21 May 2014. Serenade, Sweet Violets and DGV at ROH

A very good value triple bill, capped off in my view by DGV. Serenade is a Balanchine, apparently non-narrative piece, for which I could not help wanting to find the narrative; then Sweet Violets is most definitely a narrative piece but you cannot make much headway without reading a synopsis; finally, DGV, feeling the most contemporary, choreographed by Wheeldon to the music of Mike Nyman and gaining the lion's share of the applause. Sweet Violets, looking back on it, seems unremittingly gloomy both in its story of murdered prostitutes and its staging in half-darkness.