The Royal Ballet

BALLET TO BROADWAY: WHEELDON WORKS

[Mixed Programme: 1 Revival, 3 New Productions]

Choreography: Christopher Wheeldon

Music: Joby Talbot | Joni Mitchell | Keaton Henson | George Gershwin

Running time: 180 minutes (Runtime and intervals TBC)

Sensuous contemporary ballet meets the energy of musical theatre in four distinctive short works. Fool’s Paradise, The Two of Us, Us, An American in Paris: four works showing the remarkable choreographic range of The Royal Ballet's Artistic Associate, Christopher Wheeldon.

After 20 years Odysseus finally returns to Ithaca, where he finds his wife held prisoner by suitors vying to be king and his son facing death at their hands. To win back his family and all he has lost, Odysseus must rediscover his strength.

A disillusioned Englishman who goes to work in a school in a divided Argentina in 1976 finds his life transformed when he rescues an orphaned penguin from the beach.