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BRB2: Carlos Acosta’s Ballet Celebration review

“Alexandra Manuel catches the eye”
ReviewsMay 12, 2025by Nicola RaynerSadler's Wells East, London
Les Sylphides in BRB2: Carlos Acosta’s Ballet Celebration – Diaghilev and the Birth of Modern Ballet at Birmingham Hippodrome. Photo: Tristram Kenton
Les Sylphides in BRB2: Carlos Acosta’s Ballet Celebration – Diaghilev and the Birth of Modern Ballet at Birmingham Hippodrome. Photo: Tristram Kenton
Emerging talent of BRB2 brings youthful energy to Ballets Russes classics

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Nicola Rayner is a freelance journalist and author. Until August 2022, she was the assistant editor of Dancing Times, and she edited Dance Today, a magazine specialising in ballroom, Latin and social dance, from 2010 to 2015. Nicola has written for The Guardian, The Independent and Time Out and she is the author of two novels, The Girl Before You and You and Me. 

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