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Now is a great time to become a Friend of English National Ballet. We've listed five reasons to indulge in your passion for ballet and dance with us, and become part of our English National Ballet community. Read more

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 sections from some of Massenet’s other operas, oratorios, art songs and orchestra suites. Read more

We are performing Lest We Forget at Sadler's Wells, London from 20-29 Sep. What has been the audience's reaction? Read on. Read more

One hundred years on from the First World War, and ahead of our performances of Lest We Forget, we asked members of our company to share their family stories about the conflict and relatives who lived through the war. Here are some of them. Read more

In between her work on various other projects, composer Jocelyn Pook took the time to answer our questions about creating the music for Akram Khan’s Dust, part of Lest We Forget. Read more

Dust was created by choreographer Akram Khan  in 2014, as part of Lest We Forget, our dance programme reflecting on World War I. We met with one of his collaborators, Kimie Nakano, who designed its costumes. Read more