work, unmitigated pleasure for the... Read more... |
Birmingham Royal Ballet, 2012-13 SeasonWednesday, 22 February 2012
Birmingham Royal Ballet has outlined its 2012-13 season for its home base in Birmingham, indicating a shrunken repertoire due to subsidy cuts, but with a new full-length family ballet by David Bintley, Aladdin.The season will celebrate the art of... Read more... |
