Following its most successful season on record, when over 53,000 people came to see My First Ballet: Sleeping Beauty, the popular series returns in spring 2017 with an eight-week national tour of My First Ballet: Cinderella. The project is part of English National Ballet’s commitment to making ballet accessible to all, working in partnership with English National Ballet School. The My First Ballet series takes a popular ballet and uses a narrator to rework the production to suit a younger audience.
English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer competition will then return for its eighth year. The competition has grown in popularity over the years it has been programmed, and earlier this year Cesar Corrales was awarded both the Emerging Dancer and People’s Choice awards. The competition turns the spotlight on the younger talent within the company, and creates mentoring partnerships for the finalists with more experienced dancers in the company.
March 2017 sees English National Ballet become the second ballet company in the world – aside from Tanztheater Wuppertal – allowed to perform Pina Bausch’s Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring). Bausch’s The Rite of Spring is regarded as one of the choreographer's most revered works, forming part of a triple bill for English National Ballet. It will also include another work new to English National Ballet’s repertoire, Adagio Hammerklavier choreographed by Hans van Manen. William Forsythe’s In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated completes the programme, first performed by the Company in 2015.
Summer 2017 will see English National Ballet return to Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall for the first time since 2008, when it will present Rudolf Nureyev’s Romeo & Juliet next year in August. Originally created by Nureyev in 1977 to celebrate the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, English National Ballet recently performed it on its national tour to critical acclaim.
English National Ballet’s Spring/Summer season
Following its most successful season on record, when over 53,000 people came to see My First Ballet: Sleeping Beauty, the popular series returns in spring 2017 with an eight-week national tour of My First Ballet: Cinderella. The project is part of English National Ballet’s commitment to making ballet accessible to all, working in partnership with English National Ballet School. The My First Ballet series takes a popular ballet and uses a narrator to rework the production to suit a younger audience.
English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer competition will then return for its eighth year. The competition has grown in popularity over the years it has been programmed, and earlier this year Cesar Corrales was awarded both the Emerging Dancer and People’s Choice awards. The competition turns the spotlight on the younger talent within the company, and creates mentoring partnerships for the finalists with more experienced dancers in the company.
March 2017 sees English National Ballet become the second ballet company in the world – aside from Tanztheater Wuppertal – allowed to perform Pina Bausch’s Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring). Bausch’s The Rite of Spring is regarded as one of the choreographer's most revered works, forming part of a triple bill for English National Ballet. It will also include another work new to English National Ballet’s repertoire, Adagio Hammerklavier choreographed by Hans van Manen. William Forsythe’s In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated completes the programme, first performed by the Company in 2015.
Summer 2017 will see English National Ballet return to Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall for the first time since 2008, when it will present Rudolf Nureyev’s Romeo & Juliet next year in August. Originally created by Nureyev in 1977 to celebrate the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, English National Ballet recently performed it on its national tour to critical acclaim.