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Evening Standard
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David Jays

Woolf Works at the Royal Opera House review: Wayne McGregor’s masterful ballet is a heartbreaker

Time holds the key to Wayne McGregor’s masterful ballet, drawn from the life and work of Virginia Woolf. The past, softly layered with memories. The present, crowded with possibilities. The future, stretching out hopelessly.

Woolf Works was made in 2015 for the Italian ballerina Alessandra Ferri as her career began its extraordinary second wind – and now, at nearly 60, she resumes the central role (alternating with Natalia Osipova and Marianela Nuñez).

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