ased at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, The Royal Ballet is one of the great ballet companies of the world. Led by Director Kevin O’Hare, the Company has a wide-ranging repertory that showcases the great 19th-century classics alongside heritage works including those of its two great 20th-century choreographers Frederick Ashton and Kenneth MacMillan. In addition, The Royal Ballet performs new works by Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor and Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon, two of the foremost international choreographers of today. The Royal Ballet continues to create and encourage new choreography and appointed Liam Scarlett as Artist in Residence in 2012.
Programming
Follow The Royal Ballet over the course of five hours: watch the Company warm up and rehearse upcoming productions, and go behind the scene with the Company members.
Company Class
Olga Evreinoff, Principal Guest Teacher
Rehearsal
The Dreamers Ever Leave You
Francesca Hayward, Yasmine Naghdi, Alexander Campbell and Ryoichi Hirano
Johannes Stepanek
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Fernando Montano and Beatriz Stix-Brunell
Christopher Saunders
The Royal Ballet School
Belinda Hatley
Jeux
Yasmine Naghdi, Isabella Gasparini, Vadim Muntagirov
Rosalyn Whitten
The Judas Tree
Lauren Cuthbertson, Thiago Soares, Edward Watson and Reece Clarke
Karl Burnett, Viviana Durante and Irek Mukhamedov
Elite Syncopations
Laura Morera, Yuhui Choe, Melissa Hamilton
Christopher Saunders and Monica Mason
The Wind
Francesca Hayward and Dancers of The Royal Ballet
Arthur Pita
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Dancers of The Royal Ballet
Christopher Saunders, Gary Avis and Sian Murphy
Special Guest Companies
Birmingham Royal Ballet
Dutch National Ballet
English National Ballet
Finnish National Ballet
La Scala Ballet Company
Northern Ballet
Norwegian National Opera & Ballet
Polish National Ballet
Scottish Ballet
Stuttgart Ballet
The Royal Danish Ballet
The Royal Swedish Ballet
Wiener Staatsballett