Ismene Brown

Woolf haul

Plus: something peculiar, unsettling and sensational from Mark Baldwin and Gavin Higgins for Rambert Dance

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  • Woolf Works

    Royal Opera House, in rep until 26 May

  • Dark Arteries

    Sadler’s Wells

People have been saying that Wayne McGregor’s new Woolf Works has reinvented the three-act ballet, but not so. William Forsythe reinvented the three-act ballet 20 years ago with Eidos: Telos, a mesmerising masterpiece that I found myself recalling as I watched the McGregor. There are many formal similarities: the search for sense through words, the woman facing darkness and death, the central act in period costume, spectacular light, video, ambitious structures on stage, and so on.

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