Royal Ballet’s Balanchine and Robbins celebration is fresh and uplifting – review

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The celebration of American choreographers George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins is full of bravura technique and gala showstoppers

Francesca Hayward and William Bracewell in ‘Dances at a Gathering’, which builds a powerful sense of connection between the performers’s celebration of American classics makes a fresh and uplifting night of dance. Across works by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, it goes from cool grace to tenderness. The dancers respond to Chopin’s mazurkas and polonaises with hints of folk steps, half-sketched or danced full-out, like fragments of cherished memory.

 

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