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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland review – all stops are pulled out for Wheeldon ballet

Vivid designs, frog and fish footmen and a comedy dame bring good energy to the Royal Ballet’s Alice, with beautiful dancing from the leads

The Guardian - UK

Manon review – Kenneth MacMillan’s 50-year-old masterpiece still bewitches

The Royal Ballet revisits the choreographer’s timeless rags-to-riches work, putting assorted casts through its finely tuned emotional wringer

The Guardian - UK

Manon review – the Royal Ballet brings beauty to sordid snake pits of Paris

Kenneth MacMillan’s journey into a world of darkness is performed with consummate craft by a superb company

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Manon at Royal Opera House review: Kenneth MacMillan’s tragedy has never cut deeper

The unconventional but enduring ballet bites again

Evening Standard

The week in dance: The Dante Project; Lay Down Your Burdens – review

Everything comes together in an exhilarating Royal Ballet revival of The Dante Project, while Rhiannon Faith’s new work is all about sharing…

The Guardian - UK

The Dante Project at Royal Opera House review: a sin-tilating take on the Divine Comedy

With an astonishing score and gleaming dancers, McGregor's latest marshals spectacular forces

Evening Standard

The Cellist; The Limit review – a tale of two Royal Ballet dramas

Lauren Cuthbertson and Marcelino Sambé reprise their roles to glorious effect in Cathy Marston’s inspired paean to Jacqueline du Pré, while an adaptation of Sam Steiner’s hit play Lemons… feels squeezed

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The Limit review – oppressed pair make words and steps count

Sam Steiner’s play, set in a world of rationed speech, lends itself to movement, and the dancers here also retain the dialogue, fusing the forms with quiet grace

The Guardian - UK

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons: the cult play about words becomes a ballet

When a principal at the Royal Ballet asked to adapt his drama about imposed verbal limits, playwright Sam Steiner was all in. ‘There are things dance does better,’ he says

The Guardian - UK

Frederick Ashton: Links in the Chain review – fascinating study of a master choreographer

Lynne Wake’s film about Ashton, available online, is a compelling glimpse into the way his great works are reinterpreted by new generations of dancers

The Guardian - UK

The Royal Ballet: A Diamond Celebration review – looking forward with friends

World premieres, old favourites and a ballet legend in the house make for a memorable gala evening

The Guardian - UK

Mayerling review – astounding from beginning to end

Kenneth MacMillan’s bleak psychological period piece is a gift for the Royal Ballet’s dancers, who take turns in performances of gripping, in-the-moment power

The Guardian - UK

Noughties indie sleaze shoe returns – ballet flats are back on point

Forever associated with the era of Amy Winehouse, Kate Moss and Alexa Chung, the footwear has been rediscovered by Gen Z

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Royal Ballet star says Swan Lake role left her ‘so tired she could barely walk’

The Royal Ballet dancer was so tired one night that she had to be carried back to her dressing room at the interval

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The Car Man; Like Water for Chocolate review – two narrative delights

Matthew Bourne and Christopher Wheeldon bring masterly cinematic power to their adaptations of Bizet’s Carmen and Laura Esquivel’s 1989 novel

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Christopher Wheeldon: ‘Most boys at ballet school were closeted, terrified our parents would disown us’

As his version of Like Water for Chocolate opens at the Royal Opera House, the choreographer talks about how the ballet world is changing – and why he took on the Michael Jackson musical

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Royal Ballet: Swan Lake review – gorgeous grandeur

Francesca Hayward brings intelligence and sensuality to her debut in the dual role of an uneven but stylish production

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