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	Birmingham Royal Ballet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) is one of the UK's foremost ballet companies, based at the Birmingham Hippodrome theatre in Birmingham, where it enjoys custom-buit facilities such as the Jerwood Centre for the Prevention and Treatment of Dance Injuries and the Patrick Centre, a studio theatre.
		It is known as the Vic-Wells Ballet as it performs both at Sadler's Wells Theatre and the Old Vic Theatre in London.
		The Sadler's Wells Ballet becomes The Royal Ballet and Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet becomes the Touring Company of The Royal Ballet.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Birmingham_Royal_Ballet (358 words)

	Guardian \| Birmingham Royal Ballet
		At the end of BRB's performance on Tuesday, one pigeon was clearly siding with the sceptics.
		Nao Sakuma as the Young Girl struggling to retain her boyfriend's heart might have begun by pitching her role on the wrong side of pert, but she's a natural Ashton dancer and as she makes her crude, frightened attempts to ape the seductive moves of her Gypsy Girl rival, her performance deepens detail by detail.
		BRB's women, despite being dressed in Karinska's ravishing costumes, are the least successful element in this - Asta Bazeviciute apart, their legs and feet just don't strike sparks from the air.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5049169-108884,00.html (336 words)

	Dance Magazine: Birmingham Royal Ballet. - Brief Article - Review - dance review
		BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, U.K. The photo in Birmingham Royal Ballet's program of the symbolic hand rising out of the lake, grasping not the legendary sword, but a Kalashnikov, immediately alerted balletgoers that this tale of King Arthur was not from the Lerner and Loewe sunny Camelot mold.
		When the ballet started, it was not a medieval court that appeared but a bunch of bundled refugees, burdened with suitcases and bags, who climbed over rubble and between scaffolding to escape the searchlights and the enemy.
		Bintley has chosen not to set his new ballet in the fifth century, since he links the extensive carnage and pillage of those medieval days with the two horrific world wars at the beginning of the last century, and the senseless slaughter and struggle for power and land that still goes on today.
	www.findarticles.com /cf_trvgnt/m1083/4_74/61426516/p1/article.jhtml (1036 words)

	Creative Partnerships \| 201202 - Birmingham Ballet
		Creative Partnerships latest project Magical Journeys – a collaboration between Birmingham Royal Ballet and a cluster of six Creative Partnership schools – is based on themes explored in Act Two of The Nutcracker ballet.
		Birmingham Royal Ballet is working with the schools for an 18-month period, and the Magical Journeys project kick-started this exciting collaboration.
		A Birmingham Royal Ballet dancer, a BRB Education Department animator and a professional storyteller visited the schools to deliver workshops based on The Nutcracker, developing stories, dance work and creative choreography with pupils and their teachers.
	www.creative-partnerships.com /news/pressreleases/8237 (521 words)

	Ballet-Dance Magazine - Interview - Lee Fisher - Birmingham Royal Ballet, Freefall
		You were part of a groundbreaking initiative that started in 1997 when a group of dancers from the Birmingham Royal Ballet joined the University of Birmingham in order to complete degree programmes in Dance in Education.
		It allowed ballet and my experience in the art form to be my secure base to work from and it has shown me, that with a little creativity and sensitive application ballet can be truly accessible.
		Ballet, basically, is very simple; it has that framework if you like, and I don’t think we compromise that at the company, we do it as it is; we do a ballet class.
	www.ballet-dance.com /200508/articles/LeeFisher200506.html (2212 words)

	icSolihull - Making magic at the Hippodrome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Birmingham Royal Ballet's master craftsman is discussing the finer points of the famous transformation in The Nutcracker where the room that has just held a Christmas Eve party magically changes as the clock strikes midnight.
		He has worked on The Nutcracker in each of its 13 seasons at Birmingham Hippodrome - and was deputy master craftsman in 1990 when the production was created by then BRB director Sir Peter Wright and designed by John Macfarlane.
		Birmingham Royal Ballet's production of The Nutcracker at the Birmingham Hippodrome runs from December 3-15.
	icsolihull.icnetwork.co.uk /lifestyle/cityliving/profile/tm_objectid=14948726&method=full&siteid=50002&headline=making-magic-at-the-hippodrome-name_page.html (1259 words)

	Ballet-Dance Magazine - Birmingham Royal Ballet - Birmingham Hippodrome, Birmingham
		The Birmingham Royal Ballet is celebrating the Ashton centenary earlier than Covent Garden and last weekend they performed a beautifully balanced double bill.
		I recommend seeing this ballet from above to fully appreciate the sculptural qualities of the tableaux and the beautiful final moments when the dancers lie down on the stage to form a giant curling serpent, reflecting the coils on the arms and torsos of the Children of Darkness.
		This ballet always “works”: it doesn’t matter much who is dancing or how well they are dancing (rather well, actually), the choreography is the star.
	www.ballet-dance.com /200407/articles/BRB20040612.html (790 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Features - Going out
		Following an eight-year absence, Birmingham Royal Ballet return to the capital this week with a blistering rendition of Carl Orff’s choral classic.
		Birmingham Royal Ballet, Edinburgh Festival Theatre, tonight until 29 June, tel: 0131-529 6000.
		Brian Allen conducts the Royal Scottish Academy Brass, and is joined by singers Lucy Taylor, Pat MacMahon, and pianists Jack Keaney and David Higham, in a programme that includes Wilson’s Pas de quoi and the song cycle The Willow Branches.
	news.scotsman.com /features.cfm?id=691492002 (678 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| Good luck blesses an unlikely pairing
		Birmingham Royal Ballet's misfiring opening to the Birmingham Hippodrome season, the Immortals bill, is wisely alternating with David Bintley's production of Giselle.
		Bintley, when he restaged the ballet in 1999, got it redesigned with some smart references to the experiences of today's well-travelled audiences.
		Cao, BRB's only true classical danseur, is usually handicapped by his immobile, anxious-looking face and total inability to act.
	www.portal.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/10/09/btgise09.xml (528 words)

	Birmingham Royal Ballet, York Theatre Royal, April 20 and 21 - This is York Archive - From the Evening Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Birmingham Royal Ballet, York Theatre Royal, April 20 and 21 - This is York Archive - From the Evening Press
		Next week, Birmingham Royal Ballet will dance at York Theatre Royal for the first time, in only three performances, one on Tuesday, two on Wednesday.
		Birmingham Royal Ballet, York Theatre Royal, April 20 and 21.
	archive.thisisyork.co.uk /2004/4/16/249086.html (498 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| England \| West Midlands \| Auction to foot ballet shoe bill
		About 400 costumes belonging to Birmingham Royal Ballet are going under the hammer at the city's Hippodrome theatre on Tuesday.
		Fans and patrons of the Ballet will also be given the opportunity to sponsor a dancer's shoes.
		Sian Pritchard, a spokeswoman for the Ballet, said: "Ballet shoes cost an average of about £45 each but the price can vary a lot, depending on where they are from and whether they are a traditional pointe shoe or a soft shoe.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/3828511.stm (345 words)

	Branson-Pointe Royale Condominium Rentals
		The 3-bedroom unit is a loft unit in amongst the trees along the lake, as shown to the left.
		Pointe Royale is also home for many Branson stars such as Andy Williams and the Lennon Sisters.
		Pointe Royale is located across the street from the famous "Welk Theater" and is just south of the famous Highway 76 Strip.
	www.pointroyalcondo.com (342 words)

	criticaldance.com: interview with David Bintley, Artistic Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet
		Bintley is the Artistic Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet and arguably the most successful ballet choreographer working in the UK today.
		Previously he was the resident choreographer at the Royal Ballet, but left feeling that he was not given enough support.
		It is intended as a memorial to Ashton, the Royal Ballet and classicism.
	www.criticaldance.com /interviews/1999/dbintley990600.html (931 words)

	The Birmingham Post (England) : Fitting tribute to a great lord of the dance; Birmingham Royal Ballet, moving home to ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Birmingham Post (England) : Fitting tribute to a great lord of the dance; Birmingham Royal Ballet, moving home to Birmingham Rep during the closure of the Hippodrome, launches a festival of Frederick Ashton ballets tonight.
		Fitting tribute to a great lord of the dance; Birmingham Royal Ballet, moving home to Birmingham Rep during the closure of the Hippodrome, launches a festival of Frederick Ashton ballets tonight.
		Read 'The Birmingham Post (England): Fitting tribute to a great lord of the dance; Birmingham Royal Ballet, moving home to Birmingham Rep during the closure of the Hippodrome, launches a festival of Frederick Ashton ballets tonight.
	static.highbeam.com /t/thebirminghampostengland/april052000/fittingtributetoagreatlordofthedancebirminghamroya/index.html (375 words)

	Romeo & Juliet @ The Lowry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		So, it's absolutely right for BRB to use their latest young stars in the title roles, and Chi Cao (Romeo) and Nao Sakuma are fully able to take them on.
		Choreographic inspiration is not even throughout the ballet, but there is wonderful stuff in act one, and each has a technique to die for.
		Birmingham Royal Ballet's Romeo and Juliet is at the Lowry, Salford Quays until Saturday, January 22.
	www.manchesteronline.co.uk /entertainment/theatreanddance/reviews/s/143/143375_romeo__juliet__the_lowry.html (449 words)

	BRB page from Ballet.co
		In David Bintley, and Peter Wright before, BRB have been blessed with two well-respected Artistic Directors who have given the company a firm identity and a clear future of their own, separate from the Royal Ballet in whose shadow they stood for too long - not so now.
		The Birmingham audience are fabulous, if noisy at times, and for those tired of the poshness of London and the Royal Opera House a trip to Birmingham is a real tonic.
		Of all the touring companies, BRB probably has the widest repertoire and this, coupled with a feeling of the dancers all mucking in together no matter what the piece, makes them a pleasure to see.
	www.ballet.co.uk /links/birmingham_royal_ballet.htm (322 words)

	Royal Ballet - John Percival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		I hope, too, that these ballets are not left in a ghetto for special occasions, but are retained (as in the days of founder Ninette de Valois) as part of a more balanced programming.
		But altogether I was left missing the passion which the ballet’s first Stuttgart cast gave it in 1976, when it really impressed me. Out of two Royal Ballet casts in the five leading parts this time, only Tamara Rojo looked to me truly convincing, second cast for the “Pie Jesu” solo.
		Bintley runs a good company, and many of his own ballets are fine, but his creative level is not consistent, and on this showing I’m not sure that there will necessarily be a celebration of his centenary in 2057.
	www.danceviewtimes.com /2004/autumn/08/brb.htm (1299 words)

	criticaldance.com: interview with Robert Parker, Principal Dancer, Birmingham Royal Ballet
		The Birmingham Royal Ballet fielded three casts for its five performances of David Bintley's Edward II in Hong Kong during the second week of March.
		This epic ballet involves so much actual story line and plot that there is no time to include all of it in one ballet, so this is why we have Part 1 and Part 2.
		In the Royal Ballet, I think there are so many more principals, the work is more evenly shared, and you are lucky to be doing one or two performances a week.
	www.criticaldance.com /interviews/2000/rparker000311.html (1469 words)

	Birmingham Royal Ballet Review from Ballet.co
		Jazz and David Bintley choreography are the cornerstones of the bill with which Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) opened its season on Wednesday night.
		If it hits home then you are in seventh heaven and if not then you are either not there at all or likely to go into a slough of despond at three similar visions of music, design and movement.
		Overall it's a pleasant night of good dancing and inspired modern design but next up for BRB is a mixed bill which I'm really looking forward to - variety being the spice of life 'n' all.
	www.ballet.co.uk /magazines/yr_04/nov04/bm_rev_brb_1004.htm (554 words)

	Birmingham Royal Ballet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A youngster, a stripper and gangsters galore mix things up in the Birmingham Royal Ballet's latest production, "Jazz Triple," the uniquely inventive ballet program that will be presented Tuesday through Oct. 7 at the Auditorium Theatre.
		The trio of ballets begins with "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue." Choreographed by the legendary George Balanchine, "Slaughter" is unique, fetching and sometimes controversial.
		The piece is accompanied by the company's live orchestra, the Royal Ballet Sinfonia.
	jaehakim.com /articles/stage/features/royal.htm (253 words)

	Birmingham Royal Ballet
		The most astonishing part is the force of the narrative, a force so captivating that it had the primly dressed people around me clapping like crazy and literally booing at the barons during the curtain call.
		For a born storyteller like Bintley, and especially for one coming from this tradition, the answer is simple: because it's a ripping good tale, and because ballet is potent.
		Wolfgang Stollwitzer (formerly of John Cranko's Stuttgart Ballet, he created the role of Edward II) and Robert Parker (as Gaveston) weren't going out of their way to emote - they didn't need to (although, throughout, both men could have been more deeply engaged with John McCabe's roiling music, conducted by Barry Wordsworth).
	www.danceinsider.com /f922_1.html (1758 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Birmingham Royal Ballet
		This happens with the corps too, when rogue discrepancies of line and rhythm are far more noticeable than they would be in a more crowded piece.
		Otherwise he stuffs every kind of robotic, classical, clownish move he can think of into the choreography, in a way that neither acknowledges the music's beauty, nor subverts it, but tags lazily along on its coat-tails.
		Given that Welch is a favourite choreographer of the Royal Ballet's director-elect Ross Stretton, one hopes this isn't typical of his work.
	www.guardian.co.uk /reviews/story/0,3604,448418,00.html (411 words)

	icBirmingham - Stage set for a council rescue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Some £350,000 has been loaned to the Birmingham Hippodrome to rescue the theatre from emergency cash flow difficulties and enable it to pay creditors.
		The theatre, which already owes the city £2.5 million and was given another £500,000 handout in the New Year, has been thrown a final lifeline by leaders of the council's ruling Conservative-Lib Dem coalition who are reluctant to see it collapse into administration.
		One avenue being explored is to rejig the schedule of the Birmingham Royal Ballet, whose performances play to full houses at the Hippodrome.
	icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk /0100news/mail/tm_objectid=14811882&method=full&siteid=50002&headline=stage-set-for-a-council-rescue-name_page.html (370 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guide \| Dance preview: Royal Ballet: Ondine \| First Nations Dance Company \| Birmingham Royal ...
		As Ashton's centenary season winds to a close, it's good to see the Royal giving another outing to his 1958 ballet Ondine.
		But flawed though it might be, the ballet is pure Ashton in its romanticism and vivid detail, and the title role remains a fascinating challenge for dancers, with Tamara Rojo dancing first cast on Tuesday and Alina Cojocaru debuting on Friday.
		This engaging work should be a lively companion to the final ballet, Kenneth MacMillan's ragtime romp Elite Syncopations.
	www.guardian.co.uk /theguide/dance/story/0,14698,1460741,00.html (412 words)

	BBC - Birmingham Stage - Beauty and the Beast
		The wonderful thing about this ballet is that you don't have to be a classical connoisseur to enjoy it.
		It is genuinely accessible to everyone and being able to see the expressions on the dancer's faces, the movements, hearing the thud of their feet on the stage, all added to the enjoyment of the story.
		Other scenes which stood out were Belle's spoilt sisters fighting over the rich man both wished to marry, the wedding scene with Granny making the audience laugh out loud with her slapstick moves.
	www.bbc.co.uk /birmingham/stage/2003/12/beauty.shtml (303 words)

	BBC - Birmingham Stage - Birmingham Royal Ballet - Swan Lake
		With enchanted landscapes and a moonlit lake, Birmingham Royal Ballet captures the essence of one of the greatest ballets of all time.
		Tchaikovsky’s magnificent score was not as powerfully played by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, under the rather staid conducting of Barry Wordsworth.
		The Corp de Ballet was in sparkling form although at times they lacked the ideal unity normally expected of Birmingham Royal Ballet.
	www.bbc.co.uk /birmingham/stage/2004/02/swanlake_review.shtml (240 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts reviews \| Birmingham Royal Ballet
		All three works are now being performed in one programme - which would probably be too much jazz for one night were it not for the superb theatricality of Towns' score.
		While there are lots of classic jazz moves in Orpheus (Iain Mackay as the hero does a particularly joyous jitterbug) Bintley can also explore more expressionist terrain, like the sullen broken-doll dance for the denizens of Hades.
		Given the collaborative spark of some sections it is disappointing that music and choreography fail each other in the most critical parts of the ballet - the Orpheus and Eurydice duets.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1323577,00.html (345 words)

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