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Pierrot Lunaire at Royal Ballet: Much to admire but the sexual politics need an update

4/5 Groundbreaking in 1962, Glen Tetley’s piece feels a little dated in some respects, but dazzles in others

Evening Standard

‘At first I was horrified by it!’: the Royal Ballet brings back 60s cult classic Pierrot Lunaire

Glen Tetley’s fantastical ballet, set to an atonal Schoenberg score, is finally returning to Covent Garden. Dancers Marcelino Sambé and Joshua Junker discuss how they came under its spell

The Guardian - UK

Manon review – Kenneth MacMillan’s 50-year-old masterpiece still bewitches

The Royal Ballet revisits the choreographer’s timeless rags-to-riches work, putting assorted casts through its finely tuned emotional wringer

The Guardian - UK

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Manon review – the Royal Ballet brings beauty to sordid snake pits of Paris

Kenneth MacMillan’s journey into a world of darkness is performed with consummate craft by a superb company

The Guardian - UK

Manon at Royal Opera House review: Kenneth MacMillan’s tragedy has never cut deeper

The unconventional but enduring ballet bites again

Evening Standard

On my radar: Marcelino Sambé’s cultural highlights

The Royal Ballet principal dancer on his favourite performance art, a surprising black comedy, and a musical that made him question everything

The Guardian - UK

The Cellist; The Limit review – a tale of two Royal Ballet dramas

Lauren Cuthbertson and Marcelino Sambé reprise their roles to glorious effect in Cathy Marston’s inspired paean to Jacqueline du Pré, while an adaptation of Sam Steiner’s hit play Lemons… feels squeezed

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Light of Passage at the Royal Opera House: Crystal Pite’s new work is deeply felt and long overdue

This ballet, expanded from the 2017 award-winner Flight Pattern, is tender and poetic

Evening Standard

The Car Man; Like Water for Chocolate review – two narrative delights

Matthew Bourne and Christopher Wheeldon bring masterly cinematic power to their adaptations of Bizet’s Carmen and Laura Esquivel’s 1989 novel

The Guardian - UK

Like Water for Chocolate review – Christopher Wheeldon’s delectable take on a magic-realist love story

Wheeldon choreographs Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel’s 1989 tale of food and forbidden passions into a fulfilling ballet full of buoyant movement and visually arresting coups de theatre

The Guardian - UK

Scènes de ballet/A Month in the Country/ Rhapsody review – an outstanding Ashton triple bill

In a showcase of works from across their founding choreographer’s career, the Royal Ballet prove their mastery of his technical and dramatic complexity

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