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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
David Jays

Perspectives at the Royal Ballet review: a hurtling journey from Benjamin Britten to Sufjan Stevens

We search for stories – we can’t help ourselves. Put a person on stage and we wonder who they are. Two people and our eyes seek out a relationship. Add an ensemble and we ask just what kind of community this is.

Perspectives is a kind of blah title for the Royal Ballet’s triple bill – a classic, a premiere and a sassy New York hit – but what would you call a clutch of abstract-ish works with a teasing narrative undertow? Story Not Story?

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