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Latest Blogs
Human Variations - The Choreographic Showcase
If you weren’t there, you should have been. The Choreographic Showcase was a mesmeric delight. Dancers from Northern Ballet and Phoenix Dance Theatre came together to choreograph eleven pieces of brand spanking new dance. The fledgling choreographers were each given the same mission statement – simply, create a piece of dance. Dance. No sets, no costumes and precious few props. The focus was pulled firmly on movement and each piece having a discrete kinetic language of its own. What was...
Phil Cool and Richard Digance come to the Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre
Legends of mirth, Phil Cool and Richard Digance, are coming to the Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre. I, like many who’ve bumbled through a university in the last ten years, first came across Digance on Countdown. I was always impressed and alarmed by his capacity to turn almost anything into a chipper limerick. I first came across Phil Cool, without knowing it, at the same time. An insatiable appetite for procrastination at university led me to watch Spitting Image from the beginning and...
Wheelchair Dance Project 2011
Do you want to try something different? Do you want to be part of a wheelchair dance group? Then come along to our workshops and give it a try! In March and May, the Learning team held taster sessions for the Wheelchair Dance project, offering young people in Leeds who are wheelchair users, the chance to try some dance. Dance artists Caroline Burn and Zoe Parker led the sessions which introduced participants to movement in their chairs, and explored the use of props as a stimulus for...
Choreographic Workshop - Preview Photos
On 17 & 18 June The Stanley & Audrey Burton Studio Theatre at Northern Ballet will play host to a very special showcase, one where Northern Ballet and Phoenix Dance Theatre dancers have turned choreographer to create brand new and exciting work. Kenneth Tindall, Northern Ballet premier dancer, has created a piece called Project #1 which Ben Mitchell, Victoria Sibson and Tobias Batley will perform on both nights. Below are images taken by Martin Bell of the rehearsals...
Gifted & Talented Primary School Project
Gifted & talented primary school project in partnership with Artforms, Children’s services Leeds. 16 June will see 30 talented young dancers from six primary schools across Leeds will have their first experience at dancing in one of Northern Ballet’s first-class studios when they come together for a day of dance designed to challenge and expand their dance abilities. Over the past two month’s teachers from Beechwood Primary, Manston St James Primary, Whinmoor St Pauls C of E Primary, St...
Quarry Hill Festival
The clouds are gathering, the temperature’s dropping and rain is on the way – that’s right, it’s festival time! But before you pack up your tent and pull on your wellies, you should check out what’s happening right here at Northern Ballet’s new home on Quarry Hill on 2 July: for good, clean, mostly dry and not to mention FREE fun for all your family and friends, you won’t beat the Quarry Hill Festival. Centrally located in the area, Northern Ballet will be a veritable hub of activity on the...
Dance in the City Summer School
Join Northern Ballet this summer for a week of exciting dance and look at the city of Leeds from a whole new angle. Our Dance in the City summer school takes place from 22–26 August and offers a new perspective on Leeds through creative dance sessions which will have you dancing in the streets. Based in the heart of the city at Northern Ballet on Quarry Hill our state-of-the art dance studios provide an inspirational setting for all aspiring dancers. Our specialist teachers, along with a...
Alea iacta est
Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre – a Six Month Review, After Eight Months Alea iacta est. So said Caesar before he crossed the Rubicon and led his troops on Rome. With this pronouncement, the annals tell us, did Caesar march against the might of Pompey. Alea iacta est, he said, let the die be cast. But the Rubicon is more than a river in Rome, dear readers. It has come to be an imaginary line drawn in the chaos of history, an isobar of certitude in a climate of uncertain things. It refers...
String Trio - Concert Series Blog
Northern Ballet Sinfonia Orchestra Leader, Geoffrey Allan, tells us about the forthcoming String Trio Concert at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre at Northern Ballet. From the players, through the tight rehearsal schedule to a behind-the-scenes insight into life on tour... Shortly before the Sinfonia was informed of the plan to stage a season of chamber music concerts in our new studio theatre at Quarry Hill, a small group of us were asked to take part in an outreach project...
Get fit for Summer!
Summer is here and it’s time to get fit, tone up and get dancing with Northern Ballet Academy’s Open Classes. For the rest of this term Northern Ballet Academy are offering half price classes in contemporary and jazz to get the people of Leeds up and dancing and ready for the beach! That means classes are just £3.25 each. Any students who are regularly attending our ballet classes can take their first contemporary and jazz class free of charge as a trial. Class times Contemporary 1 (beginners...
