English National Ballet is inviting online audiences around the world to join the company’s 75th season celebrations with ENB@75 from 4 to 13 July 2025, featuring performance excerpts, classes and rehearsals, as well as interviews, archive footage and behind-the-scenes insights.
Performance extracts include Akram Khan’s Giselle with a recorded post-performance Q&A with English National Ballet’s Artistic Director Aaron S Watkin and rehearsal director Mavin Khoo, Le Corsaire, Take Five Blues, Swan Lake in-the-round and the 2024 production of Nutcracker with an extended extract from the Sky Arts documentary Nutcracker: Backstage with English National Ballet.
Classes will include a company class, an online class for ballet beginners taught by Associate Artist James Muller and an advanced masterclass taught by Repetiteur and English National Ballet’s Associate Artistic Director Loipa Araújo featuring Martinho Santos and Thalina Chapin.
Later this year, in collaboration with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, there will be screenings of Derek Deane's Swan Lake in-the-round and Akram Khan’s Giselle in British Embassies and Consulate Generals in cities including Guatemala, Ho Chi Minh and Jakarta.