Ismene Brown

Better than Leslie Caron: Leanne Cope (Lise) and the company in ‘An American in Paris’

S’wonderful

1 January 2015 3:00 pm

A new year must start with hope and resolution, and if you’re very rich, with influence in the highest places,…

Sensual but not thrilling: Carlos Acosta as Basilio

No brainer

11 December 2014 3:00 pm

One feels the pang of impending failure whenever the Royal Ballet ventures like a deluded Don Quixote into a periodic…

Dance One last dance

4 December 2014 3:00 pm

I’m dashing between dance theatres at the moment and there’s just so much to tell you about. I could linger…

Autumn round-up

13 November 2014 3:00 pm

This has been an extraordinarily exciting fortnight, on and off stage. Premieres in anything from ice-skating to classical ballet, charismatic…

All was beauteous with the Royal Ballet’s ‘Symphonic Variations’ on the first night

Ballet’s battle royal

30 October 2014 3:00 pm

English ballet erupted out of the second world war in the hands of the rival choreographers Frederick Ashton and Robert…

Turning feral: Lord of the Flies

Boys alone

16 October 2014 2:00 pm

GCSE Eng Lit pupils are doing well from dance this season with two set books told in the medium of…

Tarts and Tchaikovsky

2 October 2014 1:00 pm

What can the Royal Opera House be insinuating about its target audience? No sooner had Anna Nicole closed than Manon…