SIZE OF COMPANY
93 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Large-scale

PERMANENT STAFF
Director
Monica Mason

Administrative Director
Anthony Russell-Roberts

Assistant Director
Jeanetta Laurence

Senior Stage Manager
Johanna Adams

ARTISTIC POLICY
The Royal Ballet’s mission is threefold: to create new choreography, music and design; to provide a showcase for heritage repertory, and to breathe fresh life into the established classics making them relevant and exciting for today’s audience. Alongside this, and vital to the future, the company’s outreach work with young people and adults throughout the country brings enlightenment, knowledge and enjoyment. The activities of The Royal Ballet and The Royal Opera are substantially supported by grants from Arts Council England

REVIEW EXTRACTS
‘The company are on excellent form. Cranko’s handling of the Pushkin story as dance is masterly. Onegin still entrances me.’ David Dougall, Sunday Times

‘The Royal Ballet has been enjoying a splendid season, the whole company in shining form.’ David Dougall, Sunday Times

‘Rhapsody was gloriously danced by Leanne Benjamin, unfailing musicality, brilliancy of step and by Carlos Acosta with tremendous bravura.’ Clement Crisp, Financial Times

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
La Bayadère, Romeo & Juliet, Jewels, The Nutcracker, Les Patineurs, Tales of Beatrix Potter, Sylvia, Chroma, Different Drummer, The Rite of Spring, Afternoon of a Faun, Tzigane, New Wheeldon, A Month in the Country, The Sleeping Beauty, Serenade, New Brandstrup, Homage to the Queen, The Dream, Dances at a Gathering.

WRAP-AROUND
Masterclasses, insight days, outreach programmes, schools matinees and education programmes are offered throughout the season.

RECENT INTERNATIONAL WORK
2007 Mexico, USA (Sleeping Beauty/Romeo & Juliet/Coppelia/Swan Lake)
2006 Spain, Turkey, USA (Manon/The Sleeping Beauty/La Valse/New Marriott/Enigma Variations/Requiem/Romeo & Juliet)
2005 Japan, Korea, Singapore (Swan Lake/Cinderella/Manon)

TOURING AVAILABILITY
June to July 2008