Not long ago Northern Ballet’s artistic director David Nixon told me during rehearsals for this production that “it promises to challenge the idea of what stories can be told through dance”. He wasn’t kidding, nor especially...
Read More“It promises to challenge the idea of what stories can be told through dance,” says Northern Ballet’s artistic director David Nixon. He’s talking about the company’s ground-breaking production of George Orwell’s...
Read MoreI’ve seen Northern Ballet perform before. I’ve liked Northern Ballet before. I genuinely wanted this production to be a success. But somewhere in the space between pseudo-panto and epic, heart-wrenching,...
Read MoreIn 1993 at the pliant age of 17, I went to Bury flicks with my cousin Claire to watch Bram Stoker’s Dracula. I’d never read the book nor had a particular penchant for the romantic storytelling which thrusts through this gothic...
Read MoreNorthern Soul’s Rich Jevons talks to Northern Ballet’s artistic director David Nixon about his early days as a dancer in Canada, his adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, as well...
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