Tag Archives: Ballet

A Sleeping Beauty Tale

By Murk | Published: June 22, 2007
Last night we went to see The Northern Ballet’s ‘A Sleeping Beauty Tale‘, with music by Tchaikovsky. Obviously it was based upon the Sleeping Beauty fairytale. This is Tchaikovsky’s ballet re-imagined as a story of the people of the red and blue planets. There are spacecraft (I kid you not) and at one point, laser guns. I [...]
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The Three Musketeers

By Murk | Published: October 8, 2006
Last night we saw David Nixon’s production of ‘Three Musketeers‘ at Woking. It was produced by the Northern Ballet Company on tour. It was simply stunning. Given that it’s a touring company we were expecting the sets to be lacklustre, but they were top notch too. The dancing was wonderful, and the story had a bit of [...]
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Bolshoi

By Murk | Published: August 12, 2006
Today was a first, we went into Covent Garden to the Royal Opera House in order to see the ballet. Now, this wasn’t something that I got dragged to, it was my idea. I made a decision to try new things, even if I was a bit unsure. After all, how do we know if [...]
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