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Dance

I miss the faint hiss of a spinning foot: Royal Ballet – Live reviewed

14 November 2020

9:00 AM

14 November 2020

9:00 AM

The Royal Ballet: Live

Royal Opera House

Ballet lovers driven square-eyed by a drip feed of livestreaming and archive footage have been pining for the patter of tiny satin feet. Last month the UK’s big ballet companies began to emerge from hibernation, playing small-scale work to thin, socially distanced houses. Some, such as Birmingham Royal and English National ballets, took the opportunity to broaden their audience’s conservative tastes with otherwise tricky-to-shift programmes of new work.

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