Topic: Darcey Bussell

Arlene Phillips has been axed from Strictly Come Dancing, it was confirmed today.. Instead the BBC revealed it has signed Alesha Dixon and Darcey Bussell as judges on the hit show. Former winner Alesha Dixon, 30, has been brought in to replace ...

Ballerina Darcey Bussell finds retiring the right step

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Forty, footloose and fancy free. Former British ballerina Darcey Bussell has no regrets at retiring at the peak of her career or moving to Australia to escape her life in the limelight.Bussell, who was principal ballerina at The Royal ...

Classic sparkle

Mixed Bill The Royal Ballet I have always been intrigued by the way different artists, and even entire companies, respond to works created for other performers and other artistic contexts. Not everyone will agree with that, though. All this to explain why ...

Darcey gets off on wrong foot

The surprising thing about Viva La Diva is not that Darcey Bussell agreed to do it but that Katherine Jenkins steals most of her thunder. Unlike Bussell, who spent almost 20 years in the rarefied world of classical ballet, Jenkins is a ...

Royal Ballet/Triple Bill

The British ballerina is retiring from the Royal Ballet, and by chance or choice her exit number is one of Kenneth MacMillan's earliest, most demanding ballets. If she'd danced Ashton's Cinderella or Balanchine's Symphony in C, or even ...
Actually, it isn't five minutes but 20 years since Bussell joined Covent Garden. Instead we have Bussell exiting at her peak, with a final performance at Covent Garden on 8 June, and this whistle-stop retrospective of her career organised by old ...

First night of Bussell's farewell to ballet show

Darcey Bussell, the last world-class ballerina Britain has produced, starts her farewell to fans tonight. The show, Darcey Bussell - Farewell, broke box office records for ticket sales in a single day. The 38-year-old was born in London and trained at White Lodge ...

From Blush Ball to election call for Emily Maitlis

BBC newsreader Emily Maitlis played Cinderella as she dashed from her position as host of the annual Blush Ball at the Natural History Museum, to the BBC studios where she fronted a live-stream election result program throughout the night. Emily Maitlis, Kirstie ...

Darcey and Katherine reverse roles for new show

One is the most popular opera singer of the day, the other the finest ballerina of her generation. Now, Katherine Jenkins and Darcey Bussell are to star in a musical, Viva La Diva, inspired by their childhood heroines, in which at one ...

I hope my daughters won't become ballerinas

At first I don't recognise Darcey Bussell for she has utterly changed how she looks. She also said she couldn't believe it was my last season with the Royal Ballet. Bussell is now 37 years old with two children, Phoebe ...