Royal Ballet – review

Royal Opera House, LondonWayne McGregor in hip collaboration with Mark Ronson and designer Gareth Pugh; the young and very promising Liam Scarlett making his first attempt at a narrative ballet; it's not surprising that hype has been building for weeks over the Royal's latest triple bill.Ironically, however, it's a revival of Christopher Wheeldon's Polyphonia (2001) that takes the honours. Wheeldon's ecstatic response to Ligeti, danced here by a scrupulous, passionate cast, exposes the excess ba...

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