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Royal Ballet star Marianela Nunez says she learned English by watching Friends

The 42-year-old was speaking on Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4.

Evening Standard

The week in dance: Nutcracker; Ruination; Cinderella review – sugar plums, hard centres and off to the ball

ENB’s new Nutcracker recaptures the joy, while Royal Ballet finesse shines through the bling in a Frederick Ashton classic. Plus, a searing festive antidote from Ben Duke

The Guardian - UK

Encounters at the Royal Ballet review: spiky and reflective works – despite the hour-long interval

3/5 This quartet of contemporary dances offers eccentric movement, bravura quartets and meditations on relationships, loneliness and destiny

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Ballet star Joseph Sissens: ‘I’d be in this world of gross privilege, and then I’d go visit my brother in prison’

As the Royal Ballet’s newly minted principal, the dancer is on a mission to challenge the industry’s underlying racism from the inside. He discusses his first steps – and the role of his dreams

The Guardian - UK

‘If you slip, it hurts your soul’: the ballerina who asked a sports psychologist for coaching

Huge audiences and even larger livestreams are putting a whole new type of pressure on dancers. Yasmine Naghdi, principal of the Royal Ballet, tells us how Britt Tajet-Foxell fixed more than just her fouettés

The Guardian - UK

The Sarasota Ballet review – a delightful tribute to Frederick Ashton

As part of the Royal Ballet’s season devoted to the British choreographer, the Florida company brings three of his works to radiant, graceful life

The Guardian - UK

Carlos Acosta: ‘It’s hard to talk about weight in ballet’

The Havana-born superstar may have retired from dancing nearly a decade ago, but he has no plans to slow down. Currently the artistic director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, he talks to Charlotte Cripps about ballet and Black Sabbath, middle-aged spread, and his plans to bring ballet to the masses

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The Royal Ballet: Ashton Celebrated review – a world where everything is just delightful

Launching a four-year celebration of Frederick Ashton’s genteel ‘English style’, this triple bill is full of refined beauty and pleasure – though with athleticism visible below the surface

The Guardian - UK

Royal Ballet and Opera announces ambitious new season – and name change

2024-25 programme includes premieres of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s opera Festen and Wayne McGregor’s Margaret Atwood ballet MaddAddam

The Guardian - UK

Festival of New Choreography review – the Royal Ballet spreads its wings

Impressive new work from Joshua Junker and Mthuthuzeli November pushes dancers well beyond the classical repertoire

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

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Marcelino Sambé’s cultural highlights

The Royal Ballet principal dancer on his favourite performance art, a surprising black comedy, and a musical that made him question everything

The Guardian - UK

Leaps and bounds: ex principal dancer uses ballet to transform young lives in Leeds

A former Royal Ballet star is offering free lessons to make ballet more inclusive and turn its elitist reputation on its head

The Guardian - UK

Northern Ballet: Generations; Maud Le Pladec: Twenty-Seven Perspectives – review

Northern Ballet’s triple bill demonstrates the vital link between live music and action

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Evening Standard

Balletcore is the trend that keeps on giving

AllSaints adds another fashion string to the balletcore bow, as it announces a new partnership with The Royal Ballet

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

Evening Standard

What to see at the Greenwich+Docklands International Festival: our picks of this year’s mega line-up

Ready your diaries: the London festival returns with a jam-packed roster of inspiring and thought-provoking shows

The Independent UK

Carlos Acosta wants dance centre to become inclusive global landmark

The former Royal Ballet star wants to bridge dance and community engagement gaps.

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Wayne McGregor: ‘Levelling up excellence everywhere, including London, should be something we can manage’

The superstar choreographer has three new works in London, but he’s frustrated by the demands on a cultural landscape stripped by funding cuts

The Guardian - UK

Dancer Edward Watson: ‘Get the wind machine, get my clothes off and get out there’

The performer talks us through the photographers who documented his shapeshifting career with the Royal Ballet

Daily Mirror

A day in the life of a ballerina - dizzying turns, snapping shoes and wig fittings

The Royal Ballet invited Mirror writer Amber O'Connor behind the scenes at the Royal Opera House to see where the magic happens and watch principal dancer Mayara Magri in rehearsal for The Sleeping Beauty

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Burberry to collaborate with Wayne McGregor on new work for The Royal Ballet

Burberry creative director Daniel Lee will work on costumes for British choreographer Wayne McGregor’s new work for The Royal Ballet, premiering 9 June 2023 at London’s Royal Opera House

The Guardian - UK

Cinderella review – Ashton’s classic fairytale with extra frills

Marianela Nuñez, Vadim Muntagirov and company shine – as do their costumes – in the Royal Ballet’s over-the-top new design of this intricate work

Evening Standard

My London: Francesca Hayward

Royal Ballet principal dancer Francesca Hayward dines like it’s the last night on Earth at Scott’s, loves a Covent Garden pub crawl and always saves her energy in the back of a taxi

The Guardian - UK

Woolf Works review – Alessandra Ferri goes deeper in Wayne McGregor’s modern masterpiece

The Italian star graces a flawless revival of McGregor’s dreamlike 2015 ballet inspired by the writings of Virginia Woolf

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