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Voices of British Ballet Podcast

In each episode we invite someone from the world of dance to help introduce an edited conversation from our vast collection of interviews with people who have witnessed the history of dance in Britain.

We also host occasional special episodes focussing on key moments in ballet history.

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Decade

1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s

Ballets

Cléopâtre Promenade Apollo Doublework Spitfire Emergence Les Liaisons Dangereuses Le Carnaval Khadra Serenade Canta Highland Fling Betroffenheit Playground Alice in Wonderland Le Dieu bleu Midsummer Watch Les Noces Heaven Ablaze in his Breast Deadly Serious Wuthering Heights Asphodel Meadows The Triumph of Neptune Jeux Pineapple Poll Raymonda The Swan of Tuonela Town and Country Sylvia Isadora Capriol Suite Romola de Pulsky Adieu The Concert Onegin A Simple Man Double Concerto The Metamorphosis The Judas Tree Jardin aux lilas (Lilac Garden) Til Eulenspiegel The Prisoners Pierrot Lunaire A Christmas Carol Alice Electric Counterpoint Le Baiser de la Fée Dark Elegies La Pomme d'Or The Witch Boy Cruel Garden to a rock 'n' roll . . . song The Brontës The Snow Queen Woolf Works Lady into Fox Esmeralda The Snow Maiden Embrace Tiger and Return to Mountain The Amazing Adventures of Don Quixote Man Y Man Troy Game The Prospect Before Us The Fairy Doll Two Brothers Gloria Orange Dracula Uprising Pharoh's Daughter Bank La Fête étrange Les Petits Riens Poème tragique Requiem Because We Must The Hunchback of Notre Dame Chroma Le Train Bleu A Month in the Country Cell Scènes de ballet Danse sacrée et profane Monotones Rhapsody No Fire Escape In Hell Swansong Winter Dreams Enigma Variations The Firebird Nutcracker / Caisse Noisette Mods and Rockers ’63 Chéri New Puritans White Man Sleeps In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated Three Cornered Hat The Rite of Spring Soirée Musicale Agrionia Soda Lake The Fall ‘Still Life’ at the Penguin Café Elite Syncopations Pulcinella Plain Song False Dryads Gala Performance Tales of Hoffmann Ghost Dances Can We Talk About This Soldat Sea of Troubles Cotillon La Boutique fantasque La Bayadère Silver Birch Noir et blanc / Suite en blanc Pribaoutki Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men Flight Pattern Carmina Burana Le Pavillion d'Armide Assembly Ball Song of the Earth / Das Lied von der Erde L’Invitation au Voyage Strange Fish The Season's Canon Strictly Gershwin Agon Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato Anastasia An American in Paris L’Après-Midi d’un faune Aucassin and Nicolette Ballet Imperial Les Biches Birthday Offering Casse Noisette (The Nutcracker) Checkmate Cinderella Coppélia Dances at a Gathering Danses concertantes Dante Sonata Daphnis and Chloe Don Quixote The Dream Dream Ballerina The Dying Swan Emeralds Episodes Etudes Façade The Faun Fille mal gardée Giselle The Hard Nut Hiawatha Homage aux Belles Viennoises The Invitation Invitation to the Waltz Jackdaw and the Pigeons The Japanese Legend of the Rainbow Jewels Job Lady and the Fool Leaves of Fate Like Water for Chocolate Manon Marguerite and Armand Mars and Venus Mayerling Medea Midsummer Night’s Dream Miracle in the Gorbals La Muse S’Amuse Parade Les Patineurs Petrushka The Picnic Prince Igor Prince of the Pagodas The Princess The Rake's Progress Les Rendezvous Romeo and Juliet Schéhérazade The Sleeping Beauty / The Sleeping Princess Solitaire Sonatine Spectre de la Rose Strapless Swan Lake La Sylphide Les Sylphides Symphonic Variations Symphony Orchestra 21 The Syncopated Clock Thais A Tragedy of Fashion Le Tricorne Two Pigeons Valse Fantasie A Willow Grows Aslant a Brook The Winter’s Tale

Companies

Siobhan Davies Dance Harlequin Ballet Paris Opéra Ballet Random Dance Sydney Dance Company The Metropolitian Ballet American Ballet Caravan Northern Dance Theatre Yorke Dance Company Alexander Whitley Dance Company Ballets Russes Royal Danish Ballet Ballet Workshop Royal Ballet Choreographic Group Ballet British Colombia Ballet Rambert Birmingham Royal Ballet Royal Ballet New Group London City Ballet Ballet Frankfurt The Ballet Club Imperial Russian Ballet Scottish Ballet Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Ballet Black London Ballet RAD Production Club Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet Scottish Theatre Ballet Richard Alston Dance Company Hofesh Shecter Company Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Maryinsky Ballet Ballet der Lage Landen Northern Ballet Theatre Candoco Dance Company Original Ballet Russe Marie Rambert Dancers Stanislavsky Ballet Phoenix Dance Company Dance Theatre of Harlem Sadler's Wells Opera Ballet The Arts Theatre Ballet Balletmakers Limited Michael Clark Company Company of Elders Ballet de la Jeunesse Anglaise René Blum’s Ballets de Monte Carlo Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet Ballet Cymru Phoenix Dance Theatre Western Theatre Ballet Anglo Polish Ballet Ballets Trois Arts Ballet for All Royal Swedish Ballet The Duchy Ballet Stuttgart Ballet Pauline Grant Ballet New Russian Opera and Ballet London Dance Theatre Extemporary Dance Theatre Yorke Dance Project St James' Ballet Embassy Ballet Festival Ballet Alexander Roy London Ballet Theatre DV8 Physical Theatre Lewitzky Dance Company Ballet Jooss Jay Pomeroy Ballet Anglo-Russian Balle International Ballet Caravan Adventures in Motion Pictures New English Ballet Theatre London Contemporary Dance Theatre Allied Ballet Fortune Ballet Deutsche Oper Ballet Berlin Shobana Jeyasingh Dance theTALENT Second Stride Les Ballet Nègres Les Étoiles de la Danse New London Ballet National Youth Ballet of Great Britain BalletBoyz American Ballet Theatre The Arts Theatre Company Ballets de Champs-Elysees Ballet Guild Les Ballets des Paris Ballet Rambert / Rambert Dance Company / Rambert Bolshoi Ballet Boston Ballet Camargo Society English National Ballet ENSA International Ballet Joffrey Ballet Kirov Ballet Les Ballets Russes London Festival Ballet Mark Morris Dance Group The Markova-Dolin Ballet Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company National Ballet of Canada New York City Ballet Northern Ballet Old Vic Royal Ballet Royal Ballet Touring Company Sadler’s Wells Ballet San Francisco Ballet Silkroad Ensemble The Cambridge Festival Theatre Vic-Wells Ballet White Oak Dance Project

Training

The Bush Davies School / Pauline Bush School of Dancing National Centres for Advanced Training Rambert Ballet School Acdemy of Northern Ballet Elmhurst School Croydon College of Art Lydia Kyasht School Middlesex Polytechnic The Association of Operatic Dancing of Great Britain A Chance to Dance Nicolas Legat / The Legat School of Russian Ballet English National Ballet School Arts Educational Trust Sadler's Wells Ballet School The Gregory's School of Russian Ballet Imperial Ballet School Serafina Astafieva School Lila Field Academy for Children Abbey Theatre School of Ballet Vic-Wells Ballet School British Ballet Organization (BBO) The Bedells School Harehills Middle School Laban Centre / Trinity Laban London School of Contemporary Dance / London Contemporary Dance School Northern School of Contemporary Dance Academy of Choreographic Art Cecchetti Method Cone Ripman School Eurythmics Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing The Royal Academy of Dance The Royal Ballet School Sadler’s Wells School White Lodge