News and features

First time attenders

Click here for our beginners guide to ballet

David Bintley on the 2009-10 season

Click here for an interview with David Bintley, in which he discusses the importance of the new season.

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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.

Special guests take Dream rehearsal

Dame Antoinette Sibley and Sir Anthony Dowell coach the roles of Titania and Oberon in Ashton's The Dream - roles they created.

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The Two Pigeons rehearsal video

Principals Nao Sakuma and Robert Parker in studio rehearsals for this season's performances of The Two Pigeons.

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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.