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This autumn/winter season, we’re performing La Sylphide, a recreation of August Bournonville’s version by Frank Andersen and Eva Kloborg. Bournonville’s production is actually an adaptation of an 1832 French ballet by Filippo Taglioni, which signalled the dawn of a new, Romantic era of ballet, but it is Bournonville’s interpretation that’s still performed around the world. It is not only one of the oldest ballets in existence, but a pillar of the Romantic tradition. Read more

This autumn/winter, we are performing Kenneth MacMillan's Song of the Earth for the first time ever. This work is indisputably a masterpiece. The story of love, loss and inescapable death told through MacMillan’s beautiful, sparse choreography and Mahler’s epic song cycle will stay with you for days, if not years, after. Read more

Our autumn season is now underway, and the excitement continues as we announce English National Ballet’s 2018 spring/summer season. Read more

With an exciting and busy season now behind us, hear from Principal and Backes & Strauss Ambassador Shiori Kase to find out what it was like performing in her hometown of Tokyo during our Japan tour last month. Read more

Now that we've wrapped up another thrilling season, we take a look back at our most recent international tour to Japan in July. During the tour, we were delighted to spend an evening at the British Ambassador's Residence in Tokyo, at an event hosted by our long-standing partner, Backes & Strauss. Read more

Celebrating 40 years since its creation, Nureyev's Romeo & Juliet opens at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall tonight. Before the show, find out all the key facts and figures behind this award-winning production. Read more