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At Sadler's Wells bad times mean nudity and horses on stage

Ismene Brown Tuesday, 26 October 2010

Sadler’s Wells launched their 2011 season this morning with a warning that the front-loading of arts cuts to the next two years will cut a swathe through the British arts landscape.

Subject: Re: Arts Cuts (Reply All)

theartsdesk Friday, 22 October 2010

It began with a review of 100 Years of German Song. Roused by a comment to a reader (see Igor's comment below), Fisun was moved to email Igor in support of his trenchant views on arts funding.

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From the Ballets Russes, BFI

Judith Flanders Friday, 01 October 2010

Where Busby Berkeley learned everything he knew

This is the second part of a series that has passed a little too quietly for comfort. The V&A’s grand Diaghilev show has received all the noise in the press – “fabulous”, “sumptuous”, “exotic” – in fact, all the words that were used at the time to describe Diaghilev’s company. The only word that isn’t...

The ROH's Create contract tells the truth about the rights grab

theartsdesk Wednesday, 22 September 2010

After Monday's report on the Royal Opera House’s new contract demands, a young composer alerted theartsdesk to an intriguing offer on the Covent Garden website - to "Create" a soundtrack for dance. This is a competition for new talent which will be judged by a team led by Deborah Bull, the ROH’s Creative Director: the winning...

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What did Jane Avril eat? Ask Celebrity Masterchef

Ismene Brown Wednesday, 18 August 2010

What's the preferred scoff of Moulin Rouge can-can dancers? We found out, rather accidentally, last night, if you watched the final of Celebrity Masterchef. And if the world's dancers don't beat down the doors of Paris to get in, I'll eat my chat.

Confirmation: Nacho Duato to lead St Petersburg ballet company

Ismene Brown Wednesday, 28 July 2010

Confirmation today of the astonishing news from Russia - Nacho Duato will indeed become the new director of the Mikhailovsky Ballet, St Petersburg’s second company, from the New Year. The Spanish contemporary choreographer will be the first foreigner to lead a Russian ballet company for more than a century.

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Bolshoi tour - confirmation at last

Ismene Brown Tuesday, 13 July 2010

The Royal Opera House ticketline is taking a while to catch up - last Friday's Moscow castings are now confirmed in London - but various inconsistencies are cropping up. The full confirmed casting list is below.

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A starlet no longer - now Sergei is to be Covent Garden's new star

Ismene Brown Thursday, 10 June 2010

A new male star will be leading the Royal Ballet next season - a prodigious in-house talent of just 20. Sergei Polunin, Ukrainian-born and Royal Ballet School-trained, has been elevated to top rank in the Royal Ballet’s end-of-year promotions after just two years in the company.

Classical ballet and recorders?

Ismene Brown Tuesday, 11 May 2010

White Lodge, the Royal Ballet School's junior wing: now undergoing a £22 million redevelopment

The recorder is indelibly associated with school and dreaded first music classes, but the association will be on a considerably higher plane on 21 June when the world recorder star Michala Petri combines with the Royal Ballet School for a one-off show on Midsummer’s night.

Ballet biography wins top theatre book prize

Ismene Brown Wednesday, 28 April 2010

The Society for Theatre Research’s book of the year award has been won by ballet critic Jann Parry for Different Drummer, her biography of the Royal Ballet choreographer Kenneth MacMillan.