David Nixon

The Three Musketeers is a tale that pervades our culture, ever since its first outing as a historical novel, written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. Since then, it has been turned into numerous films, a BBC television series, and now, a ballet.  “the gorgeous spectacle expected of...

Very few fairy tales pose the challenges to staging that The Little Mermaid does, and I must confess I was rather confused as to how a story partially set underwater where the protagonist has a fish’s tail instead of legs would work as a ballet. However, I was wrong...

No beastly performances were present at this beautiful production of Beauty and the Beast. Northern Ballet, and particularly, David Nixon have outdone themselves with this visually spectacular interpretation of a well-known fairy-tale. The two-hour performance was seemingly faultless, thanks to the well-oiled machine behind the incredibly emotive and highly...