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Press & Media

Our Communications team are available to assist with press and media enquiries in relation to Northern Ballet and the Academy of Northern Ballet.

Please get in touch to request information, images, interviews, photography and filming, press tickets and photo calls. Requests from production companies should also be directed to the press team.

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News and Press Releases
Northern Ballet's Pinocchio
19.05.21

Pinocchio announced

Northern Ballet has announced the world première of Pinocchio, a new children’s ballet choreographed and directed by Gavin McCaig.
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Joseph Taylor and Antoinette Brooks Daw in Dangerous Liaisons.
28.04.21

Northern Ballet returns to touring this June

This June, we plan to return to touring for the first time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A group of pupils in a school hall watch as a dance teacher addresses them. The dancer teacher's back is to the camera, she is pointing across to the right of the image.
15.04.21

Rise Blog: Year Two

Susanne Burns, an Independent Consultant who works with the Paul Hamlyn Foundation (PHF), shares her experience of Rise year one.
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Nortehrn Ballet dancers rehearse performing as Swans
02.04.21

Culture Recovery Fund Grant

We are delighted to have been awarded a further £372,000 from the Culture Recovery Fund.
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Matthew Topliss and Sarah Chun in Northern Lights. Photo Emily Nuttall
01.02.21

New Digital Season Announced

We are thrilled to launch a new digital season including three new original dance films.
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Dancer leaps holding light in his hands.
01.02.21

Northern Ballet Awarded £600k for Digital Projects

Northern Ballet has been awarded £600,000 following a successful application to Garfield Weston Foundation’s highly competitive Weston Culture Fund.
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Lorenzo Trossello and Minju Kang dancing in States of Mind
28.01.21

Dancing Nation

An excerpt of Northern Ballet's States of Mind features in a three part celebration of dance with Sadler's Wells and the BBC.
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PRincess Beatrice clasps the memory of Liko holding her in his arms
10.12.20

Victoria wins South Bank Sky Arts Award

Victoria, a ballet by Cathy Marston, has won the prestigious dance award at a socially distant filmed ceremony in London.
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Ballet Black dancers
28.10.20

Black History Month

As we approach the end of Black History Month, we wanted to reflect on some of the content we've been engaging with and highlight a few upcoming events from our dance colleagues.
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Dancers stretching at the barre in the Academy's adult class. Photo Kathie Tiffany.
08.10.20

Help tackle employee wellbeing with new Breaktime Barre Workshops

Our new Employee Wellbeing Workshops help to address a national rise in anxiety reported in the British workforce.
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Dangerous Liaisons
23.09.20

Northern Ballet returns to live performance

We are delighted to announce that next month we will be returning to the stage for our first live performances since the initiation of lockdown in March.
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Minju-Kang-and-Lorenzo-Trossello-in-ROOTS.Photo-Emily-Nuttall
28.07.20

Burberry Inspire and American Ballet Theatre

We've teamed up with American Ballet Theatre to make four new dance films as part of the Burberry Inspire programme.
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