Big Ballet, September 2008

In the Theatre

A ballet like no other ever seen in the UK before, Amande Concerts UK presents The Big Ballet, an ensemble of 16 Corps de Ballet dancers, each weighing no less than 17-Stone and united in a common cause; not to lose a single pound.

From Russia’s Ural mountains, a region from where Tchaikovsky himself hails, The Big Ballet formed in 1994 and set out to deliberately and, above all, self-confidently challenge accepted social standards in a world where pursuit of slenderness and beauty seems obsessive. The dancers courageously and imposingly prove that grace, elegance, charisma and nimbleness is not the demesne of the “thin”, proudly presenting their voluptuous yet surprisingly sinuous and flexible figures.

£18.50 £16.75 £15.50