Eden Court, InvernessThere's a sequence in Act 2 of Scottish Ballet's Alice when the young heroine is lured into the toils of a giant spider, and it's hard not to see this as a metaphor for Ashley Page's struggle to translate Lewis Carroll's story into the language of ballet. In the web, silk-wrapped, one can imagine the desiccated bodies of other choreographers to attempt the task, Derek Deane and Christopher Wheeld…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM on April 30, 2011