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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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David Jays

London City Ballet at Sadler’s Wells review: a classy and refined comeback

Classy, reflective, nicely turned out – Princess Diana brought all these qualities to her patronage of London City Ballet during the 1980s.

The company closed in 1996, but resurrected by new artistic director Christopher Marney after almost 30 years, LCB displays those same attributes. The first programme of its new era is undeniably refined if unadventurous and emotionally a bit samey.

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