A New Year comes in and with it yet more wonderful ballets to enjoy on screen.
As always it is best to check out the details with your local cinema / theatre.
I would like to recommend The Royal Ballet’s double bill of The Cellist, a new ballet by Cathy Marston, inspired by Jacqueline du Pré’s momentous life and career. It is coupled with a rare opportunity to see Jerome Robbins’s ballet, Dances at a Gathering.
This elegant and elegiac classic forms the second part of the programme. An exercise in pure dance for five couples, set to music by Chopin, it is a masterpiece of subtlety and invention. For those of you who came to my talk: Jerome Robbins: the man behind West Side Story, this will be a wonderful chance to see one of Robbins’s ballets.
Here is the full schedule of forthcoming ballets on screen:
Thu 16 Jan (1915) The Royal Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty
Mon 20 Jan (Times vary, please check) The Royal Ballet Encore: The Sleeping Beauty
Sun 26 Jan (1500) The Bolshoi Ballet: Giselle
Sun 23 Feb (1500) The Bolshoi Ballet: Swan Lake
Tue 25 Feb (1915) The Royal Ballet: The Cellist (Cathy Marston); Dances at a Gathering (Jerome Robbins)
Mon 2 Mar (Times vary, please check) The Royal Ballet: The Cellist (Cathy Marston); Dances at a Gathering (Jerome Robbins)
Sun 29 Mar (Times vary, please check) The Bolshoi Ballet: Romeo and Juliet (Recorded 2020)
Wed 1 Apr (1915) The Royal Ballet: Swan Lake
Mon 6 Apr (Times vary, please check) The Royal Ballet Encore: Swan Lake
Sun 19 Apr (1600) The Bolshoi Ballet: Jewels (Live 2020)
Thu 28 May (1915) The Royal Ballet: The Dante Project
Mon 1 June (Times vary, please check) The Royal Ballet Encore: The Dante Project
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