Marianela Núñez
Cinderella review – Royal Ballet fairytale is a shiny sugar-rush
Ashton’s three-act ballet combines escapism, clever classicism and panto, and this new version gets better as it goes along
Lyndsey Winship
28, Mar, 2023 @11:50 AM
Marianela Núñez: ‘What lockdown taught me, one more time, is that dance is my true passion’
The Royal Ballet’s phenomenal principal dancer was the fixed star at the heart of an extraordinary year for the company
Sarah Crompton
07, Dec, 2021 @1:00 PM
Royal Ballet: Beauty Mixed Programme review – rose petals and a lust for water
A wild variety of pas de deux fuel this mixed bill, from kitschy Strauss to a duet with a table, plus part of Sleeping Beauty
Lyndsey Winship
27, Jun, 2021 @4:29 PM
The Nutcracker review – a glimmer of pure Christmas joy
Despite fewer dancers and musicians, Peter Wright’s production is a gorgeous spectacle at Covent Garden
Lyndsey Winship
14, Dec, 2020 @1:47 PM
No standing still: the best of lockdown dance
From an elegant ode to San Francisco to Japanese hip-hop in a park, here’s how dancers are tackling our new normal
Lyndsey Winship
17, Aug, 2020 @9:30 AM
Marianela Núñez: ‘Ballet isn’t elitist – it’s our responsibility to make people get it’
The Royal Ballet principal on her changing roles, how she dances through difficult emotions, and being ‘a complete bunhead’
Sarah Crompton
19, Jan, 2020 @1:00 PM
Don Quixote; Since She review – Nuñez and Muntagirov dazzle
The two principals inspire a blazing revival of Carlos Acosta’s Don Quixote. And Dimitris Papaioannou pays loving homage to Pina Bausch
Sarah Crompton
24, Feb, 2019 @8:00 AM
Les Patineurs / Winter Dreams / The Concert review – festive cheer and tears at the Royal Ballet
A fine take on Chekhov’s melancholy Three Sisters brings bite to this seasonal triple bill, before ice skaters and lovers restore the yuletide glow
Lyndsey Winship
19, Dec, 2018 @2:44 PM
Top 10 dance shows of 2018
Romeo and Juliet muddled into middle age, Akram Khan suffered shell-shock, Rambert2 lost control – and William Forsythe gave ballet a stratospheric street shakeup
Judith Mackrell and Lyndsey Winship
17, Dec, 2018 @6:00 PM
La Bayadère review – moonlit heights from Nuñez and co
Visually intoxicating and beautifully danced – mostly – by the Royal Ballet, Petipa’s Indian romance remains problematic
Luke Jennings
11, Nov, 2018 @8:00 AM
La Bayadère review – Marianela Núñez dances with heart-rending beauty
The loose plotting of the love story is offset by performers who elevate the melodrama to mesmerising levels
Lyndsey Winship
02, Nov, 2018 @11:55 AM
Rambert: Life Is a Dream; Swan Lake – review
Kim Brandstrup conjures dreamlike precision for Rambert, while Royal Ballet’s brand new Swan Lake deserves to be a cherished work in progress
Luke Jennings
27, May, 2018 @7:00 AM
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