Northern Ballet will open its autumn 2024 season with Three Short Ballets a triple-bill featuring two world premières and a Northern première. The trio of works will be performed in Leeds at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre from the 6-14 September and in London in early 2025.

Nowadays, it can often feel like everywhere you turn is doom and gloom, so it is wonderful to be able to write about something as positive and life-affirming as DanceSyndrome’s community showcase ‘Express ‘24’ at Blackburn Empire Theatre.

Northern Ballet is prolific when it comes to creating new ballets, and apart from the seasonal Nutcracker, the classics feature relatively infrequently: Giselle in 2011 and a characteristically different adaptation of Swan Lake in 2016. Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet is an iconic ballet, much loved and performed around the world.

There was a real buzz of excitement in the foyer of the Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre in Leeds as dozens of families arrived for the opening performance of Tortoise and the Hare.

Northern Ballet, under the guidance of their new artistic director Federico Bonelli, has announced a thrilling new season of works, reinforcing their aim of presenting "stories that connect with people of all ages and backgrounds".

Following a sell-out performance in June 2022, York Theatre Royal are once again welcoming Kyiv City Ballet back to York with a special visit to the city this month - including a one-off fundraising gala performance.

Joining the Company in the role of Gatsby for performances in Leeds and London is Principal of The Royal Ballet, Ryoichi Hirano. Hirano joined The Royal Ballet as a Prix de Lausanne apprentice in 2001, developing through the ranks of the company to Principal in 2016. He has also performed as Guest Principal for Norwegian National Ballet and Scottish Ballet.

It’s been a while since Rambert Dance was the ‘Ballet Rambert’ but, these days, this wonderful company, probably nearer in style to the Northern School of Contemporary dance than it’s ever been, couldn’t be better placed to deliver its mind blowingly good Peaky Blinders The Redemption of Thomas Shelby. Quite simply, tu tu good!

One of the most popular of full-length classical ballets, and technically the most demanding, Swan Lake, has been performed countless times by many world-famous companies and tonight’s performance by the Russian State Ballet of Siberia did not disappoint. It was breath taking.

Under the baton of Antony Hermus the Orchestra of Opera North has delivered an electrifying evening of Bernstein music at The Grand in Leeds. From the gloriously sad domestic drama of Trouble in Tahiti to the passion and relentless energy of the Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, the orchestra is, frankly, superb.

Northern Ballet announced that David Nixon OBE, its longest serving Artistic Director, will step down from his role in December 2021 after 20 hugely successful years of artistic leadership. Canadian-born David Nixon took up the post of Artistic Director of Northern Ballet in 2001.

Northern Ballet plans to return to touring for the first time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Leeds-based company, which has not been able to perform outside of its home city since November 2019, will hold a limited three venue tour to Salford, London and Leeds this June.