Powerhouse Ballet's Romantic Ballet Workshop
Sara Horner and Members of the Company On Sunday 24 Sept 2023, we combined our September company class from Sara Horner with Jane Tucker's intensive workshop on La Sylphide . We enjoyed the workshop so much that we have decided to rehearse it over the next few weeks and offer it to Dance Studio Leeds's Celebration of Dance at the Chroma-Q Theatre in Leeds on 25 Nov 2023. Even though it is set in the British Isles La Sylphide is performed much more frequently outside the United Kingdom than in it. English National Ballet has recently added it to its repertoire and Scottish Ballet has a variation by Sir Matthew Bourne but all the other performances that I have seen have been by foreign companies. The one that sticks in my memory is Queensland Ballet's (see A Dream realized: the Queensland Ballet in London 12 Aug 2015 Terpsichore). For those who do not know the ballet I have written a brief primer and linked to a performance of the whole work by the Royal Danish