Missing your ballet or theatre fix? Birmingham Royal Ballet, based here at Birmingham Hippodrome, are launching Home From Home, a new series of online content which will give an exclusive insight into the company’s daily routine and specially curated performances as they stay fit and creative whilst in isolation at their homes across the globe.

The Birmingham Royal Ballet: Home From Home series will open with Ballet Class Live and a very special ‘living-room’ performance of The Swan, both projects have been created in partnership with BBC Culture in Quarantine. Take a look below for more details and how you can join in…

BALLET CLASS LIVE
Friday 3 April from 11am via BBC.CO.UK/ARTS

Tune in to watch (and participate) with the Birmingham Royal Ballet company as they dial in to a special ballet class live from their homes all over the world including Australia, France, Japan, New Zealand, the USA and UK.

Led by one of Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Ballet Masters Dominic Antonucci and accompanied by pianist Ross Williams, the class will give access to the daily physical warm up routine of these world-class dancers, with online participants including Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet Carlos Acosta.

THE SWAN
Wednesday 8 April at 3pm via BBC.CO.UK/ARTS and BRB.ORG.UK

BBC’s Culture in Quarantine will make available a specially curated performance of The Swan, introduced by Carlos Acosta and performed by Birmingham Royal Ballet principal dancer Céline Gittens, accompanied by principal pianist Jonathan Higgins and cellist Antonio Novais from Birmingham Royal Ballet’s orchestra, the Royal Ballet Sinfonia.

This poignant piece, set to Camille Saint-Saëns’s Le Cygne from Le Carnaval des animaux, was originally choreographed by Mikhail Fokine for legendary ballerina Anna Pavlova and is popularly known as The Dying Swan.

Make sure to tune in to both exciting features for this unique opportunity for an insight into the ballet world.