NBT nominated for MEN award
November 13, 2008
Northern Ballet Theatre has been nominated for the 2008 Manchester Evening News Dance Award for performances in the city. The Leeds-based company has earned the nomination for performances of NBT artistic director David Nixon and Patricia Doyle’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Manchester’s Palace Theatre between 14th and 17th May.
After his previous productions The Three Musketeers and Madame Butterfly were respectively last year’s winner and a 2006 nominee in the category, Nixon was delighted to make another shortlist. “NBT was founded in Manchester in 1969, and as the company celebrates its 40th anniversary next year it’s fantastic that we maintain our relationship with Manchester,” he commented. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream has proved very popular with audiences up and down the country and I’m delighted the production and the performances by the company in Manchester have been recognised by the MEN Theatre Awards panel.
NBT’s relationship with Manchester is maintained chiefly through the annual week of performances that it gives at either the Palace Theatre or the Opera House. However, in 2007 it was further reinforced when the Palace Theatre played host to the world premiere of NBT’s The Nutcracker on 11 October.
NBT will face cosmopolitan competition at the MEN Theatre Awards ceremony on 2nd December, at Manchester’s Midland Hotel. As well as Sylvie Guillem and Russell Maliphant’s Push, St Petersburg’s Kirov Ballet has been nominated for its Don Quixote, as has Nederlands Dans Theater, all for performances at The Lowry, Salford.
-Simon Walker
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