A programme of sheer variety and breadth draws the wonderful potential of ballet into one great event, under the masterful baton of Barry Wordsworth, Music Director of The Royal Ballet.
Classic ballet in Ashton's evocative response to Ravel's haunting La Valse, brings waves of dancers into an elegant ballroom. This gives way to the contemporary with the world premiere of a new work by Kim Brandstrup. The Royal Ballet Principals, the music of François Couperin refracted through Thomas Adès and film projection are fused together with Brandstrup's characteristic sense of nuance and suggestion which evokes an intense relationship tinged with the shadow of Louis XI V and Versailles.
MacMillan's focus in Winter Dreams is not the narrative of Chekhov's Three Sisters, but instead a portrayal of the psychological passions, ambitions and sorrows of its own characters. Tchaikovsky provides the music not just for this, but also for the final work, Balanchine's technical tour de force, the dazzling Theme and Variations, which brings the whole Company together for a fitting finale.
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