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50 shades of beige: English National Ballet's Modern Masters at Sadler's Wells, reviewed

The William Forsythe, however, makes up for the other two works. Plus there’s a new look to the Northern Ballet’s Romeo and Juliet

21 March 2015

9:00 AM

21 March 2015

9:00 AM

English National Ballet — Modern Masters

Sadler’s Wells

Romeo and Juliet

Northern Ballet

My moment of the week was stumbling into the shocking, fantastical Cabinet of Curiosities in the Alexander McQueen show at the V&A. On the walls were tier upon tier of dresses, shoes and headdresses, feathered, leathered, beaded, painted, razored, or tenderly embroidered with a fairy needle. Rotating at the centre of the room was the Spray Paint Dress that a dazed Shalom Harlow wore while robots ejaculated paint over her in 1998.

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