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Georgina Butler is an editor, a dance writer and a ballet teacher.
Georgina Butler is an editor, a dance writer and a ballet teacher.
London Children’s Ballet is on a mission to inspire the pursuit of excellence and change lives through dance. As both a performance company and a registered charity, it produces and stages a new ballet… View Post
Northern Ballet captivates theatregoers with vibrant parties and impassioned partnering in The Great Gatsby. An invitation to this lavish narrative ballet, set in an era of dreaming and dancing, is the perfect way to… View Post
Everyone is invited to a sparkling revival of Northern Ballet’s The Great Gatsby at Milton Keynes Theatre this month. This Jazz Age ballet swings through the Roaring Twenties, bringing the lavish lifestyle and complex… View Post
Anybody searching for a little bit of glitter in the grey needs to strut, stride or simply stroll into a performance of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie. This colourful production is a lesson on how… View Post
Sun beams are smiling and rainbows are shining! A good morning follows an evening spent watching Singin’ in the Rain. Life is rather stormy of late, but this week’s offering at Milton Keynes Theatre… View Post
Dust off your glad rags, step into your highest heels and pass it on that coming-of-age musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie visits Milton Keynes Theatre this month. The show, which is about an openly… View Post
Singin’ in the Rain, the classic toe-tapping musical that gave bad weather a good name, returns to Milton Keynes Theatre this month. Hailed a success at Chichester Festival Theatre and critically acclaimed in the… View Post
Life is sweeter when dance takes centre stage and the sugar rush from Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! certainly leaves audience members on a delicious high. Bourne devised his dance-theatre interpretation of the fantasy ballet in… View Post
Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! arrives for performances in Milton Keynes from Tuesday 15 February and theatregoers can expect a feel-good treat. Choreographer Sir Matthew Bourne’s whimsical dance-theatre take on the traditional coming-of-age Christmas ballet retains… View Post
Dreamgirls loudly and proudly delivers spectacular vocals, a reminder to let your soul sing and enough sparkle to brighten up the dreariest of days. This glittering, award-winning musical uses gutsy performances from its stars… View Post
Award-winning musical Dreamgirls is on the road for its first UK tour and performances in Milton Keynes start this month. The show, which will visit Milton Keynes Theatre for a two-week run from Tuesday… View Post
Fee-fi-fo-fum, panto is back at Milton Keynes Theatre and the long-awaited Jack and the Beanstalk is gold-standard entertainment for everyone! After so many restrictions and changes of direction in the real world, the only… View Post
Happy World Ballet Day 2021! Today is World Ballet Day 2021 and this year the celebration is going to be the biggest and best yet. A record-breaking 51 dance companies, across six continents,… View Post
Bittersweet romantic comedy musical Waitress exuberantly proves the power of pie without sugar-coating life’s complexities and disappointments. Protagonist Jenna Hunterson is passionate about baking and dreams up a new pie for every occasion. Trapped… View Post
Discover what baking can do when Waitress serves up a delicious confection of peppy songs, romance, drama and comedy at Milton Keynes Theatre. The smash-hit show is stopping off in the new city from… View Post
The 7 Fingers convinces us to enjoy the ride in Passagers, an incredible show that combines high-flying circus skills with evocative dance, music and storytelling. We have all been performing a balancing act during… View Post
Creative circus company The 7 Fingers will thrill audiences in Milton Keynes with performances of Passagers on 24 and 25 September. The Canadian collective, which merges acrobatics and physical skills with dance, multimedia, music… View Post
Trailblazing arts collective The 7 Fingers will showcase its signature blend of circus and dance at Milton Keynes Theatre this week. Dance Consortium, which presents the best international contemporary dance to audiences across the… View Post
Happy World Ballet Day 2020! World Ballet Day 2020 is here to remind us to make the most of any opportunity to celebrate. This is such a strange year, but “ballet” remains my… View Post
‘Social Disdancing’ is just one of the many unusual expressions that have been added to our everyday vocabulary in recent weeks. Since efforts were intensified to curb the global spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), we… View Post