Royal Opera House, LondonJoy is hard to sustain when fate is fickle and Jack the Ripper is waiting in the wings in the Royal Ballet's triple billSerenade was first performed in 1934 at White Plains, New York by students of the fledgling School of American Ballet. It was George Balanchine's first work with American dancers, and as well as being one of the best loved of his ballets, is a work of resonant significance. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM on May 17, 2014