Birmingham Royal Ballet today announces the all-new programme Carlos Acosta's Ballet Celebration: Diaghilev and the birth of Modern Ballet for BRB2’s third UK tour in 2025.

Described as 'pinsharp and personality laden', BRB2 brings together some of the world's very best young dancers, the international stars of the future, to share their incredible talent.

Carlos Acosta has created a brand-new gala production for this year, featuring highlights from the repertory of Serge Diaghilev's troupe of rebel dancers, musicians and designers who fled Russia to set a new standard in creativity that inspires and resonates across the world of dance to this day.

The repertoire of this next generation of ballet includes The Firebird, Spectre de la Rose, Les Sylphides and Scheherazade.

The work will pay tribute to Mikhail Fokine and the seminal works he created at the beginning of the last century. The choreography, sets and costumes will remain faithful to Fokine’s original vision but will be adapted to fit smaller stages. As with last season’s ‘Classical Selection,’ the repertoire will showcase and develop emerging talent and present important repertoire in venues around the UK that don’t always have access to classical ballet. The music will be a recording made by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia exclusively for this tour, presented in theatre with live piano.

Carlos Acosta's Ballet Celebration shows at Birmingham Hippodrome on 6 May 2025. For more information, visit: brb.org.uk​