The Nutcracker
This story is happening in someone’s head. Let’s call him Drosselmeier. I can almost see him right here. Yes him, the guy who’s waving his arms with the music, that could be Drosselmeier. Or someone else. Or you. Or me.…
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Like Water for Chocolate
Christopher Wheeldon‘s Like Water for Chocolate stars Francesca Hayward and Marcelino Sambé as the leading lovers, while Alondra de la Parra conducts Joby Talbot’s original score. Tita lives with her family on a ranch in Mexico. She falls in love…
Peaky Blinders
Inspired by the TV series and specially filmed on the Birmingham Hippodrome stage, Rambert‘s exhilarating performance of their hit stage show Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby. Adapted for the stage by Steven Knight and choreographed and directed by…
Creature (film)
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Based on the acclaimed English National Ballet production, choreographed by Akram Khan and directed by Academy Award-winning director Asif Kapadia (Senna, Amy, The Warrior), Creature is a genre-busting collaboration that fuses film and contemporary dance. Following English National Ballet‘s 2021…
TWOOLS 16
Between 1999 and 2018, Scapino presented 18 editions of TWOOLS, the programme in which young choreographic talents are given the opportunity to create work for the main stage. More than sixty choreographers have created work for TWOOLS. For many choreographers…
Tchaikovsky Overtures
Alexei Ratmansky is known for his intensive examination of the traditional repertoire of classical ballet and his creative approach to that from the 19th century. After Paquita and Pictures of an Exhibition, he works out a world premiere on music…
Fierce!: Festival Steps
A unique dance school and young dancers’ company, Ballet Junior de Genève has been around for over 50 years, and is recognised internationally for its excellent grounding in the discipline. It offers a wide range of dance styles and creative…