An oath beneath the moonlight 🤍🦢 Today, we mark the birthday of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, whose music gives Swan Lake its emotional pulse, and carries the romance, longing and tragedy at the heart of the ballet. In the White Swan pas de deux, Odette and Prince Siegfried meet in a moment suspended between tenderness and heartbreak, set against one of ballet’s most beloved scores. 🎥 Marianela Nuñez and Vadim Muntagirov #SwanLake #Tchaikovsky #TheRoyalBallet #Ballet #RoyalBalletAndOpera

Accompanied by @School of American Ballet students, Soloist India Bradley radiated elegance and effervescence in the Waltz of the Golden Hours in Act III of George Balanchine's Coppélia. #indiabraley #coppelia #balancine

Caring for Costumes – Mayerling #TheRoyalBallet #Mayerling #CaringForCostumes #Ballet

When the tights + shoes are a perfect match 🥰 #ballerina #pointeshoes

A meeting of movement and imagination 🩰 For So Are We: León and Lightfoot, Sol León and Paul Lightfoot bring their distinctive creative partnership to The Royal Ballet for the first time, shaped by decades of collaboration and a shared drive to keep pushing movement somewhere new. Captured in rehearsal, dancers move through choreography that is fluid, dynamic and charged with intensity, as Salle de danse and Shoot the Moon begin to take shape in the studio ahead of ppening night. 📅 So Are We: