Insights: The Royal Ballet in rehearsal 

This current crop of talented Royal Ballet dancers all have absolutely perfect technique. Clean as a whistle, refined, textbook technique 😍.

Have you all considered putting ROH ballet performances on a paid streaming service easily accessible for audiences outside the UK? I’d pay to have full performances old and new on a streaming service and I bet I’m not the only fan who would.

The incredible Christopher Carr. The depth and complexity of his knowledge of the steps is quite frightening, combined with the clarity of his eye. He has given his life to the Royal Ballet. He is a living legend .

So glad I watched this. Christopher Carr is a brilliant custodian of Ashton - and lovely to hear how much these great dancers appreciate his insights.

It's my first time watching this ballet. What a beauty.

Just came back home from watching this amazing performance in Linbury Theatre. Thank you guys, it was amazing!

Einfach brilliant, welche Technik die Tänzer und Tänzerinnen heutzutage haben. Kraft, Präzision, Geschwindigkeit und Brillianz, das kann man alles bestaunen bei diesem tollen Ballettwerk. Sehr schwierig zum Tanzen, aber fantastisch zum Zuschauen. Mein Kompliment an alle Mitwirkenden!

Love the Yasmine/Vadim pairing💕

Lovely Yasmin, perfect as usual. Also marvelous pianist and incredibly strong coach. This company has such a deep bench of talented people.

Absolutely beautiful choreography and marvelous dancers. Great to see so many amazing male dancers.

The guy in green (Leo Dixon) has a lot of presence on the stage. They are all stunning dancers.

Love watching anything Christopher Carr is involved with. A hard taskmaster but coming from a place of pure goodness and kindness.

It all looks incredible. So pleased to see Giacomo Rovero featured. I loved the video of him working with Liam Scarlett and Laura Morera in Symphonic Dances some years ago. I hope we'll see more of him.

Bewunderungswürdig!! Einfach perfekt! Danke!

Stunning! What a treat :)

Christopher Carr is truly outstanding as a teacher.

thank you! it's great💟

Thank your for sharing these cultural blessings with us! :)

missed the live but I still love it

Great host as well.

I hope this triple bill comes on DVD or stream. It doesn't show in cinemas in my country :(

Thank you so much for sharing. Ashton's "Scènes" is one the 20th century classics and a personal favourite - what a treat to see it in rehearsal! Though, not to sound like Billy Rose, but I think I prefer the piano reduction.

Christopher Carr ... is a force to be reckoned with. He may be seen as a very demanding teacher, but he's genuinely a very kind person. And any dancer will tell you he is a no-nonsense Repertoar of the highest standard. The Royal Ballet dancers are a breed unto themselves. Just like one can pick out a Vaganova-trained dancer, one can pick out an English Royal Ballet-trained dancer.

The dancers are stars of course but Christopher Carrs mastery of his craft is wonderful to see.

Два раза просмотрела это видео. Великолепная хореография, очень трудная, музыка очень трудная для танца кажется с первого раза, но хореография так вписана в музыку, что вопросы отпадают. Танцоры выше всяческих похвал, красивые, в прекрасной форме. Прочитала все отзыва, со всеми согласна на всех языках. Для разнообразия написала на русском. Огромное спасибо за этот фильм.

Vadream 💕

@RoyalOperaHouse Have you ever gotten video from the fly tower of the “geometry” passage mentioned at 1:05? That would be amazing for RU-vid. I’m sure it would be mesmerizing!

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Geometry Genius

love christopher carr! ❤

I just love that moment where they all prepare in fourth to pirouette at 33:40 🤤

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😢Wow. Never seen this ballet. All I can say is I’m amazed at first Yasmin, then Christopher and Vanessa in their end talk, talking of the ‘musicality’ of the ballet. How ON EARTH they danced to it, I’ll never know, because I don’t hear music. I hear ghastly, appalling dissonance. Apart from the Adagio in ‘Concerto’, I’ve never heard a single note of ‘music’ by Stravinsky. Hope I’ve matched ballet to correct composer! I utterly loathe his dissonance. Like Prokofiev’s The Firebird, which I have seen, plus Margot doing it (on film). How the dancers count as they discussed at the end talk, I just have no idea. Well done them, that’s all I can say! The dancing was quite amazing, how Ashton choreographed it is also amazing - from his bath too! But Yasmine….SO appallingly thin she looks unhealthy - does she eat 2 lettuce leaves a day, one for each incredibly too-thin thigh??? And is Teo Debruiel the son of Alan Debruiel?? (can’t even now spell it!). I saw him dance so often and adored him. Imagine from father to son, if that is so. Brilliant!

Just never figure out what the powers that be at The Royal Ballet sees in Vadim Muntagirov. Every role is done in a one-size-fits-all approach. Every dance is glossed over the surface. Technically brilliant, yep. Dramatically potent? Na.

I love the Royal Ballet but these companies ar doing too much modern stuff thats not even ballet anymore. I hope the art is never lost. Ballet is all about beauty and lines, and the human body. The contraction and release makeup of modern ballet is just not pretty, its not pleasant to me. For that I would choose Martha Graham Dance company . I think this is why these dancers are beeing hurt so frequently, its more about acrobatics and tricks. Not ballet at all. I wonder what Petipa would think.

What the heck is that weird comb-over about? Looks ridiculous.