Christopher Saunders
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Biography: Christopher Saunders is a British dancer. He trained at The Royal Ballet School. He entered the The Royal Ballet in 1983. He was promoted to Soloist in 1991 and to Principal Character Artist in 1997. He appointed Ballet Master in 2001 and Rehearsal Director in 2017.
Movies
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
Kenneth MacMillan’s passionate choreography for Romeo and Juliet shows The Royal Ballet at its drama...
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The Royal Ballet: Mayerling
Inspired by dark and gripping real life events, this Royal Ballet classic depicts the sexual and mor...
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The Nutcracker - The Royal Ballet
The Royal Ballet brings their annual presentation of The Nutcracker to life, streamed in cinemas thr...
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ROH Live: The Nutcracker
Tchaikovsky’s much-loved music is matched to a story of magic on Christmas Eve, and the journey of C...
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A Month in the Country
Ashton gracefully reimagines Turgenev's play A Month in the country as a one-act ballet where all th...
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Royal Opera House: Coppélia
A classic returns to the Royal Ballet repertory with Ninette de Valois’ charming and funny Coppélia–...
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Don Quixote (The Royal Ballet)
Carlos Acosta's first venture directing one of ballet's 19th century classics was eagerly anticipate...
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La Bayadère
Marius Petipa’s exotic ballet set in legendary India is a story of love, death and vengeful judgemen...
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Swan Lake
Yolanda Sonnabend's Faberge'-inspired designs evoke a world of Imperial Russia in Anthony Dowell's a...
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Coppélia (The Royal Ballet)
Coppélia, a mechanical doll made by the toy-maker Dr. Coppelius, is so life-like that some believe s...
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Giselle
The peasant girl Giselle discovers the true identity of her lover Albrecht – and that he is promised...
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Royal Opera House: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
A full-length ballet created by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon for the Royal Ballet at the Royal...
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The Nutcracker
The young Clara creeps downstairs on Christmas Eve to play with her favourite present – a Nutcracker...
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The ROH Live: The Dream / Symphonic Variations / Marguerite and Armand
The Dream: Frederick Ashton’s delightful interpretation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream i...
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Romeo and Juliet (Royal Ballet)
Given its premiere by The Royal Ballet in 1965 with Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn dancing the ti...
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Anastasia
Royal Ballet Principal Natalia Osipova dances the title role in Kenneth MacMillan’s haunting ballet,...
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The Sleeping Beauty
The Sleeping Beauty holds a special place in The Royal Ballet’s repertory. It was the ballet with wh...
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Royal Opera House: Don Quixote
Don Quixote and his servant Sancho Panza set out to have a chivalrous adventure. They meet Kitri and...
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Royal Opera House: The Sleeping Beauty
The wicked fairy Carabosse is furious she wasn’t invited to Princess Aurora’s christening. She gives...
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Concerto / Enigma Variations / Raymonda Act III (Royal Ballet)
From The Royal Ballet’s classical origins in the works of Petipa, to the home-grown choreographers w...
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The Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker
Clara is given an enchanted Nutcracker doll on Christmas Eve. As midnight strikes, she creeps downst...
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
At a garden party on a sunny afternoon, Alice is surprised to see her parents’ friend Lewis Carroll ...
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La Fille Mal Gardée (The Royal Ballet)
Frederick Ashton's La Fille mal gardée (The Wayward Daughter) is one of the choreographer's most joy...
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The Sleeping Beauty
Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty is one of the best loved of classical ballets, combining in a sing...
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