Sharon Eyal and Gail Behar's R.o.s.e: innovative, but disappointing

Dancers in R.o.s.e by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar

By Graham Watts, 13 July 2025

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“so loud that my ears are still ringing with a low-pitched siren, two days later”

Reviewed at Sadler's Wells East, London on 10 July 2025

R.o.s.e (Sharon Eyal, Gai Behar)

Maria Grazia Chiuri, Costume Designer

Alon Cohen, Lighting Designer

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***11

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****1

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****1

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Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo presents three equally riveting ballets in a triple bill of abstract works from Christopher Wheeldon, Sharon Eyal/Gai Behar and Jean-Christophe Maillot.

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Graham Watts

Graham Watts is a freelance dance writer and critic writing regularly for Dancing Times, Dance Europe, Danza Europa, and many more publications. He regularly writes features for Sadler’s Wells, London Coliseum and La Scala. Chairman of the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle in the United Kingdom and of the UK National Dance Awards he has interviewed many of the greatest names in dance including Maya Plisetskaya, Vladimir Vasiliev, Boris Eifman, Alexei Ratmansky, Andris Liepa, Sir Peter Wright, David Bintley and Dame Gillian Lynne. When not involved in dance Graham is a keen fencer, and has captained the British Sabre team.