The latest buzz production in a near-swaggering 2025 programme at Royal Ballet is Perspectives: Balanchine, Marston, Peck – an enervating triptych which the Standard loved and typical of the spirit of adventure happening down in Covent Garden. The piece by the aforementioned Marston – Cathy Marston – is a particular highlight, a new one-act ballet entitled Against the Tide which is set to Benjamin Britten’s Violin Concerto which was written just before the outbreak of World War 2.
Her last piece on the Main Stage at Royal Ballet & Opera, The Cellist, about Jacqueline du Pré was notable for its intense emotional heft, and this new one carries similar intensity but comes from a very different approach, more abstract that the ballets that have made her name.
