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This is our Primary Links page; it contains links we really rate and/or find useful and/or have sentimental attraction! We update these words generally once per year. Here is the view in December 1999.  But we also have many more pages of Categorised Links. Even better readers, or other webmasters, can easily Add a Link to our pages. Or why not try the Random Link option and see where you come out? |
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Royal Ballet. Just redesigned and rather lighter in look and tone these days. Overall it is much more comprehensive than before with dancer details at last added for example. Also the ability to book on-line is much appreciated. A site that much better supports the new Royal Opera House. {top} |
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English National Ballet. A very good looking site from ENB and recently overhauled, though they are planning to do more yet. Probably the most overt ballet site in the UK and determined to make a splash and bring more people through the door. Excellent stuff and just what dance and ballet need. {top} |
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Birmingham Royal Ballet. A new site in 2003 that covers all the bases and changes colour with the repertoire too!
We are pleased to say that Ballet.co provide the Official Discussion Forum for BRB - BRBTalk
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Scottish Ballet. Not 'flash' but a solid and very comprehensive site with all the information you need including dancer details. Also includes a place to post your thoughts on their productions. {top} |
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Capitalising on the success of their Swan Lake and Cinderella, AMP have a very modern, amusing and graphic rich site that in part uses Flash technology - however you don't have to download anything to still get useful information from this site. The AMP website has always been refreshingly different and that's still the case! {top} |
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Northern Ballet Theatre. New site for 2004, from the company that does more touring than any other. Much better looking and crammed with information. Should be easy to update |
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Adonais Ballet Company |
A small company that tours extensively up and down the land. The site is now very comprehensive and has a good list of where you can see them. {top} |
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Chelsea Ballet are a charming amateur company that should be much better known. The site also has some information on Rambert Ballet history. {top} |
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A content rich site about the Kirov Ballet and including some interesting photographs. Bob Fisher keeps the site bang up to date. When the Kirov come near you look here for specifics. {top} |
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Hamburg Ballet's site is excellent and a lovely example of how to do things. Some nice photographs, good dancer and rep sections together with details of how to get tickets, including on-line booking. Even includes some details of students at the school. {top} |
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New York City Ballet |
A good looking site that seems to have been created by 'friends' of NYCB. Looks nice with lots of interesting features including on-line booking and a small costume section. {top} |
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Blandine. A brilliantly sad site that every ballet and dance lover should visit.
Let the rest be a surprise to you! {top} |
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Sylvie Guillem Page. Jim Fowler's page of all things Sylvie. Some nice pictures and quotes from reviews. I know how he feels! I have some links direct from Sylvie's section on this site to Jim's pages. {top} |
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Nina Ananiashvili has a ballet site at www.ananiashvili.com. We remember Nina as a marvelous guest with the Royal Ballet in the early 1990's (when Asylmuratova also guested - what halcyon days!). She also famously did the Don Quixote pdd with a young Errol Pickford at an ROH gala; Nina was brilliant and he held it together ... but it was touch and go at times. The nice thing was how unstuffy and nice she was towards him. {top} |
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Diaghilev & Ballets Russes Page. Aside from Sylvie's tribute, Jim Fowler also has some interesting pages on early 20th century ballet heroes. Besides Diaghilev you will find pages on Pavlova and Grigoriev and extensive information on the Russes. Oh that things were quite so exiting for us at the end of the 20th century. {top} |
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Ballet Alert! |
Ballet Alert!. "For People who love ballet" is the strap line. Ballet Alert! is a US magazine/ newsletter devoted to ballet and this is a web site that features some of the content plus areas to interact etc. What marks it as different are the professional journalists/writers involved. A nice place to interact and find the answers to in-depth questions. {top} |
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DanceViewWest |
DanceViewWest. "...an online extension of DanceView that makes reviews, previews, commentary and occasional pieces about dance in the Bay Area available to everyone with time and a modem"! {top} |
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Richard Finkelstein's Artslynx International Dance Resources site is great to drop into for inspiration and information - lots of links categories that you just don't find elsewhere.
And the This Month in Dance History and Guide to Ballets pages get you thinking too! {top} |
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Renee Renouf's idiosyncratic International Dance Alliance site is still growing. The background to it is... ‘to maintain Ben Sommer's dance-related vision of the verses of Isaiah 2:4 “..and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”’
Now go and wander over... |
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BIG: Ballet Independents' Group |
For news and information about a small independent group, try the Big site - the Ballet Independents' Group. Set up by choreographers (and ex-RB dancers) Susan Crow and Jennifer Jackson, the group concentrates on pushing ballet and dance in new directions with a combination of dance pieces and discussion linked to various dance seasons (such as Dance Blitz). {top} |
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Lisa Harris for Ballet Class Music. A different type of ballet site with nothing about dancers!. Lisa has played piano for ballet classes (and more) in many parts of the world including for our own English National Ballet. She is currently working in Seattle and this site is very much about the CDs and cassettes she has made over the last few years. What sets it apart are the music samples. As an example here is a real goody of a tune, but I won't tell you what it is!. All the sound samples are in RealAudio format. You might need to download and install the realaudio player prior to listening to them. Worth it; sites will have more and more stuff like this in the future. {top} |
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Greg Fight's Dance Photography. Greg works for a paper in Florida and these are some of the pictures he has taken of local companies and dance schools. Its not a large site but there are too few good pictures of ballet and he has some particularly charming shots including behind the scenes stuff. {top} |
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BalletWeb. Jim William's site features not only some nice pictures but also ballet animation's. To run these you need of the newer V3 Browsers and a download of Quicktime from the Apple site (Jim gives details/links on how to sort all this). If it's all too much just concentrate on the pictures for now.... {top} |
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Dance Magazine. A pleasant (US) site that is updated monthly and tells you all about what is in the hardcopy version of the magazine. They have quite a range and include some reviews of what is happening in Europe and the UK. They are also starting to use the web in its own right and have an interesting reviews section and a postings page. They obviously have taste because we were a site of the month of theirs! {top} |
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Dance Pages |
Estelle Souche's comprehensive, original and idiosyncratic ballet site. Lots of good background stuff to read including biographies on dancers, ballets and companies. There are also a few choice pictures to look at. {top} |
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Dance Books |
We think Dance Books, in London, is the only bookshop in the world that concentrates exclusively on dance and ballet. If you have never been, and have the opportunity, do visit (they are near Covent Garden); I'm sure that like us you will find them very helpful and knowledgeable. They also now have their catalogue on line and do a good range of videos and CDs. {top} |
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CyberDance |
The largest and most comprehensive list of links I've seen on any site. Nicely laid out and great to wander around, though there are a few more duff links these days. If you think dance and ballet is not so popular these days a trip here will cheer you up no end. {top} |
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Dance Links |
A definitive, or as near as you can get at any one time, list of links to dance companies around the world. {top} |
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Dance!90210 |
A friendly site in California; the place to look if you are out that way and in need of a ballet fix. Contains a reviews section that covers companies that pass through (such as AMP and the Royal Ballet!). {top} |
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Electronic Telegraph Review Pages |
One of the first papers on the web and covering dance very well from day one. Unfortunately their last reorganisation (of 10/98) means that the Sunday Telegraph reviews don't make it onto the web anymore - a real shame. But Ismene Brown's pieces, be they reviews or occasional interviews, regularly appear. Daily Telegraph front page link {top} |
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Royal Ballet School is world famous for teaching dance. After a long period of neglect it now has a small but classy looking site with details of how to apply etc - one of the things we are always being asked about. Lets hope they can keep it all up to date. {top} |
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Ballet FAQs |
You can find this in a number of other places but here is a direct link. Nearly everything you wanted to know about ballet (though with a bit of a US slant at times). {top} |
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Ballet Newsgroup (alt.arts.ballet) |
The Newsgroup (alt.arts.ballet or aab for short) tends to be US dominated and can be more than a little esoteric at times and with lots of junk posts to boot. An affiliated UK version also started. But we have tended to give up on Newsgroups generally because of there unreliability in handling messages; there are times when you get to see some answers but have not a clue what the question was! At that stage we set up our own postings page. But many people enjoy aab and you need to make your own mind up! {top} |
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Dance Service |
Set-up as a resource for UK professionals - and others - interested in modern dance. The site is constantly changing and evolving and includes many useful details if modern is your bag. Well worth monitoring. {top} |
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Dancing on a Line |
A New York site that covers dance as opposed to just ballet. I have to say that I recognise few of the dancers named but I include it here for its superb design - very clean and pared down. It will look at its best with the latest browsers that support frames, Java etc - that also means it can take a while to load. Do have a look though. {top} |
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