Melissa Hamilton is Ireland's most illustrious ballerina, and she's bringing her brand-new show to Dublin. RTÉ Entertainment's John Byrne catches up with her as the final touches are being applied.
For nearly eight decades, London’s Royal Opera House in Covent Garden has been home to The Royal Ballet. Next month, this world-renowned ballet company will trade the glittering gold and red ...
Many remarkable performances fueled the Royal’s mini-festival of ballets by Frederick Ashton, the company’s founding choreographer. By Roslyn Sulcas Reporting from London Dance, people like to say, is ...
Dance of the Blessed Spirits (1978) was originally choreographed for Anthony Dowell to music by Christoph Willibald Gluck, and for this performance, Royal Ballet First Soloist Joseph Sissens joined ...
The full-length classical ballet, based on Ashton’s original choreography for the Royal Ballet spins into dance to tell the story of the Sylvia, the chaste devotee of the Goddess Diana who falls ...