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The Cellist / Dances at a Gathering (The Royal Ballet)

The Cellist / Dances at a Gathering (The Royal Ballet)

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 25, 2020

Runtime

2h 5m

Genres

Music

Original Title

The Cellist / Dances at a Gathering (The Royal Ballet)

Production Companies

Royal Opera House

Director

Ross MacGibbon

Description

The Royal Ballet presents the world premiere of Cathy Marston's first work for the Company on the Main Stage alongside a revival of Jerome Robbins’s timeless classic of pure dance. The Cellist is a one-act ballet about British cellist Jacqueline du Pré, from her discovery of the cello through her celebrity as one of the most extraordinary players of the instrument to her frustration and struggle with multiple sclerosis. Jerome Robbins's Dances at a Gathering is a fluid exercise in pure dance for five couples, set to piano music by Fryderyk Chopin.