The Sleeping Beauty holds a special place in The Royal Ballet’s repertory. It was the ballet with which the Company reopened the Royal Opera House in 1946 after World War II, its first production at its new home in Covent Garden. Margot Fonteyn danced the role of the beautiful Princess Aurora in the first performance, with Robert Helpmann as Prince Florimund. Sixty years later, in 2006, the original 1946 staging was revived by then Director of The Royal Ballet Monica Mason and Christopher Newton, returning Oliver Messel’s wonderful designs and glittering costumes to the stage.

George Balanchine's jewel-themed triptych, strikingly choreographed to the music of Faure, Stravinsk...

After the death of her mother, Sara moves to the South Side of Chicago to live with her father and g...

A ballet dancer moves and shifts in a space unknown.
Four outstanding works by world-renowned Czech dancer and choreographer Jiří Kylián performed for th...

A ballet dancer is late for an audition for a show inspired by Plato's Allegory of the Cave. She arr...

Christopher Wheeldon's acclaimed new Cinderella for the Dutch National Ballet is an imaginative inte...

When rebellious street dancer Andie West lands at the elite Maryland School of the Arts, she finds h...

A pair of short ballets, written for the screen, filmed and performed by artists of the Georgian SSR...

Ever since its triumphant premiere in 1960, Frederick Ashton's La Fille mal gardee has been treasure...

Going to see Nutcracker with the whole family has been a tradition in other countries for many years...

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up f...

The Merry Widow, a beguiling, romantic ballet starring Patricia McBride and Peter Martins.

This all-time ballet favourite, in which young Clara is swept into a fantasy adventure when one of h...

During a Christmas Eve party and a young girl, Clara, being given a nutcracker doll by her godfather...

Part folklore, part opera-ballet, this féerie presents local pagan traditions on the day of the summ...

Characters from Haitian folklore come to life telling their story of ritual, ceremony and celebratio...

Two young lovers, offspring of the feuding Montague and Capulet families, value feelings above the p...

The story of Don Quixote tells of the old knight who dreams of chivalry and his comic squire, Sancho...
Classic production of the world’s most-famous ballet, the one that dance audiences long for – Tchaik...

The Royal Ballet performs Tchaikovsky's classic ballet, choreographed by Liam Scarlett and starring ...