by Claudia Bauer | Aug 27, 2017 | Career, Profiles
Wearing leggings and a puffy vest as she works in one of The Royal Ballet’s light-filled studios, Charlotte Edmonds could pass for a corps de ballet member. Instead, she is choreographing on them, creating dynamic, ballet-based contemporary dance in her role as...
by Laura Cappelle | Apr 3, 2017 | Profiles, Technique
In Wayne McGregor’s high-octane Chroma, The Royal Ballet’s Sarah Lamb finds meditative stillness. As told to Laura Cappelle Chroma was the first ballet I worked on with Wayne McGregor, and it was like embarking on a relationship for the first time....
by Hanna Rubin | Mar 31, 2016 | Career
This story originally appeared in the April/May 2016 issue of Pointe. In the Prologue to Christopher Wheeldon’s recent ballet The Winter’s Tale, two boys, princely playmates who one day will become kings, are joined onstage by two women veiled in black....
by Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone | Dec 14, 2015 | Company Life
The May, 2015 premiere of Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works was part of a recent resurgence in narrative and semi-narrative ballets deriving inspiration from works of literature. In this video by Malcolm Venville for Nowness’ Portrait of a Dancer series, we see...
by Laura Cappelle | Apr 8, 2015 | News
This story originally appeared in the April/May 2015 issue of Pointe. Nine years after Chroma, Wayne McGregor is embarking upon a new challenge in London: his first evening-length creation for The Royal Ballet. Woolf Works, which has its world premiere in May, will be...
by Lauren Wingenroth | Nov 28, 2001 | Company Life
This week, The Royal Ballet will premiere Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works, a full-length ballet inspired by the work of modernist writer Virginia Woolf. Paired with a new score by Max Richter, Woolf Works is McGregor’s first full-length piece for the Royal,...