Former Birmingham Royal Ballet Principal Joseph Cipolla joined Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet (now BRB) in 1986 and danced principal roles in many of the Company's productions including Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Coppélia, Romeo and Juliet and The Nutcracker.
A favourite with audiences, Joseph was nominated for a prestigious Olivier Award in 1993 and was invited to perform in the 1994 and 1995 Olivier Awards ceremony. He appeared in Margot Fonteyn's The Magic of Dance and A Streetcar Named Desire shown on Channel 4.
Jospeh Cipolla will create the role of De Guiche in Cyrano and Robert Tewsley will be one of the dancers cast in the title role. Robert will also perform in Symphony in Three Movements and Stravinsky Violin Concerto.
Robert Tewsley studied at The Royal Ballet School and has danced as a Principal Dancer with some of the finest dance companies in the world including the National Ballet of Canada, Stuttgart Ballet, The Royal Ballet and New York City Ballet.
David Bintley's new production of Cyrano tells the heartbreaking story of one man's truly self-sacrificing devotion for the woman he loves and the Stravinsky programme continues BRB's celebration of the remarkable creative collaboration between George Balanchine and Igor Stravinsky.
Both programmes will be performed at the Birmingham Hippodrome before touring to Salford, Plymouth and Sunderland. Cyrano will also be performed at the New Theatre, Oxford at the end of March. -- www.brb.org.uk
Posted January 27th, 2007 by ruzik_tuzik
