This was Tamara Rojo’s farewell to English National Ballet and to the UK. The charismatic artistic director is off now to San Francisco, leaving behind a company that is slightly poorer than she might have hoped (thanks to the Arts Council’s recent round of cuts) but infinitely richer artistically than when she joined a decade ago.
The reach of her transformative ambition is shown by the fact that the final work on this programme was a new version of The Rite of Spring (thrillingly played by a full orchestra) by the distinguished Swedish choreographer Mats Ek, someone who hasn’t made nearly enough work for British companies.
