The ENB director has pulled the story forward to the Crimean war, based the female lead on Florence Nightingale " and adapted the choreography for today's more slender dancers When people talk about modernising classic ballets, it usually means taking popular stories and creating new steps for them. But Tamara Rojo is trying the opposite. In her first creation for English National Ballet, Raymonda, she's keeping the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03PM on January 4, 2022