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Joan Seaman gives us a wonderful bird’s eye view of VE Day, which she spent seeing Sadler’s Wells Ballet stars Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann dance Coppélia, and her interview is...

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Miracle in the Gorbals is a dramatic one-act ballet, choreographed in 1944 by Robert Helpmann to music by Arthur Bliss and designs by Edward Burra. It was first performed at Sadler’s Wells in...

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Following Peter Wright’s retirement, David Bintley was appointed artistic director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, a position he held until 2019. Under his leadership, as well as dancing works by...

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