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Dance The Nutcracker Festival Theatre, Edinburgh Mary Brennan five stars I’m happy to report that No Rules have been broken at this Christmas…

Dance The Nutcracker Festival Theatre, Edinburgh Mary Brennan five stars I’m happy to report that No Rules have been broken at this Christmas…

Scottish Ballet has made subtle changes to the famous production in order to make it more inclusive.

THE 2021 Christmas theatre season will be like no other. Following the pandemic-enforced hiatus of last year, Scotland’s theatres are looking…

Scottish Ballet said it is committed to tackling racism.

Scottish Ballet said it is committed to tackling racism.

Updated Friday, 18th December 2020, 10:00 am Six cities, 68 performances and thousands of audience members. That’s how Scottish Ballet should have been spending this winter, bringing sparkle into people’s lives with Peter Darrell’s much-loved version of The Nutcracker. Instead, like everyone else in 2020, Scottish Ballet has had to adapt. If we can’t go to them, they’ll come to us via a brand new film to watch at home that captures the joy of live performance. Combining elements of T...

Arts events for Sarasota-Manatee: Dec. 31-Jan. 6 Dancing into a new year The Sarasota Ballet kicks off the new year with its third digital program of excerpts from a wide variety of pieces by six different choreographers. The company announced in December that it would continue its online presentations through the rest of the season. The latest offering, available Friday through Tuesday features Peter Darrell’s “Othello,” Christopher Wheeldon’s “The American,” Sir Matthew Bourne’...

Last modified on Mon 21 Dec 2020 10.48 EST This year has been a test of creativity and nerve for the dance sector (and everybody else), with Christmas its crunch point. Most of the big ballet companies risked putting on a live Nutcracker show, only to have the plug pulled, devastatingly, just before or soon after opening night. Scottish Ballet decided to take a different route, creating an hour-long film that captures ballet’s festive twinkle and fairytale charm in screen-savvy manner. Dev...

‘NECESSITY”, as the old saying goes, “is the mother of invention.” The adage is proved abundantly and brilliantly true by Scottish Ballet’s hour-long movie The Secret Theatre. With the theatres closed down by the pandemic, our national ballet company decided to make its first-ever feature film. Thank goodness it did so. The movie is a beautifully-crafted and defiant assertion of the human need for artistic expression in dark and difficult times. Set in a grand, but empty, theatr...