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In just over a week's time Akram Khan’s Giselle heads to Liverpool for the first time, following its smash-hit revival in London last month, and critically acclaimed 2016 tour. Read more

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

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

In 1977, the legendary Rudolf Nureyev created his own version of the ballet Romeo & Juliet for us, when we were then called London Festival Ballet. The weeks of creation were an intense period for everyone involved. Here are five interesting background facts about it. Read more

Arguably one of the world’s greatest love stories ever told, Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet has inspired many composers and choreographers. English National Ballet boasts of having two different productions in its current repertoire: Derek Deane’s in-the-round version, which we have performed at the Royal Albert Hall, and Rudolf Nureyev’s, which was created especially for us in 1977 for the Queen's Silver Jubilee. Read more