Northern Ballet: Dangerous Liaisons review " more sedate than seductive
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe plot convolutions of De Laclos' classic novel, and a shortage of real passion, hold back David Nixon's adaptation Name recognition is important for ballet companies: make a ballet of a familiar story, get bums on seats, stay afloat. But that doesn't mean a known title always makes a good ballet. Northern Ballet's David Nixon first tackled Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' epistolary novel Les Lia…