Family favourites and fewer dates on the spring split tours mark straitened circumstances for Britain's busiest touring company, Birmingham Royal Ballet, keeping a smiling, child-friendly face on. Coppelia, La Fille mal gardée and the London premiere of the new Cinderella are the mainstays of the repertoire in the season marking BRB's 20th year in Birmingham, whence the former Sadler's Wells Ballet moved in 1990.
Viewings of Blanchine's amusing gangster ballet Slaughter on Tenth Avenue and BRB director David Bintley's ballet to Carl Orff's popular Carmina Burana are intercut with demanding classical excerpts from The Sleeping Beauty and MacMillan's lyrical Concerto.
Autumn-Winter 2010
22–25 Sep, Triple bill Pointes of view: Kenneth MacMillan's Concerto (music Shostakovich), John Cranko's The Lady and the Fool (music Verdi), Twyla Tharp's In the Upper Room (music Philip Glass), Birmingham Hippodrome
29 Sep–2 Oct, MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet (music Prokofiev), Birmingham Hippodrome
6-9 Oct, MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet (music Prokofiev), Sunderland Empire
12-16 Oct, MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet, Tues-Thur; Triple bill Pointes of view: MacMillan's Concerto (music Shostakovich), Balanchine's Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (music Richard Rodgers), Tharp's In the Upper Room (music Philip Glass), Fri-Sat, Sadler's Wells, London
19-23 Oct, Triple bill Pointes of view: MacMillan's Concerto (music Shostakovich), Balanchine's Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (music Richard Rodgers), Tharp's In the Upper Room (music Philip Glass), Tues-Wed, MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet, Thur-Sat, Theatre Royal Plymouth
24 Nov–12 Dec, WORLD PREMIERE of David Bintley's Cinderella (music Prokofiev, design John Macfarlane), Birmingham Hippodrome
24 Nov–12 Dec, WORLD PREMIERE of David Bintley's Cinderella (music Prokofiev, design John Macfarlane), Birmingham Hippodrome
Spring 2011
19-22 Jan, Bintley's Cinderella (music Prokofiev), The Lowry, Salford
25-29 Jan, Bintley's Cinderella (music Prokofiev), Theatre Royal, Plymouth
2-5 Mar, Frederick Ashton's La fille mal gardée (music Hérold/Lanchbery), Birmingham Hippodrome
29 Mar-2 Apr, Bintley's Cinderella (music Prokofiev), LONDON PREMIERE, London Coliseum
19-23 Apr, North-East Split Tour - 19-20 Apr, Durham Gala; 22-23 Apr, Theatre Royal, York: Balanchine's Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (music Rodgers) / pas de deux from MacMillan's Concerto (music Shostakovich), Petipa's The Sleeping Beauty (Tchaikovsky), Ashton's La Fille mal gardée (music Lanchbery/Hérold) / Petipa's Coppélia Act 2
19-23 Apr, South-West Split Tour - 19-20 Apr, Octagon Theatre, Yeovil; 22-23 Apr Hall for Cornwall, Truro: Bintley's Allegri Diversi (music Rossini) / pas de deux Ashton's The Dream (music Mendelssohn), Petipa's Coppélia (music Delibes), Petipa's The Sleeping Beauty (music Tchaikovsky) / excerpts Ashton's La Fille mal gardée (music Lanchbery/Hérold)
Summer 2011
15-18 June, Petipa/Cecchetti/Wright's Coppélia (music Délibes), Birmingham Hippodrome
22-25 June, Passion and Ecstasy: Bintley's Allegri diversi (music Rossini) and Carmina Burana (music Orff), Birmingham Hippodrome
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