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The Royal Ballet - Viscera/Infra/Fool's Paradise

Royal Opera House, West End
From: Saturday, 3rd November 2012
To: Wednesday, 14 November 2012

Our Review: starstarstarstar

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Our Review: starstarstarstar

Vanessa Keys - 6 November 2012

If there was any doubt Liam Scarlett was put on this earth to make movement, the London premiere of his second main stage work Viscera has effectively elevated the 25-year-old Royal Ballet wunderkind to consummate choreographer. Sharing equal billing with two of Britain’s greats – Wayne McGregor and Christopher Wheeldon – Scarlett’s Viscera opened the Royal Ballet’s newest triple bill with the kind of wild abandon that some may argue can only come with youth.

Pulses are set racing from the get-go. A purely animalistic affair verging on the edge of sinister, Viscera’s stripped-back set and lush, saturated lighting proves the perfect environ for the dancers to explore the awkward, vulnerable, imperfect moments of our humanness. 

There’s a thrilling informality to Scarlett’s choreography; spontaneous group sequences skitter into solos which spin-off into an ethereal pas de deux that moulds th...

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Liam Scarlett (Choreographer)
Lowell Liebermann (Music)
Liam Scarlett (Costume)
John Hall (Lighting)
Wayne McGregor (Infra) (Choreographer)
Christopher Wheeldon (Fool's Paradise) (Choreographer)


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