Visionaries: Robbins and MacMillan - Royal Ballet and Opera

Visionaries: Robbins and MacMillan - Royal Ballet and Opera description

Visionaries: Robbins and MacMillan at the Royal Opera House offers a rare opportunity to experience two of the greatest ballets of the twentieth century in a single evening. Dances at a Gathering, created by American choreographer Jerome Robbins to the piano music of Frédéric Chopin, brings an irresistible warmth and spontaneity to the stage — ten dancers weaving a tapestry of movement that feels both timeless and utterly alive. Set alongside it, Kenneth MacMillan's Song of the Earth — his response to Gustav Mahler's transcendent song-cycle — draws audiences into a world of elemental beauty and poignant feeling.

Robbins reinvented the relationship between ballet and popular culture, bringing a distinctly American energy to the form through works including West Side Story and Fancy Free. MacMillan, whose storytelling ballets Manon and Mayerling remain cornerstones of the Royal Ballet's identity, brought a psychological depth and emotional rawness to classical dance that was entirely his own. Together in one programme, their contrasting visions make Visionaries: Robbins and MacMillan an evening that no lover of dance should miss.

Playing at Royal Opera House (venue info)