What makes a good dance score?
11 April 2017
Graceful Tchaikovsky, vivacious Stravinsky, angular minimalist music - or something else? We explore what makes the best music for ballet and beyond.
In the Night Dance Highlight: A stormy pas de deux
29 May 2015
In a striking departure from ballet tradition, choreographer Jerome Robbins depicts a couple in the midst of a blazing row.
Ballet Essentials: Afternoon of a Faun / In the Night / Song of the Earth
28 May 2015
Our quick guide to The Royal Ballet's mixed programme, featuring two acclaimed works by Jerome Robbins and Kenneth MacMillan's masterful study of loss.
A Meditation on Love: The troubled creation of Jerome Robbins’s In the Night
18 May 2015
Though a mature masterpiece, Robbins’s ballet had one of the most fraught geneses of any in work the repertory, pushing its choreographer to near-breaking point.