About Dance Track Community: 20th-Century Masterpices Ticket Offer
20th-Century Masterpieces shows how ballet can thrill and delight through sheer artistry and brilliance, and yet it can explore dark and ever-with-us conversations about man’s inhumanity to man.
BRB’s founder choreographer, Sir Frederick Ashton, made Birthday Offering for the then Sadler’s Wells Ballet to celebrate their 25th anniversary in 1956 (the year they became The Royal Ballet), working with a dazzling cast of dancers that included Margot Fonteyn.
Image: Momoko Hirata in Theme and Variations. Photo © Johan Persson. Illustration © Beth Ingleton
The Green Table is considered Kurt Jooss’s masterwork – created in 1932 he foreshadows the ultimate futility of the peace negotiations of that decade and shows Death becoming the inevitable dance partner of each of the characters in turn.
George Balanchine’s joyous Theme and Variations drips with gilded grandeur, evoking in Balanchine’s own words the ‘great period in classical dancing when Russian ballet flourished with the aid of Tchaikovsky’s music’. Created in 1947, it is a glorious celebration in dance with which to round off the programme.
£15 Tickets for 20th-Century Masterpieces
We're delighted to offer specially discounted £15 tickets for the performances at Birmingham Hippodrome on 19 and 20 June. To book your tickets simply click below and select your preferred date and time, then proceed to purchase your tickets (max 4 per customer; first-come, first-served).
Thank you for booking. We will email you after ticket sales close with details about where to pick up your tickets.
If you have any questions please contact us at katehowells@brb.org.uk
Age advisory: 8+
Please note, children under the age of three cannot be admitted to Birmingham Hippodrome.
For this offer you cannot choose your seats, however if you'd like to sit near a friend who is also booking please let us know during checkout when prompted.