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Bluffing Your Way in Ballet

Bluffing Your Way In Ballet pirouettes its fast-paced and irreverent way through the history of this most dynamic of performing arts, with stories, excerpts and dances from the ballet greats including Isadora Duncan, Anna Pavlova, Vaslav Nijinsky, Marie Rambert – and Darcey Bussell!

You’ll hear funny and moving stories from ballet’s leading performers:
🩰 Louis XIV of France who helped create the five positions of the feet
🩰Vaslav Nijinsky who beguiled audiences with his unbelievable mastery those leaps!
🩰 Margot Fonteyn and Rudolph Nureyev with their perfect dance partnership
🩰 Strictly Come Dancing’s Dame Darcey Bussell who brings Ballet and dance to new and larger audiences
…And more!

Recommended age 16+ – the show contains adult themes and the occasional use of strong language but is mostly just good fun!