Category Archives: David Bintley

Giselle – Birmingham Royal Ballet: Sadler’s Wells, 1 November 2019

Posted on November 3, 2019 by gerarddavis09

Wili or won’t he? Galina Samsova and David Bintley’s 1999 Giselle is as traditional as they come – in fact, it’s more traditional than most, even to the point of restoring music from the original 1841 production (a perfectly pleasant … Continue reading →

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Hobson’s Choice – Birmingham Royal Ballet: Sadler’s Wells, 29 June 2019

Posted on June 30, 2019 by gerarddavis09

A Proper Gentleman This was the last performance of David Bintley’s 24-year long directorship of Birmingham Royal Ballet [BRB] and it was held not in Birmingham but in London’s Sadler’s Wells, the Company’s abode in a previous guise. At the … Continue reading →

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[Un]leashed – Birmingham Royal Ballet: 25 June 2019, Sadler’s Wells

Posted on June 26, 2019 by gerarddavis09

Wolfing it up [Un]leashed constitutes the first part of David Bintley’s last foray to Sadler’s Wells as director of Birmingham Royal Ballet (his Full-length Hobson’s Choice comes later in the week) and it features a trio of works all by … Continue reading →

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The Nutcracker – Birmingham Royal Ballet: Royal Albert Hall, London, 28 December 2017

Posted on December 29, 2017 by gerarddavis09

Hallmost done As ever there are plenty of Nutcrackers inhabiting London’s theatres this year and even Birmingham Royal Ballet [BRB] have upped sticks from the Black Country for a week to show what they have to offer. The cavernous Royal … Continue reading →

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Arcadia/ Le Baiser de la Fée/‘Still Life’ at the Penguin Café – Birmingham Royal Ballet: Sadler’s Wells, 4 November 2017

Posted on November 5, 2017 by gerarddavis09

Miss Kiss In no physical way does Le Baiser de la Fée resemble a London bus but it is true that you wait years to see one and then two come along at once. Just weeks after Scottish Ballet presented … Continue reading →

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The Tempest – Birmingham Royal Ballet: Sadler’s Wells, London, 13 October 2016

Posted on October 14, 2016 by gerarddavis09

Storming the balletcades There are three quite separate things going on in David Bintley’s new creation for Birmingham Royal Ballet, William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Firstly there’s the story. It didn’t make much sense to me. Important moments are hurried and … Continue reading →

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Wink/The Moor’s Pavane/The Shakespeare Suite – Birmingham Royal Ballet: Sadler’s Wells, 10 October 2016

Posted on October 11, 2016 by gerarddavis09

Willing it on It’s right that the greatest ever Brummie, William Shakespeare, should have his legacy celebrated by Birmingham Royal Ballet. Whether this Triple Bill was the best way to do it remains to be seen. Jessica Lang’s Wink was … Continue reading →

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Triple Bill – Birmingham Royal Ballet: Sadler’s Wells, London, 16 October 2015

Posted on October 17, 2015 by gerarddavis09

Ballet is woman. Ballet is man. Sometimes with big moustaches. The main feature of the Triple Bill Birmingham Royal Ballet brought to Sadler’s Wells was the London premiere of David Bintley’s The King Dances. Based loosely on the Le Ballet … Continue reading →

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Shadows of War – Birmingham Royal Ballet: Sadlers Wells, London, 17 October 2014

Posted on October 18, 2014 by gerarddavis09

Don’t mention the war! Rightly, 2014 has seen plenty of commemorations of the start of the First World War but Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Shadows of War was rather less focussed. Originally created for London’s The Royal Ballet in 1979, Kenneth … Continue reading →

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Prince of the Pagodas – Birmingham Royal Ballet: London Coliseum, 26 March 2014

Posted on March 27, 2014 by gerarddavis09

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes The ability to turn a single person into a salamander is a strange sort of magic to possess but that’s the talent Empress Épine harbours in Prince of the Pagodas. The tale of Princess Belle Sakura who discovers that … Continue reading →

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