Excerpts from Cleopatra featuring
Martha Leebolt as Cleopatra
and Javier Torres
as Caesar.
Filmed by Zsolt Sándor.
In a world ruled by men, this courageous and compulsive woman overturned convention and changed the course of history.
Cleopatra's legacy has inspired generations. Now, composer Claude-Michel Schönberg (Miss Saigon, Les Misérables) and Northern Ballet Artistic Director David Nixon OBE, bring her astounding story to the stage in this must-see ballet for 2011.
As Cleopatra's star rises once more, book now for Northern Ballet's unique retelling of this remarkable woman's story.
Cleopatra is listed as one of dance highlights of 2011 in the Guardian. Read more about The Best Dance in 2011.
David Nixon talks Cleopatra
“I've been interested in Cleopatra and that period for a long time. Two-thousand years later she is as popular as she ever was, in fact more so. I think the legend and the mystery of the woman grows rather than lessens.