"MacMillan's vision has been vital in shaping The Royal Ballet's style and repertory, and what better way to appreciate his art than with this rare chance to experience three contrasting works in a single performance. Abstract, dramatic, humorous - this programme gives a wonderfully varied introduction not just to MacMillan's work but to the beauty and dramatic power of ballet itself. Concerto, to Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto, contrasts moments of exuberance and elegiac reflection. The Judas Tree places a single woman among 13 men to enact a harrowing event that is recognizably contemporary but with biblical overtones. Elite Syncopations completes the programme with a sparkling evocation of a dance hall that brings ragtime rhythms to the dance, and a ragtime band to the stage.
From The Royal Ballet’s classical origins in the works of Petipa, to the home-grown chor...
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When a hip hop violinist busking in the New York subway encounters a classical dancer on s...
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A former professional dancer volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school syste...
A pair of star-crossed dancers in New York find themselves at the center of a bitter rival...
A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical perf...
Zander Raines, a dazzling and tempestuous young choreographer, gives the break of a lifeti...
The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue...