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...BRB’s dancers, performing to tunes that were hits before their mothers were born, were on cracking form....
...MSCHF’s BRB (Big Red Boot) gives you the feet of an Aardman animations character — and somewhere to store your golf clubs when it’s not raining....
...An odd piece of casting given that former BRB star Brandon Lawrence was in the line-up....
...The Bolshoi-trained Semionova was a one-woman masterclass for BRB’s swans. “It’s good. It inspires them. We all need to be inspired.”...
...John McFarlane’s sublime sets for BRB, gloriously refurbished after nearly £400,000 of donations, work the same magic but on a truly massive scale....
...Hayden Griffin’s sets and costumes for the act one village grape harvest are a loan from the Birmingham Royal Ballet Giselle and the act two forest glade belongs in BRB’s production of Frederick Ashton’s...
...The space-invading Spanish townhouses on casters would have been hopelessly impractical for BRB. The pop-art daisies that infested the Dryads scene are now gilded willows....
...‘Forgotten Land’ is part of the triple bill ‘Into the Music’, October 21-November 5 in Birmingham and London, brb.org.uk Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter...
...And not a pointe shoe in sight. ★★★☆☆ brb.org.uk...
...Birmingham Royal Ballet to October 30, brb.org.uk...
...Royal Albert Hall, December 28-31, brb.org.uk Matthew Bourne’s witty, enjoyable 1992 reworking of the Christmas favourite sets the first half in a grim Victorian orphanage and the second in a Technicolor...
...John Macfarlane’s sets have had to be trimmed to fit — the Rep’s stage is two metres slimmer than BRB’s Hippodrome home (which has been closed for the duration of the pandemic) — and both the corps and the...
...Royal Ballet ‘Nutcracker’ livestream 7pm December 22, roh.org.uk Birmingham Royal Ballet ‘Nutcracker’ livestream December 18, then on demand to December 24, brb.org.uk English National Ballet, December...
...Carlos Acosta, BRB’s director, has reworked the ending “for these crazy times . . . so this is a dance about life, about hope”....
...BRB veteran Marion Tait was deliciously deadpan as the queenly Mrs Hepworth....
...BRB has been dancing the piece since 2006 but it has never quite caught the accent, and the slides and lifts that embellish the traditional measures look clunky and effortful — “Up and down and over and...
.... ★★★☆☆ BRB at Sadler’s Wells with ‘Hobson’s Choice’ on June 28 and 29, brb.org.uk...
...BRB’s audiences might not mind too much (au contraire, one suspects), but funding bodies can be painfully fashion-conscious and dancers grow stale and fractious if trapped in a museum repertoire....
...Parts of it first appeared on her blog, bitches gotta eat, and it is written with the inflections of internet speak (“BRB, gotta go pee”)....
...The BRB liaison is simply two companies on the same programme but Ballet Black enjoyed a closer collaboration last year when they joined dancers from the Royal and Scottish Ballets in rarely performed early...
.... ★★★★★ Touring to Birmingham, Plymouth, Salford, London and Belfast from September, brb.org.uk...
...Beauty’s courtly manners and jewel-like classical solos can be quite a stretch for BRB’s dancers....
...Audiences adore it but after half an hour of whiskery frisking I start to yearn for a 12-bore . . . ★★★☆☆ brb.org.uk...
...Peter Wright’s 1990 production for BRB is famous for John Macfarlane’s magical Act One transformation in which Clara shrinks to the size of the toys beneath the tree....
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