JOHN McINALLY welcomes a rigorous class analysis of the history and exploitation of sectarianism by the Scottish ruling elite
Edifying entertainment
WILL STONE applauds a quartet of dance vignettes exploring the joys and sorrows of the human condition

Encounters: Four Contemporary Ballets
Royal Opera House
THESE four innovative contemporary ballets explore the human condition, in very different ways, through movement.
Choreographer Kyle Abraham, who founded AIM – a dance company with a mission to create work about black and queer history and culture – introduces the quartet of dances with The Weathering.
First staged in 2022, eleven dancers capture the joys and sorrows of love and loss to composer Ryan Lott’s moving score and Dan Scully’s golden-washed lighting, with paper lanterns dotting the stage.
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