Ballet at the movies: A poetic dance across the silver screen

Ahead of tonight's live relay of Kenneth MacMillan’s ‘Manon’ in selected cinema’s around the country, the Royal Ballet’s Director, Kevin O’Hare, reveals how he went from appearing in Bugsy Malone to leading Britain’s largest ballet company


Romeo and Juliet

Globalisation at its best: the Russian dancers of the Tchaikovsky Perm State Ballet excel in Scottish choreographer Kenneth MacMillan’s interpretation


The naked truth about dance

In Greek mythology, the gods were depicted nude to show their higher status, but these days little inflames indignation like the sight of the naked human body. For some artists, and dancers in particular, it’s an essential, everyday part of their work





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