- Ceremony of Innocence
- The age of anxiety
- Aeternum
I had been to a working rehearsal of the last named and so new it quite well by the time of attending the live performance. As a trio, the works were the ROH's Remembrance Day Programme. Aeternum, choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon to music by Benjamin Britten, starred Marianela Nunez and Federico Bonelli and was most arresting for me in the breaking out of the female from a circle of dancers and the stage as an empty no man's land.
The opening piece, Ceremony of Innocence, again features Benjamin Britten's music but the choreography of Kim Brandstrup is very different. The cast features Edward Watson engaging with his younger self in an elegy to lost youth.
The Age Of Anxiety, a new work by Liam Scarlett, to the music of Leonard Bernstein had a cast that included Steven McRae, Based in a bar where three men vie for the attention of a woman, the work also featured the talents of Laura Morera, Bennett Gartside and Tristan Dyer. However, I must admit I never quite connected with it and I do not seem to have been alone in that response.
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