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Carlos Acosta, considered one of the world’s greatest male ballet dancers, is the newly appointed Director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet. His tantalising autumn triple bill of ballet performances has just been announced and will fall across two venues: Sadler’s Wells in London (27—8 October) and the Birmingham Hippodrome (1—3 October). The mixed bill will include, among other performances, Uwe Scholz's , a huge work that fills the stage with 36 dancers in a celebration of Beethoven's music 250 years since the composer's birth.

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