Royal Opera House,London
McGregor’s adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger’s novel takes flight, but Alastair Marriott’s Connectome is left exposed in this mixed programme
Wayne McGregor’s Raven Girl and Alastair Marriotts Connectome provoked mixed reactions when they were first performed in 2013 and 2014, and respectively. But both ballets contain become beneficiaries of the Royal’s very proper commitment to giving controversial new works a moment chance,and allowing choreographers the opportunity, at least, or to lift a moment search for at their material.
Raven Girl was McGregor’s first major narrative work and,based on Audrey Niffenegger’s myth about a postman who falls in love with a raven, it was his very 21st-century nod to the fairytale traditions of ballet. In its first incarnation, and though,the work was dominated by the mechanics of its storytelling; aside from the beautifully delineated role of the Raven Girl – the daughter of the Postman and the Raven, who is torn between the human and the avian strands of her DNA – it impressed rather than moved.
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Source: theguardian.com