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Season 2008/2009
  • English National Ballet Swans into Spring with a triple bill and Coppélia
  • Derek Deane’s Swan Lake performed at the Grand Theatre Leeds
  • First Company performances at the Royal Festival Hall since 1997
  • Autumn/Winter sees two MacMillan full-length touring the UK and at the London Coliseum
 
International touring

2007 saw English National Ballet perform in one of the world’s most spectacular settings, the gardens of the Chateau of Versailles. The Company performed Derek Deane’s Swan Lake on a floating stage on the Basin de Neptune with the moon lit Château in the background. Over the three performances a total of 23,500 people saw performances which featured Thomas Edur and Agnes Oaks, Dariá Klimentova and Freideman Vogel and Vogel with New York City Ballet star Sofiane Sylve.


 
Concert for Diana to be released as a DVD
English National Ballet's contribution to former patron Diana's memorial comcert is to be captured forever in a DVD of the entire concert. Swan Lake will appear alongside, Elton John, Take That and Brian Ferry in the live concert at Wembley Stadium.

A portion of all profits from sales will come to the Company which will be directed into a special Commissioning Fund. The DVD goes on sale 5 November.



 
Swarovski, costume sponsor
Swarovski Crystal has chosen to support one of the world’s leading ballet Companies, English National Ballet, for their new production of The Snow Queen. The costumes will come to life with the adornment of hundreds of thousands of Crystallized Swarovski Elements, accenting the movement of the dancers and adding light and sparkle to the stage.

 

 
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Principal Begona dances Cinderella, Stepsisters and the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella this Summer

 
 
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