Ballet

Mary QoS Ballet for EIF

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.

Nov 14 2024 | By | Reply More
Quadrophenia Ballet for Festival Theatre

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.

Jun 25 2024 | By | Reply More
Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet

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.

Sep 20 2023 | By | Reply More
Swan Lake

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.

Apr 1 2023 | By | Reply More
The Snow Queen

The Snow Queen

★★★★☆     Beautifully wintry

The traditional Scottish Ballet festive slot may have shifted forward a little due to the King’s pantomime moving across town, but the return of The Snow Queen still manages to provide the appropriate Christmas glitter.

Nov 25 2022 | By | Reply More
Playhouse pulls Russian ballet

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.

Feb 26 2022 | By | Reply More
Gene Kelly Ballet for SB

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.

Jun 29 2021 | By | Reply More
The Secret Theatre

The Secret Theatre

★★★★☆ Christmas treat

The Secret Theatre may not entirely make up for missing a Christmas trip to the ballet but succeeds impressively on its own terms.

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Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

★★★★☆ Haunting:

Birmingham Royal Ballet put on a truly magical and haunting performance of David Bintley’s Beauty and the Beast, playing the Festival Theatre until Saturday.

Mar 14 2019 | By | Reply More
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake

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.

Oct 17 2018 | By | Reply More