The English National Ballet performed four pieces, three overtly related to World War I, together with Firebird which seemed included for no obvious reason. I thought the pieces were, by and large, moving, though in an obvious way - soldiers leaving and rejoining their mutition-worker women in No Man's Land; soldiers being mowed down in the trenches in Second Breath.
Clement Crisp seemed to hate it and wrote an unsupportive review in the FT. Most other critics seemed more positive.
I thought Akram Kahan's piece - Dust - was exceptional as was Laurretta Summerscales realisation of the part of Firebird.
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