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Latest Blogs
Richard Digance - 40 years in the business
Richard Digance is performaing at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre at Northern Ballet on Saturday 12 November; he may only have been a professional comic for 40 years – but it feels a lot longer than that. When the guitar-wielding funnyman/folk singer/poet/stand-up/jack of all trades takes to stage at Leeds’s newest venue, The Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre at Northern Ballet's home on Quarry Hill next week, you should find a man totally at peace with his legacy and place in the...
Overworlds & Underworlds
Last Thursday the dark early evening rain and wind intensified the atmosphere of suspense and expectation around the Leeds Town Hall Crypt, as the first set of people came along to find out more about OverWorlds & UnderWorlds, the first major public-arts project by Leeds Canvas, planned for next year. With the Quay Brothers’ exhibition, Dormitorium, the final destination, groups of people set off on separate journeys throughout the overworld and underworld of the Town Hall, from the Clock...
Academy Students Experience Contemporary Dance
Recently the Northern Ballet Academy students had the chance to take a trip to the Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre to watch Phoenix Dance Theatre’s latest performance of Declarations; a combination of four short works. The show began with the ‘The Audacious One.’ A confetti covered piece as confetti paper was littering the stage! This imaginative piece used an unusual apprentice style set which captured the audience’s attention, and it must be said the dancers did a very good job of picking...
Group bookers delighted at Beauty & the Beast launch event
On 20 October group bookers from Leeds, Sheffield and Hull were invited to a very special evening at Northern Ballet. The atrium of our new home was buzzing as over 130 guests gathered – champagne flowed as anticipation rose. The entertainment hors d'oeuvre was presented in the form of the adagio from The Nutcracker danced beautifully by Julie Charlet and John Hull. Performed in plain dance wear this stripped down version lost none of its beauty and elegance. With appetites whetted, and...
BUZZ - Fashion Bites Back
Yet what an aura surrounds you; Your evil little aura, prowling, and casting a numbness on my mind. That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: Invisibility, and the anæsthetic power To deaden my attention in your direction. But I know your game now, streaky sorcerer. From DH Lawrence, The Mosquito We learn from the poem by DH Lawrence that he didn’t like mosquitoes. Not at all. So irritated was he by them trying to bite him, he wrote 110 lines in ire at their existence. However,...
Zumba Fever
We have all caught the Zumba bug here at Northern Ballet, if you haven’t tried this fun filled work out with catchy tunes and a Latin twist, come and join us, it’s not to be missed! This is the latest and one of the most popular dance craze’s of the moment with the newest celebrity recruit said to be football star Wayne Rooney who is supposed to be enjoying his Zumba classes up to three times a week! So if Wayne has caught Zumba fever it must be worth a try! Our Zumba classes are great for all...
New Class for Northern Ballet
Northern Ballet Academy are starting a number of new classes for adults in September. We will be continuing to run our ever popular adult ballet classes for all levels but will also be introducing Pilates and a brand new concept ‘Ballet Fusion’. Ballet Fusion will be a fitness class based around ballet technique and basic principles of proper posture and core stability whilst getting your heart pumping. It has been designed to improve the students flexibility and over all fitness in a friendly...
Hamlet - what the audience says
Hamlet opened on Friday 9 September at West Yorkshire Playhouse and here are a few of the mentions & comments we've received so far from Twitter & Facebook... Update 22 September @northernballet I saw your production of Hamlet last week, you have changed my perception of ballet forever. AMAZING! Charlotte Payne, @CharliPayne Really enjoyed the first ever Ballet performance I have been to at the @SheffieldLyceum theatre. Hamlet was excellent Alex Wood, @Alexander__Wood @northernballet...
Welcome back to Northern Ballet Academy
Welcome back to Northern Ballet Academy – round-up of what’s coming and up and the summer months. We hope you are all well rested and had a good summer. A warm welcome back to the Academy. We have lots of exciting and challenging things in the pipeline for this year. New classes We are delighted to be running new lunchtime classes in Pilates (taught by Viki Westall who is also a qualified Body Control Pilates teacher). Viki will be teaching Pilates as a 10 week course so...
Music, Milstein & The Handshake Principle
On Thursday, 1 September, Geoffrey Allan and Benjamin Frith will perform a piano and violin duet at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre. In his latest blog Geoff tells us more about the music... I finished my previous blog with the piano tuner about to arrive at my home in preparation for the rehearsal with pianist Benjamin Frith last week. That job has needed doing for a while, and I was glad that the rehearsal pushed me to finally make the call. I’m not much of a pianist myself to be...
