Great news for dance fans as the Bolshoi Ballet is bringing a host of events to Vue throughout this year.
Vue Plymouth will transform into a royal concert hall as music swells around the auditorium and every detail of the ballet is captured live and streamed on to the big screen. Performances starts on Sunday 19th May with Carmen Suite/Petrushka and continue with seven more live...
Hannah Llewellin, a student at Ivybridge Community College, is taking the next step towards her dream becoming a professional dancer, after being selected for Ballet West – one of the most successful dance training institutions in the world.
Based in Argyll, Scotland, Ballet West students leave with a BA (Honours) degree, and past students have gone on to perform or teach with...
Love at first dance, forbidden passions, dangerous secrets and star crossed fate combine in an exhilarating classic ballet. Kenneth MacMillan’s best-loved adaptation of this famous play continues Birmingham Royal ballet’s 2016 Shakespeare celebration. Set to Prokofiev’s soaring score, Romeo and Juilet tells the familiar tale of two young lovers at the mercy of powerful families and their own hearts. From the balcony scene’s estatic pas de deux to the lovers’ heart-breaking ends, Romeo and Juilet has been an audience favourite since its first performance.
What’s at the heart of a woman? Eccentric toymaker Dr Coppélius wants to know, and he’s planning to bring his mechanical doll, Coppélia, to life – he just needs the right spell.
When Dr Coppélius leaves Coppélia on his workshop balcony she’s soon causing quite a stir in the village. Particularly in the heart of redblooded young lover Franz, and the jealous mind of his real-life fiancée, Swanilda – who’s mistaken the mannequin for a crying, talking, sleeping, walking rival. With a wild mix of abracadabra, and some mischievous maidens, comic chaos is riotously unleashed when humans...
Three ballets spanning nearly a century of US creativity, from George Balanchine’s earliest American creation to one of the Company’s most recent commissions.
Serenade is a stunning piece of pure dance from master-choreographer George Balanchine, performed to the glorious music of Tchaikovsky. Wearing romantic costumes in shades of blue, dancers move elegantly on a bare stage, set against a midnight blue background. A milestone in the history of dance, Serenade is the first original ballet Balanchine created in America.
HIGH-FLYING STUDENTS SELECTED FOR SOUTH WEST’S TOP DANCE SCHOOL
Two Ivybridge students have been offered the opportunity of a lifetime after being selected for the Youth Dance Academy (YDA) – one of just nine UK ‘Centres for Advanced Training’ in dance.
Laura Martin (year 9) and John Speed (year 10), both students at Ivybridge Community College, were selected after undergoing...
Firmly crowned as a modern day classic, Matthew Bourne’s powerful, provocative and totally original interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake turned tradition upside down and took the dance world by storm, dazzling audiences in the West End and Broadway, and across Europe, Asia and Australia.
Boldly shattering the traditional concept of swans in tutus, and blending dance, humour and spectacle with extravagant award winning designs by Lez Brotherston and lighting by Rick Fisher, Matthew Bourne has created a passionate and contemporary Swan Lake for our time.
