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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 · Feb 11

‘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 · Jan 30

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 · Feb 25, 2024

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 · Oct 19, 2022

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 · Jun 19, 2022

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 · Jun 3, 2022

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

The Guardian - UK · May 1, 2022