Edward Watson
Dancer Edward Watson: ‘Get the wind machine, get my clothes off and get out there’
The performer talks us through the photographers who documented his shapeshifting career with the Royal Ballet
Lyndsey Winship
21, Apr, 2023 @1:00 PM
Sex, drugs and pas de deux: how Mayerling’s flame keeps burning
As Kenneth MacMillan’s classic returns, his widow Deborah and Edward Watson – celebrated for dancing the lead role – reflect on preserving the spirit of this seamy beast of a ballet
David Jays
12, Oct, 2022 @8:31 AM
The Dante Project review – bold, beautiful and utterly engaging
Wayne McGregor, Thomas Adès and Tacita Dean’s dream-team Divine Comedy is a fitting farewell to its star, Edward Watson
Sarah Crompton
24, Oct, 2021 @8:00 AM
The Dante Project review – Wayne McGregor moves heaven, earth and hell
The Divine Comedy is brilliantly reimagined by McGregor with music by Thomas Adès, sets by Tacita Dean and a poetic send-off for Edward Watson
Lyndsey Winship
15, Oct, 2021 @12:51 PM
The Royal Ballet's Edward Watson: 'It’s not normal to do this to your body – but it is possible'
The dancer talks about his career at Covent Garden, exhilarating creations with Wayne McGregor and why he won’t retire quietly
Lyndsey Winship
07, Oct, 2020 @10:00 AM
Edward Watson to retire as Royal Ballet principal dancer
Watson, whose final performance in a new Wayne McGregor production has been postponed by Covid, will join the company’s team of coaches
Chris Wiegand
14, Aug, 2020 @2:21 PM
The Judas Tree review – genius marred by misogyny
Not even the Royal Ballet’s finest can make the brutal subject matter of the choreographer’s final work palatable
Luke Jennings
29, Oct, 2017 @8:00 AM
The Judas Tree/Song of the Earth review – from torrid violence to delicate majesty
A five-company tribute to Kenneth MacMillan continues with brave and brilliant stagings of two very different works
Judith Mackrell
25, Oct, 2017 @4:45 PM
'You leave part of yourself on stage': Royal Ballet dancers on Kenneth MacMillan
For Edward Watson they’re terrifying and exhilarating. Sarah Lamb struggles to return to reality after performing them. Twenty-five years after Macmillan’s death, his visceral works have made a mark on the whole company
Judith Mackrell
25, Sep, 2017 @10:10 AM
Mayerling review – sex, drugs and revolution in the Royal Ballet's superb staging
Edward Watson finds sympathy for the doomed prince while Sarah Lamb gives one of the performances of her career in MacMillan’s unsparingly brutal ballet
Judith Mackrell
01, May, 2017 @11:21 AM
Les Enfants Terribles review – dark sibling fantasy
Top-flight dancers, Javier de Frutos moves, Philip Glass score and Cocteau’s twisted tale don’t quite add up
Luke Jennings
05, Feb, 2017 @8:00 AM
Les Enfants Terribles review – Javier De Frutos teases out sex-games siblings' inner damage
With eight Royal Ballet dancers enacting the claustrophobic world of an incestuous couple, De Frutos weaves intricate physical poetry around Jean Cocteau’s text and Philip Glass’s limiting score
Judith Mackrell
29, Jan, 2017 @12:44 PM
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