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English National Ballet comes to Tate Britain – in pictures

English National Ballet's week-long residency at Tate Britain celebrates Pablo Picasso's collaboration with the Ballets Russes and coincides with the Tate's Picasso & Modern British Art exhibition. The residency culminates in a performance of three specially-devised ballets on 2 March

guardian.co.uk, Friday 2 March 2012 17.26 GMT

English National Ballet's residency at Tate Britain coincides with the Picasso & Modern British Art exhibition. Photograph: David Levene

Inspired by Picasso's costume and set design work with the Ballets Russes in 1919, the residency saw dancers rehearsing in the gallery. Photograph: David Levene

The residency also celebrated English National Ballet's Beyond Ballets Russes season. Photograph: David Levene

Picasso collaborated with the Ballets Russes from 1916, designing several ballets including Parade and Pulcinella. Photograph: David Levene

The week-long residency included participatory workshops, talks, ballet classes, rehearsals and performances. Photograph: David Levene

It also gave audiences the opportunity to draw and paint from life. Photo: David Levene

Members of the audience sketched a ballet class in the Duveen Gallery at Tate Britain. Photograph: David Levene

The programme featured the full company of 67 dancers taking their morning ballet class along a barre stretching the length of the gallery. Photograph: David Levene

Many workshops and demonstrations highlighted the links between dance and the visual arts. Photograph: David Levene

The artistic culmination of the residency is three ballets commissioned by English National Ballet especially for Picasso & Modern British Art. Photograph: David Levene

The ballets will be premiered in the Duveen Galleries during Late at Tate Britain on Friday 2 March. Photograph: David Levene