Here are the interviews, articles and programme notes I’ve had published so far. For a list of my published reviews, please see the About page.
Interviews
Carolyn Rose Ramsay – Artistic Director of Ballet d’Jèrri (Dance International). Click here for the full article
Helen Pickett & James Bonas – Choreographer and Director respectively of National Ballet of Canada’s Emma Bovary (Dance Europe – Oct/Nov 23)
Yayoi Wakayagi – Nihon buyo dancer and teacher, based in Kyoto, Japan (Dance Europe – Aug / Sep 23)
Tiler Peck – Principal dancer with New York City Ballet (Dance Europe – February / March 2023)
Jacob Michael Warren – Creative Director with Pilobolus, interviewed about the company’s performances in Dhahran (Dance Europe – Oct / Nov 22)
Casey Howes – Dancer with Pilobolus, interviewed about the company’s performances in Dhahran (Dance Europe – Oct / Nov 22)
Cesar Corrales – Principal with The Royal Ballet, interviewed for ‘Nureyev Gala: Anticipating an occasion to remember’ article (Dance International – click here to read full article)
Nehemiah Kish – former Principal with The Royal Ballet, interviewed for ‘Nureyev Gala: Anticipating an occasion to remember’ article (Dance International – click here to read full article)
Amelia Thompson – Artist with Birmingham Royal Ballet, interviewed for ‘Life in the Corps’ article (Dance Europe – June / July 2022)
Yuko Masuda – First Artist with National Ballet of Japan, interviewed for ‘Life in the Corps’ article (Dance Europe – June / July 2022)
Christopher Kunzelmann – Corps de ballet member with Stuttgart Ballet, interviewed for ‘Life in the Corps’ article (Dance Europe – June / July 2022)
Darcey Bussell (Dance Europe – February / March 2022)
Agnes Su – Principal dancer with Stuttgart Ballet (Dance Europe – February / March 2022)
Garry Trinder – Director of New Zealand School of Dance (Dance Europe – February / March 2022)
Dahlia Douglas – Dancer with Company of Elders (Dance International). Click here to read full article
Evan Loudon – Principal dancer with Scottish Ballet (Dance Europe – December 21 / January 22)
Beatriz Stix-Brunell – First Soloist with The Royal Ballet (Dance Europe – October / November 2021)
Gregory Maqoma / Omar Rajeh / Alice Ripoll / Janice Parker – Choreographers involved in Edinburgh International Festival 2021’s Dancing in the Streets project (Dance Europe – August / September 2021)
Celine Gittens – Principal Dancer with Birmingham Royal Ballet (Dance Europe – August / September 2021)
Hofesh Shechter – Choreographer and Director of the Hofesh Shechter Company (Dance Europe – June / July 2021)
Yuan Yuan Tan – Principal Dancer with San Francisco Ballet (Dance Europe – June / July 2021)
Charlotte Edmonds & Elizabeth Arifien – Founders of Move beyond Words, an organisation that helps dancers with dyslexia (Dance International) Click here to read the full article
Miyako Yoshida – Artistic Director of The National Ballet of Japan (Dance Europe – February / March 2021)
Yukari Saito – Artistic Director of The Tokyo Ballet (Dance Europe – February / March 2021)
Maia Makhateli – Principal Dancer with Dutch National Ballet (Dance Europe – December 2020 / January 2021)
Patricia Barker – Artistic Director of Royal New Zealand Ballet (Dance Europe – October/November 2020)
Carlos Acosta – Artistic Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet (Dance International). Click here to read the full interview.
George Liang – Dancer with Northern Ballet (Dance Europe – August/September 2020)
Lez Brotherston, Michael Hulls, Jacob O’Connell and May Howard-Shigeno for Living on the Edge, an article about life as a freelancer under Covid-19 (Dance Europe – August/September 2020)
Andrew McNicol – Choreographer and director of the McNicol Ballet Collective (Dance Europe – April 2020)
Justin Peck – Choreographer and ex-dancer of New York City Ballet (Dance Europe – March 2020)
Mark Bruce – Choreographer and director of the Mark Bruce Company (Dance Europe – February 2020)
Bradley Charles – ZooNation Youth Company director Bradley Charles (for an article about the Royal Opera House’s Next Generation Festival (Royal Opera House Magazine Spring 2020)
Tamara Rojo – Artistic Director of English National Ballet (Dance Europe – January 2020)
Adam Cooper – Freelance Dancer, Choreographer, Director et al (Dance Europe – December 2019)
Kevin O’Hare and Emma Southworth – Artistic Director of The Royal Ballet and The Royal Ballet’s Creative Producer respectively, talking about two different versions of The Sleeping Beauty – Marius Petipa’s and Helene Blackburn’s – for the programme notes of Le Ballet de L’Opera National du Rhin’s Les beaux dormants (The Sleeping Beauties). Performed at the Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, first night 21 November 2019
Benoit Swan Pouffer – Artistic Director of Rambert (Dance International – Winter 2019, the magazine’s last ever printed edition, although the website danceinternational.org will keep going)
Minju Kang – First Soloist with Northern Ballet (Dance Europe – November 2019)
Etta Murfitt – Freelance choreographer (Dance Europe – October 2019)
Ingrid Lorentzen – Artistic Director of Norwegian National Ballet (Dance Europe – August/September 2019)
Daniel Squire (Merce Cunningham stager and ex-Cunningham dancer) and Sophie Martin (Principal Dancer with Scottish Ballet) – Talking about Night of 100 Solos, part of the Merce Cunningham Centenary Celebrations (Dance International – Fall 2019)
Arthur Pita – Freelance choreographer (Dance Europe – June 2019)
Hélène Blackburn – Artistic Director of Cas Public. Talking about her full-length piece 9 for the programme notes of the work’s performances at the Linbury Theatre at the Royal Opera House.
Tao Ye – Artistic Director of TAO Dance Theater (Dance Europe – May 2019)
Alan Lucien Oyen – Freelance choreographer. Talking about his career and on being the joint-first choreographer to create a full-length work for Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch after Bausch’s death (Dance Europe – April 2019)
Herman Cornejo – Principal dancer of American Ballet Theater (Dance Europe – February 2019)
Germaine Acogny – dancer and choreographer (Dance Europe – February 2019). Click here to read the full article.
Dame Monica Mason (former Director of The Royal Ballet) and Laura Morera (Royal Ballet Principal dancer) – talking about Liam Scarlett’s Asphodel Meadows (for The Royal Ballet’s programme notes for Asphodel Meadows’ second revival, first printed 18 February 2019)
Ben Duke – Choreographer and Director of Lost Dog (for The Course of True Love, an article about Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet and Lost Dog’s Juliet & Romeo, for The Royal Opera House magazine, Spring 2019)
Alastair Marriott – Choreographer (for The Royal Ballet’s The Unknown Soldier programme notes, premiered at Covent Garden on 20 November 2018)
Ted Brandsen (Director of Dutch National Ballet) & Ernst Meisner (Artistic Director of Dutch National Ballet Junior Company) – talking about DNB’s new Choreographic Academy (Dance Europe – December 2018)
Bonnie Langford – Dancer/singer/actor currently performing as Dorothy Brock in the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane’s production of 42nd Street. Previous performance credits include Rumpelteaser in the original cast of Cats, Mel Bush in Doctor Who and Carmel Kazemi in EastEnders (Dance Europe – October 2018)
Charlotte Edmonds – Royal Ballet Young Choreographer (Dance International – Fall 2018). To read the whole article click here.
Royal Ballet principals Matthew Ball, Alexander Campbell, Lauren Cuthbertson, Ryoichi Hirano, Laura Morera, Vadim Muntagirov, Yasmine Naghdi and Akane Takada; Royal Ballet Soloist Calvin Richardson; Royal Ballet First Artist Joseph Sissens; Royal Ballet Ballet Master Ricardo Cervera. All for the programme notes for Dance Tours Productions’ A Night of Royal Elegance 2018
Houston Thomas – Second Soloist, Semperoper Ballett (Dance Europe – August/September 2018)
Lin Hwai-min – Founder, Director and Choreographer of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan (Dance Europe – July 2018)
Stina Quagebeur – Choreographer and First Artist with English National Ballet (Dance Europe – May 2018)
Steven McRae and Akane Takada – Principal dancers with The Royal Ballet for Mayerling: Method in Madness (Royal Opera House magazine, Autumn 2018)
Marcelino Sambé – First Soloist, The Royal Ballet (Dance International – Spring 2018), To read the whole interview, click here
George Williamson – Freelance choreographer, talking about working on Birmingham Royal Ballet’s new Ballet Now project (Dance Europe – March 2018)
Laurretta Summerscales & Yonah Acosta – Principal dancers with Bayerisches Staatsballett (Dance Europe – January 2018)
Precious Adams – First Artist, English National Ballet (Dance Europe – December 2017)
Robert Binet – Choreographic Associate of The National Ballet of Canada (for The National Ballet of Canada/The Royal Ballet’s The Dreamers Ever Leave You programme notes, 12 October 2017)
Peter Åberg – Juggler and Hand-to-Hand Acrobat with Cirkus Cirkör (Dance Europe – October 2017)
Nancy Osbaldeston – Principal dancer with Royal Ballet Flanders (Dance Europe – August/September 2017)
Bethany Kingsley-Garner – Principal dancer with Scottish Ballet (Dance Europe – July 2017)
Liam Scarlett – Choreographer/Royal Ballet Artist in Residence (for The Royal Ballet’s Symphonic Dances programme notes, 18 May 2017)
Celine Gittens – Principal dancer with Birmingham Royal Ballet (Dance International – Spring 2017)
Rina Kanehara – corps dancer with English National Ballet (Dance Europe – April 2017) You can read an edited version of the interview here – in Japanese only.
Ludovic Ondiviela – Choreographer (Dance Europe – March 2017)
Javier De Frutos – Choreographer/Director (for The Royal Ballet’s Les Enfants Terribles programme notes, 27 January 2017 – an abridged version is available on the Royal Opera House website)
Brandon Lawrence – Soloist with Birmingham Royal Ballet (Dance Europe – January 2017)
Didy Veldman – Choreographer & Company Director (Dance Europe – November 2016)
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa – Choreographer (Dance Europe – August/September 2016)
Emio Greco & Pieter C. Scholten – Directors of Ballet National de Marseille (Dance Europe – July 2016)
Daniel Proietto – Guest Artist and Choreographer with Norwegian National Ballet (Dance Europe – June 2016)
Eric Underwood: In Conversation – Soloist with The Royal Ballet (Dance International – Summer 2016) The full interview is available to read on the Dance International website
Dominique Mercy & Scott Jennings – dancers with Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch (Dance Europe – June 2015)
Francesco Ventriglia – Artistic Director, Royal New Zealand Ballet (Dance Europe – February 2015)
Aki Saito & Wim Vanlessen – Principal dancers with Royal Ballet Flanders (Dance Europe – November 2014)
Medhi Walerski – dancer with Nederlands Dance Theater (Dance Europe – August/September 2014)
Alastair Marriott – Choreographer (for The Royal Ballet’s Connectome programme notes, 31 May 2014)
Es Devlin – Designer (for The Royal Ballet’s Connectome programme notes, 31 May 2014)
April Ball – dancer with les Ballets de Monte-Carlo (Dance Europe – May 2014)
Sofia Menteguiaga – Principal dancer with Royal Ballet Flanders (Dance Europe – April 2014)
Ingrid Lorentzen – Artistic Director of Norwegian National Ballet (Dance International – Winter 2013)
Carlos Acosta – Choreographer (for The Royal Ballet’s Don Quixote programme notes, 30 September 2013)
Tim Hatley – Designer (for The Royal Ballet’s Don Quixote programme notes, 30 September 2013)
Martin Yates – Orchestrator and Conductor (for The Royal Ballet’s Don Quixote programme notes, 30 September 2013)
Mikko Nissinen – Artistic Director, Boston Ballet (Dance Europe – May 2013)
Wayne McGregor – Choreographer (for The Royal Ballet’s Raven Girl programme notes, 24 May 2013)
Audrey Niffenegger – Author (for The Royal Ballet’s Raven Girl programme notes, 24 May 2013)
Gabriel Yared – Composer (for The Royal Ballet’s Raven Girl programme notes, 24 May 2013)
Assis Carreiro – Artistic Director, Royal Ballet Flanders (Dance Europe – April 2013)
Christopher Wheeldon – Choreographer (for The Royal Ballet’s Aeternum programme notes, 22 February 2013)
Alexei Ratmansky – Choreographer (for The Royal Ballet’s 24 Preludes programme notes, 22 February 2013)
Cassa Pancho – Director of Ballet Black, for an article about the Company (Dance International – Autumn 2012)
Tamara Rojo – Principal dancer with The Royal Ballet (Royal Ballet Yearbook 2012-2013)
Kim Brandstrup, Alastair Marriott, Wayne McGregor, Liam Scarlett, Will Tuckett, Jonathan Watkins, Christopher Wheeldon – Choreographers (for The Royal Ballet’s Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 programme notes, 14 July 2012)
Chris Ofili, Conrad Shawcross, Mark Wallinger – Artists/Designers (for The Royal Ballet’s Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 programme notes, 14 July 2012)
Jonathan Dove, Nico Muhly, Mark-Anthony Turnage – Composers (for The Royal Ballet’s Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 programme notes, 14 July 2012)
Lucy Carter – Lighting Designer (for The Royal Ballet’s Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 programme notes, 14 July 2012)
Dame Monica Mason – Artistic Director, The Royal Ballet (Dance International – Summer 2012)
Matthias Burkert, Barbara Kaufmann, Dominique Mercy, Robert Sturm and Fernando Suels Mendoza – dancers with Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. For an article about the company’s ‘World Cities’ performances in London (Dance International – Spring 2012)
Peter Pabst – set designer for Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. For an article about the company’s ‘World Cities’ performances in London (Dance International – Spring 2012)
Xander Parish – Principal dancer with the Mariinsky Ballet, for an article about the musical and dance company Sisters Grimm (Dance International – Winter 2011)
Pietra Mello-Pittman and Ella Spira – founders of musical and dance company Sisters Grimm, for an article about the company (Dance International – Winter 2011)
Articles
Fumi Kaneko – Portrait of The Royal Ballet Principal dancer (Dance Europe – Apr/May 24)
Learning to Play the kotsuzumi with a Noh Musician – article about a Noh drumming workshop in Kyoto, Japan. Written for Cambridge University’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology website. Click here to read the full piece.
Ballet d’Jèrri: New steps on the island of Jersey – article about the formation of a professional dance company on the Channel island of Jersey. Includes an interview with the company’s director, Carolyn Rose Ramsay (Dance International). Click here for the full article
Talkback – Asking for ballet dancers to be allowed to do what they are trained to do. Opinion piece questioning why so many ballet performances are, in fact, contemporary dance (Dance Europe – Oct/Nov 23)
Friends – article about the options available to join various companies’ Friends membership schemes (Dance Europe – Oct / Nov 22)
Nureyev Gala: Anticipating an occasion to remember – article about the Nureyev: Legend and Legacy gala held in London’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Includes interviews with Cesar Corrales (Principal dancer with The Royal Ballet) and Nehemiah Kish (artistic director of the gala and former Principal of The Royal Ballet). Published 1 September 2022. Click here to read the full article.
Life in the Corps – article about dancers’ experiences working in the corps de ballet. Features interviews with Amelia Thompson (Birmingham Royal Ballet), Yuko Masuda (National Ballet of Japan) and Christopher Kunzelmann (Stuttgart Ballet). (Dance Europe – June / July 2022)
Company of Elders: A tonic for body and soul – article about the Company of Elders, including an interview with company dancer Dahlia Douglas (Dance International). Click here to read full article
Dancing in the Streets – Article interviewing the four choreographers participating in Edinburgh International Festival 2021’s Dancing in the Streets project (Dance Europe – August / September 2021)
Move Beyond Words: Helping dancers with dyslexia to thrive – article featuring interviews with Move Beyond Words founders Charlotte Edmonds & Elizabeth Arifien – founders of Move beyond Words (Dance International). Click here to read the full article
Leading Birmingham Royal Ballet through these pandemic times – article featuring an interview with the company’s artistic director Carlos Acosta (Dance International). Click here to read the full article.
Living on the Edge – an article about life as a freelancer under Covid-19. Featuring interviews with: Lez Brotherston, Michael Hulls, Jacob O’Connell and May Howard-Shigeno (Dance Europe – August/September 2020)
No Boundaries – article about the Royal Opera House’s Next Generation Festival. Includes interviews with ZooNation Youth Company director Bradley Charles and Creative Producer for The Royal Ballet, Emma Southworth. (Royal Opera House Magazine Spring 2020)
Benoit Swan Pouffer – article about the Rambert Artistic Director’s career and first year in charge of the company. Includes an interview with the man himself (Dance International Winter 2019)
Night of 100 Solos – Celebrating the spirit of Merce Cunningham – article about the Merce Cunningham centenary celebrations at the Barbican Centre in London, featuring interviews with Daniel Squire (the show’s director and an ex-Cunningham dancer) and Scottish Ballet Principal Sophie Martin,who performed in the show (Dance International – Fall 2019)
Germaine Acogny – article about the Senegalese dancer’s life and new collaboration with the Pina Bausch Foundation (Dance Europe – February 2019). Click here to read the full article.
The Royal Ballet/Lost Dog – The Course of True Love – article about Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet and Lost Dog’s Juliet & Romeo. Includes an interview with Lost Dog choreographer and director Ben Duke (Royal Opera House Magazine, Spring 2019)
Wayne McGregor – dance@thegrange – article about Wayne McGregor’s first season as director of dance for the new dance@thegrange festival in Hampshire, England. Includes an interview with Royal Ballet Young Choreographer Charlotte Edmonds (Dance International – Fall 2018). To read the whole article click here.
The Royal Ballet – Mayerling: Method in Madness – article discussing the challenges and rewards of dancing Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling. Includes interviews with Royal Ballet principal dancers Steven McRae and Akane Takada (Royal Opera House Magazine, Autumn 2018)
New Zealand School of Dance – article marking the school’s 50th anniversary, including an interview with the director, Garry Trinder (Dance Europe – February 2018)
Greek National Opera Ballet – article about the opening of the new Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens (Dance Europe – May 2017)
Havana International Ballet Festival 2016 – various shows and venues in Havana, Cuba (Dance Europe – January 2017)
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan – article including interviews with Lin Hwai-min, Lee Ching-chun, Cheng Tsung-lung, Chou Chang-ning and Luo Sih-wei (Dance Europe – May 2016)
Greek National Opera Ballet – profile on the Company (Dance Europe – February 2016)
BBC Young Dancer – article featuring interviews with Jan Younghusband (BBC Head of Comissioning for Music and Events), Sharon Watson (artistic director of Phoenix Dance Theater) and Kenneth Tharp (Chief Executive of The Place, London) (Dance International – Summer 2015)
Behind the Proscenium: Ballet Stage Management – article for The Royal Ballet Yearbook 2014-2015 detailing the working lives of The Royal Ballet’s Stage Management team.
Monday Moves: Freedom in a World Full of Risk – article about Monday Moves, a weekly dance class run by The Royal Ballet for blind and partially sighted adults. Includes includes interviews with participants, teachers and the RNIB. Appeared in all Royal Opera House programmes (Ballet and Opera) between 10 April 2014 and the end of the 2013/2014 season.
Thinking Beyond the Body – report on the Beyond the Body conference at the Birmingham Hippodrome for the Spring 2014 edition of Dance UK’s quarterly magazine
At the Edge of a Fjord: Ingrid Lorentzen and Norwegian National Ballet – Article including an interview with Ingrid Lorentzen (Artistic Director of Norwegian National Ballet). (Dance International – Winter 2013)
The Bolshoi in London – Special report on the Bolshoi’s 2013 tour of London and a summary of events that followed the acid-attack on the Company’s artistic director Sergei Filin. (Dance International – Winter 2013)
The Art of Collaboration: Wayne McGregor’s Raven Girl – Article including interviews with Wayne McGregor, Audrey Niffenegger (author of The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry) and Gabriel Yared (composer of the film soundtracks for The English Patient, Betty Blue and The Lives of Others). (Dance International – Fall 2013)
The corps de ballet – article for the Royal Ballet Yearbook 2013-2014 (including interviews with Royal Ballet dancers Laura Morera, Samantha Raine, Erico Montes, Annette Buvoli and David Donnelly)
New English Ballet Theatre – Article, including interviews with Karen Pilkington-Miksa and Andrew McNicol (Dance International – Spring 2013)
Ballet Black – Article, including interview with Cassa Pancho (Dance International – Autumn 2012)
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – Article, including interviews with Matthias Burkert, Barbara Kaufmann, Dominique Mercy, Peter Pabst, Robert Sturm and Fernando Suels Mendoza (Dance International – Spring 2012)
Sisters Grimm – Article with interviews (Dance International – Winter 2011)
Programme Notes
Le Ballet de L’Opera National du Rhin – Les beaux dormants (The Sleeping Beauties) – including an interview with Kevin O’Hare and Emma Southworth (Artistic Director of The Royal Ballet and The Royal Ballet’s Creative Producer respectively) for the work’s performances at the Linbury Theatre at the Royal Opera House in London. Opened 21 November 2019
The Royal Ballet – Don Quixote – Translation into Japanese of original 2013 article for the programme of The Royal Ballet’s tour of Japan 2019. Opened 21 June 2019
Cas Public – 9 – including an interview with company Artistic Director and choreographer Hélène Blackburn for the work’s performances at the Linbury Theatre at the Royal Opera House in London. Opened 24 May 2019
The Royal Ballet – Asphodel Meadows – A new article for the second revival at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 18 January 2019 (featuring interviews with former Royal Ballet Director Dame Monica Mason and Principal dancer Laura Morera)
The Royal Ballet – The Unknown Soldier – Premiered at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 20 November 2018 (Featuring an interview with choreographer Alastair Marriott)
Dance Tours Productions – A Night of Royal Elegance 2018 – Premiered Tokyo, Japan, 30 August 2018 (including interviews with; Royal Ballet principals Matthew Ball, Alexander Campbell, Lauren Cuthbertson, Ryoichi Hirano, Laura Morera, Vadim Muntagirov, Yasmine Naghdi and Akane Takada; Royal Ballet Soloist Calvin Richardson; Royal Ballet First Artist Joseph Sissens; Royal Ballet Ballet Master Ricardo Cervera (A Night of Royal Elegance 2018)
The Royal Opera – Monteverdi’s The Return of Ulysses – Premiered at the Roundhouse, Camden, London, 10 January 2018 (Featuring interviews with director John Fulljames and conductor Christian Curnyn)
The National Ballet of Canada/The Royal Ballet – The Dreamers Ever Leave You – Premiered at Printworks, London, 12 October 2017 (Featuring an interview with choreographer Robert Binet)
The Royal Ballet – Symphonic Dances – Premiered at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 18 May 2017 (Featuring an interview with choreographer Liam Scarlett)
The Royal Ballet – Les Enfants Terribles – Premiered at the Barbican Theatre, Barbican Centre, London, 27 January 2017. (Featuring an interview with the show’s director/choreographer Javier de Frutos – an abridged version is available on the Royal Opera House website)
Gary Avis & Friends – Dance for Suffolk 2016 – Premiered at Ipswich Regent Theatre, Ipswich, 10 August 2016
The Royal Ballet – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Digital Programme) – A very modern kind of classical ballet Available to Download from the Royal Opera House website.
Dance Tours Productions – A Night of Royal Elegance 2014 – Premiered Tokyo, Japan, 8 August 2014 (including interviews with; Royal Ballet principals Nehemiah Kish, Sarah Lamb, Steven McRae and Laura Morera; first soloists Ricardo Cervera, Yuhui Choe and Bennet Gartside; Birmingham Royal Ballet principals Chi Cao and Nao Sakuma)
New English Ballet Theatre – Tryst: Devotion and Betrayal – Premiered at Peacock Theatre, London, 2 July 2014 (including interviews with all choreographers, visual artists and dancers, including Daniela Cardim Fonteyne, Kristen McNally, Andrew McNicol Erico Montes and Valentino Zucchetti)
The Royal Ballet – Connectome – Premiered at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 31 May 2014 (featuring interviews with Alastair Marriott and Es Devlin [designer of the London 2012 Olympics closing ceremony among many other things]).
An extract is available to read on the Royal Opera House website.
The Royal Ballet – Don Quixote – Premiered at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 30 September 2013 (featuring interviews with Carlos Acosta, Tim Hatley [designer] and Martin Yates [orchestrator and conductor])
New English Ballet Theatre – Gala Performance – Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 11 October 2013
The Royal Ballet – Raven Girl – Premiered at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London 24 May 2013 (featuring interviews with Wayne McGregor, Audrey Niffenegger [author of The Time Traveler’s Wife] and Gabriel Yared [Oscar-winning composer of The English Patient])
The Royal Ballet – Aeternum – Premiered at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 22 February 2013 (featuring an interview with Christopher Wheeldon). Olivier Award Winner 2013 – Best New Dance Production. Critics’ Circle National Dance Award Winner 2013 – Best Classical Choreography.
The Royal Ballet – 24 Preludes – Premiered at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 22 February 2013 (featuring an interview with Alexei Ratmansky)
The Royal Ballet – Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 – Premiered at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 14 July 2012 (including interviews with choreographers Kim Brandstrup, Alastair Marriott, Wayne McGregor, Liam Scarlett, Will Tuckett, Jonathan Watkins, Christopher Wheeldon; visual artists Chris Ofili, Conrad Shawcross, Mark Wallinger; composers Jonathan Dove, Mico Muhly, Mark-Anthony Turnage)
The introduction is available to read on the Royal Opera House website.
New English Ballet Theatre – Synergies – Peacock Theatre, London (including interviews with all choreographers, visual artists and dancers, including Wayne Eagling, George Williamson and Ernst Meisner)
Dance Tour Productions – A Royal Night at the Ballet 2012 – Tokyo and Kamakura, Japan (including interviews with; Royal Ballet principals Nehemiah Kish, Sarah Lamb, Steven McRae and Laura Morera; first soloists Ricardo Cervera and Yuhui Choe; Birmingham Royal Ballet principals Chi Cao and Nao Sakuma)
Others
Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor – online article for The Royal Opera House website to accompany the opera’s run at Covent Garden in November 2017
The Allure and Appeal of an Anglo-Saxon Cross from Trumpington – online article for the University of Cambridge’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Click here to read the full article on the MAA Digital Lab
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