WATCH: Birthday Offering Masterclass Part 1

News & Stories 26 Mar 2026

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Christopher Carr coaches BRB dancers in Frederick Ashton's Birthday Offering – a one-act ballet celebrating the birth of British ballet – in Part 1 of this masterclass from the Frederick Ashton Foundation. 

We are performing Birthday Offering as part of our 20th-Century Masterpieces triple bill on 19 and 20 June 2026.

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  1. The Green Table: rehearsal photo gallery

  2. The Green Table: 1990s archive photo gallery

  3. Introducing Theme and Variations by George Balanchine

  4. Introducing Birthday Offering by Frederick Ashton

  5. Introducing The Green Table

  6. BRB2: Le Spectre de la rose

  7. John Fontanini and Sophie Walters on the Les Sylphides pas de deux

  8. Sir Peter Wright Centenary: Swan Lake photo gallery

  9. Former BRB2 dancers on their time in the junior company

  10. WATCH: Mathias Dingman performs Basilio

  11. WATCH: BRB2 in rehearsal

  12. BRB awarded studio refurbishment grant by Arts Council England

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