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Following its spectacular opening performance in 2023, which left audiences enthralled and wanting more, Birmingham Royal Ballet’s BRB2 returns in 2024 with more performances of Carlos Acosta's Classical Selection from some of the very best young dancers from around the world.
We're delighted to announce three of the five venues on the 2024 tour:
The Lighthouse, Poole
Saturday 18 May 2024, matinee and evening
Public booking: Friday 18 August
BRB Dancers' Circle booking: Wednesday 16 August, 10am
BRB Friends booking: Wednesday 16 August, 1pm
Derngate Theatre, Northampton
Saturday 25 May 2024, matinee and evening
Public booking: Friday 28 July, 10am
BRB Dancers' Circle booking: Thursday 27 July, 10am
BRB Friends booking: Thursday 27 July, 1pm
Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury
Tuesday 28 May 2024, matinee and evening
Public booking: Monday 7 August
BRB Dancers' Circle booking: Wednesday 2 August, 10am
BRB Friends booking: Wednesday 2 August, 1pm
The opening and closing venues will be announced shortly.
From sensational, heart-stopping moments to comic masterpieces, there’s instantly recognisable music and dance that will bring the house down. The show is full of sparkling classical highlights that include Frederick Ashton’s exquisite Rhapsody (Rachmaninov), created for Mikhail Baryshnikov and Lesley Collier, Carlos’s own temperature-raising Carmen (after Bizet), Ben Van Cauwenbergh's popular French chanson-inspired Je ne regrette rien (Edith Piaf) and Les Bourgeois (Jacques Brel), Carlos’s interpretation of Fokine’s The Dying Swan (Saint-Saëns), and spectacular pas de deux from Bournonville’s delightful La Sylphide, the explosive Diana and Actaeon, and the iconic Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky).
BRB2's 2024 tour is supported by David and Mary Laing, The Kirby Laing Foundation and The Linbury Trust
For exciting talent and breathtaking dance, Carlos Acosta's Classical Selection is THE show to see.
