Ballet
Mary QoS Ballet for EIF
Scottish Ballet to premiere Mary, Queen of Scots ballet at EIF 2025
Scottish Ballet is adding a new full-length narrative ballet about Mary, Queen of Scots to its repertoire, with a premiere at next summer’s Edinburgh International Festival, followed by a Scottish tour.
Quadrophenia Ballet for Festival Theatre
Townsend and The Who’s album gets ballet treatment
The Who’s 1973 rock opera Quadrophenia is to be re-imagined by Sadler’s Wells as a dance production: Quadrophenia, A Mod Ballet, which will get its Scottish premiere at the Festival Theatre in June 2025.
Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet
★★★★☆ Radical and inventive
Matthew Bourne’s radical reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet for his New Adventures company, creates a ballet about the powerless and the powerful which highlights the madness of young love and the crazy things it forces us to do.
Swan Lake
★★★★☆ Classically beautiful
Birmingham Royal Ballet’s traditional Swan Lake spellbinds its audience with Tchaikovsky’s iconic and emotive score performed live by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, just as Odile spellbinds Prince Siegfried.
Playhouse pulls Russian ballet
Russian State Ballet Company of Siberia cancelled
The Edinburgh Playhouse has cancelled next week’s performances from Russian State Ballet Company of Siberia, because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Gene Kelly Ballet for SB
Scottish Ballet is planning a hybrid tour and feature-length film this autumn of Starstruck, a reworking with new elements of Gene Kelly’s 1960 ballet Pas de Dieux, which will be getting its UK premiere in the production.
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake
★★★★★ Magnificent:
It’s 23 years since Mathew Bourne changed the gender of the swans in Swan Lake for his choreography of the ballet, which is at the Festival Theatre all week to Saturday.