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Dance

Modern dance vs Shakespeare

Christopher Wheeldon's take on The Winter's Tale straddles categories, sometimes uncomfortably

19 April 2014

9:00 AM

19 April 2014

9:00 AM

The Winter’s Tale

Royal Opera House, in rep until 8 May

In a dance world that has chosen to dispense with stylistic and semantic subtleties, ‘narrative ballet’ and ‘story ballet’ are often used as synonymous. Yet there are differences — and major ones at that. In a ‘narrative ballet’ it is the choreography that carries the story. Each movement idea is thus conceived in relation to the dramatic demands of the thread and charged with meaning.

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