🩰 Here Is Birmingham Royal Ballet ‘s New 2024/25 Season 🩰 (2025)

Posted by Ballet News | Feb 1, 2024 | Press Releases | 0

BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET ANNOUNCES 2024 – 25 SEASON

🩰 Here Is Birmingham Royal Ballet ‘s New 2024/25 Season 🩰 (1)

BLACK SABBATH – THE BALLETIN ROTTERDAM JUNE 2024 PRESENTED BY HOLLAND DANCE FESTIVAL
THE MAIN COMPANY TO PERFORM CARLOS ACOSTA’S CLASSICAL SELECTIONIN ICELAND SUMMER 2024
AUTUMN SEASON BEGINS WITHLA FILLE MAL GARDÉEAS PART OF 24-28 ASHTON WORLDWIDE FESTIVAL
WORLD PREMIERE OF THE THIRD PART OF THE BIRMINGHAM TRILOGY,LUNA,FEATURING AN ALL-FEMALE CREATIVE TEAM
THE NUTCRACKERRETURNS TO BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME AND THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL
SPRING 2025 UK TOUR OF SIR DAVID BINTLEY’SCINDERELLA
BRB2’S THIRD UK TOUR TO FEATURE AN ALL-NEW PROGRAMME FOR SPRING 2025

Today, announcing Birmingham Royal Ballet ‘s 2024 – 25 Season, the company’s DirectorCarlos Acostasaid:‘I am so happy to be able to share our plans for the future with everyone. Still riding high from the successes of the autumn/winter 2023 season, we have a lot to celebrate, but we also keep moving forward, keep challenging ourselves and keep aiming high, in terms of our goals and ambitions. Everyone at BRB has worked incredibly hard to ensure my vision for this company has been, and continues to be, realised, and I am very proud of our achievements and excited about our plans. This Season exemplifies the importance of balancing the creation of platforms for emerging talents to shine, alongside the joy we bring to the classical canon of work that the Company is so proud to perform.’

Fresh from the sell-out success in Birmingham, Plymouth and London,Black Sabbath – The Ballethas had a raft of international interest. The European premiere will be at the Luxor Theatre in Rotterdam, presented by Holland Dance Festival (13 – 15 June) and we are already in advanced talks about touringBlack Sabbath – The Balletto the USA in summer 2025.

In summer 2024, the Company will make its first-ever visit to Iceland to performCarlos Acosta’s Classical SelectioninReykjavik.

The autumn season begins at Birmingham Hippodrome (25 – 28 September) where BRB presents Sir Frederick Ashton’sLa Fille mal gardée, its Founder Choreographer’s most popular ballet. This is the first timeLa Fille mal gardéehas been presented by BRB under the directorship of Carlos Acosta, who, for many, is one of the definitive interpreters of Colas in this sunny, effervescent ballet. The production will tour to Plymouth Theatre Royal (10 – 13 October) and Sadler’s Wells London (24 – 25 October) and is part of the official 2024-28 Ashton Worldwide Festival. Additional BRB events programmed as part of the Festival includeA Celebration of Ashtonin February 2025, and a special Ashton Foundation ‘Insight’ masterclass, featuring Carlos Acosta and Sandra Madgwick coaching BRB dancers in the roles of Colas and Lise on 30 April 2024 at Elmhurst Ballet School.

Also this autumn, BRB presents theWorld Premiere ofLuna,a 2-act (full-length), abstract ballet in six movements, which forms the final part of Carlos’s Birmingham Trilogy (City of a Thousand Trades+Black Sabbath+Luna). This new work is inspired by the pioneering and socially enterprising women of Birmingham who have contributed to the shape of the city that Birmingham Royal Ballet calls home. Drawing inspiration from the bookOnce Upon a Time in Birmingham: Women Who Dare to Dreamby Louise Palfreyman, it features an all-female, international creative team, including ChoreographersIratxe Ansa(Spain);Wubkje Kuindersma(Netherlands);Seeta Patel(UK);Arielle Smith(UK);Thais Suárez(Cuba); with music composed byKate Whitley(UK). Costume Design is byImaan Ashraf,Projection Design byHayley Eganand Lighting Design byEmma Jones. The creative team will explore contemporary universal themes including matriarchal roles in society, education, female empowerment, overcoming adversity, and community. The World Premiere will be at Birmingham Hippodrome (3-5 October) before it has its London premiere at Sadler’s Wells (22-23 October).

Sir Peter Wright’sThe Nutcrackerwas his gift to the City of Birmingham when Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet moved to the city in 1990 and it remains one of the world’s most spectacular presentations of this festive tale. After breaking all previous box office records in the Birmingham 2023 run, this year will see thefirst-ever Relaxed performanceat Birmingham Hippodrome, which will bring this story to life for children and young people normally unable to attend theatre productions of this scale (1pm, Tue 3 Dec).The Nutcracker’s Birmingham runbegins on 22 Novemberplaying through to14 December. The Royal Albert Hall spectacular presentation ofThe Nutcrackerreturns this year (29 – 31 December 2024).

The 2025 Spring UK Tour will beSir David Bintley’sCinderella, one of BRB’s most popular ballets. With sumptuous sets and costumes by John MacFarlane, virtuoso dance and some of ballet’s most memorable coups de theatre,Cinderellacontinues to thrill audiences across the world with one of the largest UK touring productions. One of BRB’s most in-demand ballets,Cinderellaopens at the Mayflower Southampton (6 – 8 February) before travelling to Birmingham Hippodrome (19 – 29 February), The Lowry Salford (6 – 8 March), Sunderland Empire (13 – 15 March), Bristol Hippodrome (27 – 29 March), and finally Plymouth Theatre Royal (9 – 12 April).

Spring 2025 will see the thirdBRB2UK tour, this time featuring an all-new programme, to be announced. BRB2 has attracted a wealth of international talent to the company already. These future stars have already made their mark within the company and, as the 2-year initiative approaches its first conclusion, all eyes are on what these talented young dancers will do next. Watch this space.

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