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 The melancholy ending was a fitting farewell between ballerina and ballet. The heartmelting, beautiful Duo Concertant alone was worth the entire price of admission.

Sofia Coppola's film closed on a note of optimism. The message seemed to be: “Normality is just around the corner. We’re coming back.” 

The closing tableau of Symphony in Three Movements is a monument to geometric abstraction that lingers in the mind long after you leave the theater, much like the paintings of Piet Mondrian.

New York City Ballet impresses in the first of their Hear the Dance: Russia , with an evening dedictaed to Stravinsky and Balanchine programme. Performed at the David H. Koch Theater, in New York. 

How lucky I am to live in a city where I can head over to Lincoln Center and catch an entire evening’s worth of Balanchine ballets, performed by the stellar artists that make up New York City Ballet. This gift is not lost on me; I may be becoming a jaded New Yorker, occasionally cynical and impressed by little, but I feel quite a thrill attending the ballet.

The American Ballet Theatre return to the stage of Sadler’s Wells this week with two mixed programmes of 20th and 21st century ballet. The first programme, of four one act pieces, explores the relationship between music and dance, beginning and ending with a UK premiere.Seven Sonatas choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky, ABT’s artist in residence and former Bolshoi director, opens the programme.

Le Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris présente une nouvelle soirée néoclassique qui met à l’honneur trois générations de chorégraphes : Georges Balanchine, Jerome Robbins et les chorégraphes contemporains Alexeï Ratmansky et Justin Peck.