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NORTHERN Ballet’s hit production of ‘Romeo & Juliet’ has survived fire, flood and the changing fashions of more than three decades.

NORTHERN Ballet’s hit production of Romeo and Juliet has survived fire, flood and the changing fashions of more than three decades.

The Royal Ballet celebrates Christmas with the return of The Nutcracker. Get ready for a magical holiday season with this beloved ballet.

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

Northern Ballet presents the Generations: Three Short Ballets triple bill at the Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House as part of its national tour this autumn.

The highlight is New York City Ballet star Tiler Peck’s new piece ‘Intimate Pages’, which shows off the dancers’ crisp technique and sense of drama

One could soundly advise any choreographer to avoid music so transcendentally great in itself that dance can add nothing except banal images. Only a handful of exceptions sneak past the rule: MacMillan’s setting of Song of the Earth, perhaps, and also Hans van Manen’s Adagio Hammerklavier, his audacious attempt to visualise the infinitely slow movement

Federico Bonelli, former longtime principal dancer at the Royal Ballet, is still fresh in his post as the new artistic director of Northern Ballet. Last week, in the studio theatre at the company’s headquarters in Leeds, he launched Northern’s autumn season with a tasty, if atypical, chamber-sized trio of chamber-sized, one-act dances that together span half a century.

Intimate Pages, the newest piece by the US dance star turned choreographer, is the inventive highlight of an adventurous triple bill

A visit from Leeds-based Northern Ballet every Spring at Sadler’s Wells is always a highlight of the dance calendar, and never more so when at their glittering best with their unique dance interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.