Birmingham Royal Ballet

Name: Birmingham Royal Ballet
Address: Thorp Street, Birmingham, B54AU, GB
Telephone: +441212453500
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Rating: 4.8

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One of the world’s great touring ballet companies. Ballet everywhere, together with the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Freefall Dance Company and BRB2.
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11/06/2026

A classic returns.

We're thrilled to be bringing back Theme and Variations as part of our 20th-Century Masterpieces triple bill. Enjoy this exclusive look at rehearsals with The George Balanchine Trust’s Victoria Simon, through the lens of Hannah Beveridge.

You can catch Theme and Variations at Birmingham Hippodrome next week for four performances only! Don't miss your chance to experience this 20th-century masterpiece live: https://bit.ly/43tgwig

Dancer credits: 1. Yuki Sugiura, Lucy Waine, Amelia Thompson, Reina Fuchigami and Victoria Simon. 2. Reina Fuchigami, Gabriel Anderson and Amelia Thompson. 3. Yuki Sugiura. 4. The Artists of Birmingham Royal Ballet with Victoria Simon. 5. Lucy Waine. 6. Mason King. 7. The Artists of Birmingham Royal Ballet with Victoria Simon. 8. The Artists of Birmingham Royal Ballet with Victoria Simon.

Theme and Variations. Choreography by George Balanchine ® The George Balanchine Trust.

10/06/2026

It's been five years 🫨

We can’t believe that it has been five years today since the opening of City of a Thousand Trades!

In this ballet, the story of how our home city of Birmingham became known as the City of a Thousand Trades is told through dance.

We had so much fun performing this ballet for audiences in Birmingham and London back in 2021.

09/06/2026

Join us next Thursday 18 June to celebrate our Founding Director, Sir Peter Wright's, 100th year! 🥳

Sir Peter was a key driver of our move to Birmingham in 1990, and in this video we uncover Sir Peter’s passion and ambition for the Company during the move.

Thank you, Sir Peter, for everything you have done for Birmingham Royal Ballet, we can’t wait to celebrate next week!

Join the party and watch performances of some of Sir Peter’s highlights across his 100 years, book now: https://bit.ly/4eboW2x

08/06/2026

Ahead of performing The Green Table next week, we spoke to Julia Seiber Boyd, whose mother Lilla Bauer was a principal dancer for Ballets Jooss.

In this video, Julia talks to us about how the role of The Young Girl in The Green Table was created specifically for her mother, and why performing this ballet in 2026 is as timely as it was back in 1932, when it first premiered.

The Green Table forms part of our repertory for Sir Peter Wright Centenary (Thursday 18 June) and 20th-Century Masterpieces (Friday 19 and Saturday 20 June). Book your tickets to see this rarely-performed masterpiece before it’s too late: https://bit.ly/4e4I6bT

07/06/2026

Celebrating our Founding Director!

In just under two weeks we take to the Hippodrome stage to celebrate Sir Peter Wright in his 100th year.

Join us for an evening of sparkling highlights from classical favourites Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Coppélia and Giselle, culminating in a performance of one of Sir Peter’s favourite works, Kurt Jooss’s The Green Table.

For one night only on Thursday 18 June. Book your tickets for Sir Peter Wright’s Centenary: https://bit.ly/4dQv3dR

Photography credits. 1. Celine Gittens and Brandon Lawrence in Swan Lake by Bill Cooper. 2. Momoko Hirata and the Artists of Birmingham Royal Ballet in The Sleeping Beauty by Tristram Kenton. 3. Beatrice Parma and Rory Mackay in Coppélia by Bill Cooper. 4. Mark Welford and Yi-Lei Cai in The Green Table by Leslie E. Spatt.

06/06/2026

Meet the newest members of the Royal Ballet Sinfonia!

We’re delighted to welcome Richard Stroud (Sub-Principal Fourth Horn), Fabián Galeana (Sub-Principal No.2 Double Bass), and James Flannery (Sub-Principal No.2 Viola) to the company.

Richard joins us for Sir Peter Wright’s Centenary celebration and 20th-Century Masterpieces this month.

Fabián and James join the Sinfonia for projects in London across the next four months, before joining us in Birmingham for Swan Lake this autumn.

Find out more about the new players at https://bit.ly/4atF1zy

Images: 1. Richard Stroud. 2. Fabián Galeana. 3. James Flannery.

05/06/2026

Now on sale: Tchaikovsky Classics with Birmingham Royal Ballet and the Royal Ballet Sinfonia!

We’re excited to return to Symphony Hall on Saturday 6 March 2027 with Tchaikovsky Classics.

A celebration of the music of the legendary Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer of the glorious scores for The Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake and The Nutcracker - the jewels of ballet's classical repertory.

Our world-class dancers will perform: from Swan Lake, the romantic ‘white swan’ pas de deux’, Cygnets pas de quatre from Act II and the breathtaking ‘black swan’ pas de deux from Act III, including the famous 32 fouettés; from The Sleeping Beauty, the heart-stopping, bravura pas de deux for the Bluebird and Princess Florine from Act IVl; and from The Nutcracker, the beautiful grand pas de deux of the Prince and the Sugar Plum Fairy.

Book your tickets early to avoid disappointment: https://bit.ly/4xcq1zX

Photography by Caroline Holden. 1. Yasiel Hodelin Bello and Céline Gittens. 2. Olivia Chang Clarke, Rachele Pizzillo, Rosanna Ely and Reina Fuchigami.

01/06/2026

And that's a wrap!

BRB2's tour of Carlos Acosta's Ballet Celebration concluded last week.

A huge congratulations to BRB2 for a fantastic tour, and thank you if you joined us for a performance.

Photograph of BRB2 by Hugh Hastings.

The tour wouldn't have been possible without BRB2's funders. Thank you! BRB2 is generously supported by multi-year gifts from the Oak Foundation, Charles Holloway OBE, Jerwood Foundation, Linbury Trust, Mary Laing and the late David Laing. The company is also made possible through support by The George Cadbury Fund, The Amar-Franses and Foster-Jenkins Trust, The GNC Trust, The Gitta Tangye Trust, The GJW Turner Trust, The Noël Coward Foundation and Monuskin.

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Thorp Street
Birmingham
B54AU

Telephone

+441212453500

Website

http://www.brb.org.uk/

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