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Ballet at its finest does something no other art form can match. It can articulate elusive emotions and ineffable relationships, making them...

I'm back from my travels and have hit the ground running - notably to the Barbican last night for a stunning concert by the Filarmonica ...

Xander Parish in Ballet 101 (photo from the Yorkshire Post) Maybe it's something in the Humber's water, but an inordinate numbe...

Federico Bonelli & Alessandra Ferri (photo: Tristram Kenton) The wonder of dance is that it makes the human body capable of express...

As the UK wakes up to the unexpected election result of an actual, if small, Tory majority, another majority of sorts - those of the artisti...

Melissa Hamilton & Matthew Golding in Manon. Photo: Alice Pennefather The ballerina Melissa Hamilton is to leave Covent Garden for...

The Mad Hatter's Tea Party: ZooNation in rehearsal Photo: David Sandison I spent an utterly enthralling and invigorating few hours ...

In today's Independent, my interview with the young choreographer Ludovic Ondiviela and Royal Ballet rising star Olivia Cowley about the...

The young Belfast-born ballerina Melissa Hamilton of the Royal Ballet is making her debut as Manon in a couple of weeks' time. I had a l...

Your Cinderella put on her ballet hat the other day and went to the ball. Well, a gala at Claridge's. The Royal Academy of Dance cele...

If I had to name a few of my favourite assignments EVER, this one would be right up there. I went to the Royal Ballet studios at the ROH ...

* Hungarian Dances yesterday at the St James Theatre Studio was a fabulous experience. A treat, a privilege and a joy to perform with amazi...

My interview with Gabriel Yared, composer of the new mingled orchestral and electronic score for Raven Girl , is up now on the Royal Opera...

So did you all go to the cinecast of the Royal Ballet's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland yesterday? It was such a full-on, energet...

It's been noted everywhere, since Natalia Osipova hit town the other day, that the Russian prima ballerina assoluta-in-the-making isn...

Tonight Kenneth MacMillan's last full-evening ballet, The Prince of the Pagodas , opens at Covent Garden after being missing for a gener...

And just as we were wondering if men in ballet are upwardly mobile... the Royal Ballet puts out a statement saying that Sergei Polunin has r...

Dodging our diligent builders who work on bank holidays, I turned on BBC Breakfast to see what the hurricane news was from the US, only to f...