Sadler's Wells, LondonBalanchine's 1947 ballet is pressured and punchy, but the rest of this mixed programme shrinks to caricature and uneven pasticheIn Theme and Variations, Balanchine took the lexicon of 19th-century ballet and plugged in a very modern voltage of energy and speed. History became an elegant but ferociously challenging present tense in this 1947 ballet " and it's a pleasure to see the aplomb with whi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:27AM on October 19, 2015