Sara Veale

Sensual and silky: the Royal Ballet returns to Covent Garden

Plus: a fascinating portrait of four recent dance creations

Vadim 'the Dream' Muntagirov in Frederick Ashton's Dance of the Blessed Spirits at Covent Garden. Image: © Tristram Kenton, courtesy the Royal Opera House 
issue 27 June 2020

Wayne McGregor’s Morgen! and Frederick Ashton’s Dance of the Blessed Spirits are the first pieces of live dance — streamed in real time from an empty auditorium — to come out of Covent Garden since March. Unaware that recordings would be available afterwards, I clung to these fleeting displays with the panic of grandparents on a Zoom call, furiously, helplessly slapping the screen whenever it buffered.

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