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When Kenneth MacMillan started work on his ballet version of Manon, rather than use the scores from Giacomo Puccini’s opera Manon Lescaut or Jules Massenet’s opera Manon, he chose to cherry-pick pieces of music written by the latter. This includes...

Composer Jocelyn Pook took the time to answer our questions about creating the music for Akram Khan’s Dust, part of Lest We Forget.

We met with one of Akram Khan's collaborators, Kimie Nakano, who designed Dust's costumes.

Over several weeks, our dancers worked with Forsythe and his repetiteurs to create and learn those pieces. How did they find this experience?

Hear more about this brand new version of the classic ballet choreographed especially for children aged three upwards.

Diana White, former Soloist with New York City Ballet, where she danced for 20 years, is coming to teach and stage Jerome Robbins's The Cage, as part of Voices of America.

We're thrilled to be performing Jerome Robbins's The Cage for the first time, as part of our mixed bill Voices of America. Read up on five fascinating facts about this gripping work.

A selection of quotes on ballet to get inside the mind of the creative genius behind The Cage

We asked four of our dancers to tell us more about the lead roles in La Sylphide.

Here are five interesting facts about Roland Petit's iconic ballet, where a restless young man is visited by a taunting young woman.

Roland Petit choreographed Le Jeune Homme et la Mort in 1946, from an idea by Jean Cocteau.

In Autumn 2017, English National Ballet performed Kenneth MacMillan's Song of the Earth for the first time ever.