The Royal Ballet: The Cellist / Dances at a Gathering (As Live)

THE CELLIST

Cathy Marston choreography 
Philip Feeney music
Cathy Marston and Edward Kemp scenario
Hildegard Bechtler set designer
Bregje van Balen costume designer
Jon Clark lighting designer
Andrea Molino conductor

DANCES AT A GATHERING

Jerome Robbins choreography
Fryderyk Chopin music
Joe Eula costume designer

Cathy Marston has previously been an Associate Artist of the Royal Opera House and Director of Bern Ballett, and is much in demand internationally. The inspiration for her first work for The Royal Ballet Main Stage is the momentous life and career of the cellist Jacqueline du Pré.

Jerome Robbins’s elegant and elegiac classic forms the second part of the programme. This exercise in pure dance for five couples, set to music by Chopin, is a masterpiece of subtlety and invention. 

Running time: c. 2h 30m inc. intervals.