Ballet Changed My Life: Ballet Hoo!

Released: 2006-09-20

Runtime: 60 minutes

Episode Overview

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.

Series Overview

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?