Enchanting Alessandra Ferri returns in Wayne McGregor's Woolf Works

Alessandra Ferri and William Bracewell

Joseph Sissens

Alessandra Ferri and artists of The Royal Ballet

By Graham Watts, 02 March 2023

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“an arresting and largely continuous dramatic impact”

Reviewed at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London on 1 March 2023

Woolf Works (Sir Wayne McGregor)

The Royal Ballet

Koen Kessels, Conductor

Company Wayne McGregor, Set Designer

Moritz Junge, Costume Designer

Lucy Carter, Lighting Designer

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Ciguë, Set Designer

Anush Hovhannisyan, Soprano

Alessandra Ferri, Dancer

Gary Avis, Dancer

Yasmine Naghdi, Dancer

William Bracewell, Dancer

Francesca Hayward, Dancer

Calvin Richardson, Dancer

Anna Rose O'Sullivan, Dancer

Joseph Sissens, Dancer

Fumi Kaneko, Dancer

Nicol Edmonds, Dancer

Mayara Magri, Dancer

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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.