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Happy Birthday to a Ballet Legend

Sir Anthony Dowell, principal dancer at The Royal Ballet from 1966 to 1984 and director of the company from 1986 to 2001, celebrates his 70th birthday this Saturday, February 16th. A strong and masterful technical dancer, Dowell created the role of Oberon in Frederick Ashton’s masterpiece The Dream. Anotinette Sibley was his Titania, and the […]

New Reality Dance Show

The Ballet Boyz just might be Britain’s coolest classical rebels. Former Royal Ballet dancers Michael Nunn and Billy Trevitt broke off from that company in 2000 to start their own thing, choreographing a ballet for the two of them and Sylvie Guillem, launching an all-male troupe called TALENT, producing Darcey Bussell’s farewell, creating a documentary […]

Work In Progress: A Rendezvous with "Tryst"

One of several Americans to join The Royal Ballet lately, soloist Eric Underwood has become an audience favorite in London, particularly in neo-classical and contemporary repertoire. The former American Ballet Theatre corps member has notably created a number of roles in works by Wayne McGregor and Christopher Wheeldon. Last year, he debuted in Wheeldon’s 2002 […]

Young, Talented And Hopeful

Sixteen-year-old Daisy Long takes the stage during the quarter-finals at Switzerland’s Prix de Lausanne, dancing the contemporary variation she’s selected—Jirí Kylián’s One of a Kind, a somber solo, set to a melancholy cello, in which she wears all black. Although Long is number 15, she’s the eighth girl to dance this piece in front of […]

To The Manner Born

What do you enjoy most about your career as a ballet dancer? Being able to transform myself into other characters and also doing pas de deux work. What do you enjoy least? Injuries—pain! To whom or what do you attribute your success? I owe both Monica Mason and Jonathan Cope for coaching me. What role […]

Dancer's Notebook: My Week at the Genée International Ballet Competition

My name is Claire Wu, and I’m a Dance major at Butler University. Earlier this month I went to Hong Kong to participate in the 2018 Genée International Ballet Competition, hosted by the Royal Academy of Dance. The Genée is for dancers who have received RAD training and passed their last vocational exam (Advanced Two) […]