After an absence of 30 years Jerome Robbins's great work Dances at a Gathering makes an exciting return to The Royal Ballet. To solo piano works by Chopin, ten dancers explore the potential of dance itself through shifting relationships that also reflect the moods of the music's mazurkas, waltzes and études. There's a strong contrast in the second work of the programme, The Dream: with Shakespeare's story of a midsummer's night, Mendelssohn's delightfully delicate music and Frederick Ashton's ever-popular choreography. Within its evocative woodland setting, Oberon and Titania play their games with the unwitting mortals, while the comic confusions of love are aggravated by Puck.

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