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Dance

Still far from perfect but chaps will like it: Royal Ballet’s Frankenstein reviewed

16 March 2019

9:00 AM

16 March 2019

9:00 AM

Choreographer Richard Alston is now 70 and his latest outing at Sadler’s Wells is a greatest hits medley. As with all clip shows, some of it is super, some soporific and some merely meh. We begin with Martin Lawrance’s Detour, first performed last year. The piece is a powerful hybrid of fluid dance and martial arts: kung fu meets pas de deux.

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