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Erina Takahashi is bidding farewell as an ENB dancer in their delicate and poignant Giselle

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mary Skeaping’s Giselle: Dancers of English National Ballet, English National Ballet Philharmonic / Gavin Sutherland(conductor), London Coliseum, 15.1.2025. (JO’D)

Erina Takahashi (Giselle) and Francesco Gabriele Frola (Albrecht) in Mary Skeaping’s Giselle © Photography by ASH

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Sky Arts shows the constructive chaos behind English National Ballet’s work-in-progress new Nutcracker

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Backstage with English National Ballet (Sky Arts, series directed by Zoë Dobson) & English National Ballet’s Nutcracker (directed for TV by Peter Jones): English National Ballet, English National Ballet Philharmonic / Maria Seletskaja (conductor). Filmed at the London Coliseum and first broadcast on Sky Arts on 23.12.2024. (JPr)

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There will never be another! Relive Rudolf Nureyev’s virtuosic talent in his legendary Don Quixote film

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AustraliaAustralia The Australian Ballet in Rudolf Nureyev’s Film of Don Quixote: The Australian Ballet, The State Orchestra of Victoria (formerly The Elizabethan Trust Melbourne Orchestra) / John Lanchbery (conductor). Filmed in 1973, restored and remastered in 1999, and currently available on medici.tv. (JPr)

Gailene Stock and Caroline Rappell (Kitri’s girlfriends) and Rudolf Nureyev in Don Quixote

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ENB bring a colourful, modern twist to Nutcracker, though it is a rather flat experience

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom English National Ballet’s Nutcracker: English National Ballet, English National Ballet Philharmonic / Maria Seletskaja (conductor). London Coliseum, 12.12.2024. (JO’D)

Rhys Antoni Yeomans as the Nutcracker Doll in ENB’s Nutcracker © Johan Persson

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