Royal Opera House, LondonAshton's Scènes de Ballet comes as close to perfect as any ballet I know. Its choreographic patterns evolve with a miraculous, skin-prickling precision, and underlying the scintillating elegance of its surface style is a drama of dark, burnished romanticism. Ashton may present his dancers as glamorous party people, yet they inhabit an emotional landscape that is almost mythical in its scale …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:58AM on May 30, 2011