For the next few weeks, #ThrowbackThursday is going to be a little different. Occasionally I will still feature a ballet, but in the lead up to this year's studio seminar (Beauty and the Beast - don't miss out!), I'll be recapping our past seminars with a few photos from the archives. First up is our original Wizard of Oz seminar in 2002. This was the very first seminar; we had emphasis on singing as well as dancing. Enjoy this glimpse of the archives - they don't come out ve

It's Tutu Tuesday! (And I'm back at uni...) Here's Diana Vishneva in Swan Lake. - Selene

This week's Spotlight Saturday features Marianela Nunez, who has just celebrated twenty years with the Royal Ballet. Marianela Nunez was born in San Martin, Argentina, on March 23 1982. She began dance classes at 3, and was accepted into the Instituto Superior de Arte of the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires at the age of 8. At 14, she joined the corps de ballet of the Teatro Colon. In 1997, she toured Uruguay, Spain, Italy and Japan as the partner of Maximiliano Guerra, before to

This week's #ThrowbackThursday features John Cranko's ballet Onegin. Alina Cojocaru as Tatiana and Bennet Gartside as Prince Gremin, Royal Ballet Based on the novel Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, Onegin, like Anna Karenina, is essentially a tragedy. It follows the lives of Tatiana and Olga Larina, and their involvement with Eugene Onegin. In Act I, the family are all anticipating Tatiana's birthday; Lensky, a poet and Olga's fiancé, arrives from St. Petersburg with his f

It's Tutu Tuesday! Here's the Bolshoi Ballet in The Nutcracker. - Selene

This week's Tutu Tuesday features American Ballet Theatre dancer Alessandra Ferri in Giselle in 1987. - Selene

Today's Spotlight Saturday honours Elisabetta Terabust, an Italian prima ballerina who recently died aged 71. Elisabetta Terabust, 'Don Quixote', Teatro alla Scala (La Scala Theatre) Elisabetta Terabust was born in Varese, Italy, on August 4 1946. She began her training at the Rome Opera's Ballet School, under the direction of Italian ballerina Attilia Radice. Upon graduating, she joined the Rome Opera Ballet, where she was promoted to principal in 1966 and Etoile (prima) in

This week's #ThrowbackThursday features Ashton's ballet Marguerite and Armand. Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, Royal Ballet, 1963 Marguerite and Armand was created in 1963 by choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton, to music by Franz Liszt, specifically for dancers Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev. The ballet's inspiration was La Dame aux Camelias (The Lady of the Camellias), by Alexandre Dumas (son of the famous Dumas who created The Three Musketeers), and it was influenced b

It's Tutu Tuesday! Here's Kono Mai performing a variation from Raymonda at the 2007 Prix de Lausanne. - Selene