Following a highly successful tour in 2024, Ballet Central returns in 2025 with a brand-new company of dancers and a revitalising programme of classical ballet and contemporary dance.

Ballet Central is delighted to announce the first piece in the 2025 summer programme as Frederick Ashton’s miniature masterpiece Foyer de Danse (1932). Animating Edgar Degas’ iconic paintings and pastels of Paris Opera Ballet dancers, this will be the first staging of the ballet in over 90 years, following its recreation by Ursula Hageli and Christopher Newton for The Frederick Ashton Foundation.

In contrast, Ballet Central presents contemporary works by Dickson Mbi and Thick and Tight. Vastly energetic, Mbi takes influence from his success as a Hip Hop dancer and his signature popping style. Thick and Tight’s theatrical work Famous for Being Famous will combine dance, theatre and mime, The piece is a meditation on greed, vanity and the absurdity of a species bringing about its own undoing. The final instalment in this vibrant new programme is Kristen McNally’s modern ballet, sure to charm audiences and showcase the talent of Central School of Ballet’s graduating cohort of 2025.

THEATRE ROYAL, BURY ST EDMUNDS

Tickets: From £12