Performer: Dick Bird

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This autumn, British choreographer Alistair Marriott is collaborating with National Ballet of Japan on a new full-length narrative ballet, adapted from Charlie Chaplin’s timeless silent film City Lights. With a score taken from Chaplin’s own compositions, we discover what it takes to create a new ballet on this scale.