Ballet Changed My Life: Ballet Hoo!

2006•1h 0m•7.0/10

Documentary

Ratings

🎬TMDb

7.0/10(1)

Channel 4 is joining forces with Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB), and Youth at Risk for the first time to set Birmingham and Black Country youth a challenge of a lifetime. Do they have what it takes to perform the MacMillan production of Romeo and Juliet live on stage, to a packed audience, with a cast of professional dancers?

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Production

Diverse Productions

Language

EN

Status

Ended

First Aired

September 20, 2006

Last Aired

September 20, 2006

Networks

Channel 4

Where to Watch

Region US · Lang EN

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Seasons & Episodes

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Season

E1

1

Air date: 2006-09-20

Four-part television fly-on-the-wall documentary series which follows the collaboration between Birmingham Royal Ballet and Youth at Risk, which specialises in the care and rehabilitation of disadvantaged young people, to mount Kenneth MacMillan’s staging of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet.

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