Northern Ballet: The Great Gatsby " review by Judith Mackrell

Grand Theatre, LeedsStory ballets are the bread and butter of Northern Ballet's repertory, and it's easy to see why choreographer David Nixon was tempted by The Great Gatsby. The clothes, the jazz, the dance music, the fatal love affair " much of F Scott Fitzgerald's novel seems tailor-made for ballet. As a fiction, however, Gatsby works through a subtle balance of irony, concealment and point of view. It's all in th…

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