Two installations were installed at the CiB Shop yesterday. First off the Art Detection Services set up their workshop and offices in our Strange Little Room At The Back. Here’s head Art Detector Matt Moore hard at work. Matt will be scanning Art that is brought in to test whether it is Good or not. … [Read more…]
David Bintley’s good at these pieces to camera. Here he is announcing the ballet’s 20th anniversary season – favourites from over the years and a new production of Cinderella. Prices have been frozen for this year, get in quick, etc and so on.
From a tweet by Matt Murtagh: The specific reason for posting this is that a while back I went to a meeting about ‘audience development’ where we were told that significant numbers of people believe you have to turn up to the ballet in a fur coat and a Bentley. Oddly, many of the people … [Read more…]
Yup, it’s that magic word free again. This time Birmingham Royal Ballet are offering a free choreographics presentation with a drinks reception and an introduction by company director David Bintley. It’s on Thursday 11 February at 7.30pm at Elmhurst School for Dance. Tickets are limited to two per person and seats will be allocated on … [Read more…]
Bintley triumphs at South Bank Show Awards “Birmingham Royal Ballet’s David Bintley held off stiff competition from Britain’s Got Talent winners Diversity and fellow ballet Limen by Wayne McGregor to win the dance category at the final South Bank Show Awards for E=mc2”. Quite right, it’s an incredible production An Endless Supply | Issue 9 … [Read more…]
During my first stint on Created in Birmingham I had a nagging feeling that there was loads of good dance stuff going on but it was all happening under my radar. I’m pretty much on top of it these days, partly for the reasons given in the disclaimer at the bottom of this post but … [Read more…]
Producers’ Forum Monthly Networking “The Producers’ Forum next monthly networking meeting will be on Monday 14th December 17:00 at The Victoria Pub” Business Development Grants – Birmingham City Council “The Business Development Grant Programme is funded by the Working Neighbourhoods Fund and runs until March 2011. It is aimed specifically at helping new and existing … [Read more…]
The Big Picture people have news of the Birmingham Royal Ballet offering free tickets for a preview of their upcoming show, ‘Russian Steps‘ on 8 October at the Hipodrome. The new show consists of three ballets by Russian composers: ‘Concerto’ is a pure dance piece from master choreographer Kenneth MacMillan. ‘The Firebird’ is a magical … [Read more…]