The Dream rehearsal (The Royal Ballet)

Guest Principal Ballet Master Christopher Carr rehearses Frederick Ashton's The Dream with Marcelino Sambé and Luca Acri. Find out more at www.roh.org.uk/productions/the...
Frederick Ashton’s The Dream is based on William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The ballet had its premiere in 1964 as part of a Royal Ballet programme commemorating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth. It was performed alongside Kenneth MacMillan’s Images of Love and Robert Helpmann’s Hamlet - both also based on works by Shakespeare. The roles of Oberon and Titania were created for Anthony Dowell and Antoinette Sibley, marking the beginning of their enduring and celebrated dance partnership.
Ashton captures all the comic confusion of Shakespeare’s play in inventive choreography. The high-spirited misadventures of the two pairs of mortal lovers combine with the humorous cavorting of Bottom, who dances en pointe after being transformed into an ass. The ballet culminates in a powerful pas de deux for Oberon and Titania, which moves through a stormy conflict of wills to a harmonious union. Felix Mendelssohn’s incidental music for the play, including the well-known Overture, Scherzo, Nocturne and Wedding March, provides a perfect partner to Ashton’s choreography.

[@altongrimes]

Christopher Carr is fascinating to watch with beautiful articulate instruction. The Royal Ballet is surely fraught with the very highest degree of professionalism. This series is a great treasure.

[@bewareofpenguin]

I'm getting stressed out just watching- hearing it once and preforming immediately.. you all are just incredible (plus those floaty leaps!)

[@YvonneFrindle]

Abby Kite This coaching session was presented at a public Insights event. You can be pretty sure they weren't learning it for the first time… (But agree - incredible nonetheless!)

[@marilynsitaker4198]

Yeah, I would pay just to see Christopher do the walk through. He's phenomenal.

[@bloobabbebo]

I love rehearsal videos, more please!

[@AlejandroGarcia-ek3uy]

Marcelino is fantastic, such a great dancer.

[@kayleecromling7132]

yo, marcelino has some hops. major hang time. it's almost like he had to force his body to land or else it would have floated up there for ages.

[@YvonneFrindle]

"Quick glissade and one of those jobbies there" :)

[@jankoraven]

This role always looks so amazingly difficult!

[@suzannebarton777]

Marci is just amazing - those jumps!!

[@balletovic]

Great dancers 👍🏻

[@avesraggiana]

More videos featuring that dreamboat, Alexander Campbell, please!!!

[@Kimihiroy]

Wow!

[@carlottabrianza7372]

I mean this nicely ... Christopher Carr sounds like a Dalek

[@alfredskilton]

is there any way we could see highlights from the scenes de ballet rehearsal that was broadcast on world ballet day? that was the highlight for me.
the ashton clique > the macmillan clique :)

[@valeriajurado1038]

Pretty