Review: Black Sabbath – The Ballet, Lowry, Salford
Black Sabbath – The Ballet from Birmingham Royal Ballet brings together classical ballet and...
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Tag: dance
The Lost Happy Endings: former refugee Benedicta Valentina Mamuini takes lead role at Theatre Royal, Newcastle
A dancer who came to Newcastle upon Tyne as a six-year-old refugee from Angola is to star in a homecoming performance at the city’s Theatre Royal later this month. Benedicta Valentina Mamuini, 26, will take on the lead...
Read MoreShobana Jeyasingh and Tom Piper talk to Northern Soul about Bayadère – The Ninth Life
Shobana Jeyasingh wants to make it clear that the world premiere of her Bayadère – The Ninth Life at Salford’s Lowry this week is not simply another version of Marius Petipa’s famous classical ballet La Bayadère. The...
Read MoreSomme 100 Pals: a National Commemoration in Manchester
Everyone has heard of the Battle of the Somme, the battle which symbolises the horrors of warfare in the First World War. Fought from July 1916 until November of that year, it resulted in more than one million casualties on the...
Read MoreReview: Phoenix Dance Theatre, Triple Bill 2016, Leeds
There was a celebratory feel about the opening night of Triple Bill 2016 at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds. At 35-years-old, Phoenix Dance Theatre is the longest standing contemporary dance company outside of London, and...
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