Ballet dancers roam Copenhagen’s dark streets in director Jonas Alexander Arnby’s grizzly video for Hess is More’s “Bearsong”.
Ballet dancers roam Copenhagen’s dark streets in director Jonas Alexander Arnby’s grizzly video for Hess is More’s “Bearsong”.
Watch the corps de ballet rehearse Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet. Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk/romeo
Kenneth MacMillan poignant setting of Sergey Prokofiev’s classic score draws out the emotional and psychological intensity of the tale. Romeo and Juliet contains three passionate pas de deux: the lovers’ first meeting, the famous balcony scene and the devastating final tragedy, in which Romeo dances desperately with the lifeless Juliet. The story is set against a wonderful evocation of 16th-century Verona, and includes a bustling marketplace that erupts into a violent sword fight, and a lavish ball held in an elegant mansion.
MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet first arrived at Covent Garden in 1965. Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn took the title roles on the opening night – MacMillan had originally created the work on Lynn Seymour and Christopher Gable. Nevertheless, Fonteyn and Nureyev’s performance had a rapturous reception, with 43 curtain calls and almost forty minutes of applause. The ballet has been at the heart of the Company’s repertory ever since, amassing more than four hundred performances. This classic production has been toured around the world and in 2011 was adapted for arena-scale performances at the O2 Arena.
For the first in our new series with London’s Royal Ballet, British director Andrew Margetson profiles the company’s Principal Lauren Cuthbertson, who discusses the incredible obstacles she’s overcome to become one of the world’s best dancers.
A Cinderella Story
Ballett von John Neumeier
Musik: Sergej Prokofjew
Choreografie und Inszenierung: John Neumeier
Bühnenbild und Kostüme: Jürgen Rose
Dirigent: Simon Hewett
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Das HAMBURG BALLETT
Corps de Ballet Member Kristen Segin talks about letting loose and bonding with fellow corps members in Jerome Robbins’ iconic “ballet in sneakers”, NY Export: Opus Jazz.
A young girl’s enchanted present leads her on a wonderful adventure in this classic ballet, danced to Tchaikovsky’s glittering score. Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk/nutcracker