News and features

First time attenders

Click here for our beginners guide to ballet

Back stage at Swan Lake

Click here to read in an interview with Wardrobe Assistant Joanna Shilton. In it, she discusses how she got her start in the arts, and talks about working on the classical masterpiece Swan Lake.

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News and features

Welcome to the News and Features section of the Birmingham Royal Ballet website. Click on the links in the highlighted boxes for new materials, or see the index on the left of the page for archived news stories, features, press releases and reviews of current repertory, where available.

First UK look at Aladdin!

This year's Evening of Music and Dance includes excerpts from David Bintley's production of Aladdin, created for the National Ballet of Japan and never before performed outside Japan! Click here for details.

2010-11 diary dates

Full details of Birmingham Royal Ballet's 2010-11 season will be published within the next month. Until then, click here for the dates of the Birmingham Hippodrome performances for your diary.

Ballet hoo!

Click here to find out all about Birmingham Royal Ballet's involvement in the Ballet Hoo! project, where a group of young people with little or no ballet experience trained to perform Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet.