Royal Ballet Artist in Residence Liam Scarlett rehearses his new ballet The Age of Anxiety with dancers Laura Morera, Steven McRae, Bennet Gartside and Tristan Dyer.
British choreographer Liam Scarlett was appointed The Royal Ballet's first Artist in Residence in 2012. His dark, probing narrative works for the Company – Sweet Violets on the main stage and Hansel and Gretel in the Linbury Studio Theatre – have won acclaim, and so too the unique language of movement exemplified in his abstract works such as Asphodel Meadows and Viscera.
In his new work for the Company Scarlett sets Leonard Bernstein's Symphony no.2, 'The Age of Anxiety'. Bernstein had an intense emotional response to Auden's poem, later writing 'When I first read the book I was breathless'. This deep personal resonance is married with Bernstein's instinctive sense of rhythm, which has made his music so attractive to choreographers. John Macfarlane, who collaborated with Scarlett on all his previous main-stage works for The Royal Ballet, creates the designs.
British choreographer Liam Scarlett was appointed The Royal Ballet's first Artist in Residence in 2012. His dark, probing narrative works for the Company – Sweet Violets on the main stage and Hansel and Gretel in the Linbury Studio Theatre – have won acclaim, and so too the unique language of movement exemplified in his abstract works such as Asphodel Meadows and Viscera.
In his new work for the Company Scarlett sets Leonard Bernstein's Symphony no.2, 'The Age of Anxiety'. Bernstein had an intense emotional response to Auden's poem, later writing 'When I first read the book I was breathless'. This deep personal resonance is married with Bernstein's instinctive sense of rhythm, which has made his music so attractive to choreographers. John Macfarlane, who collaborated with Scarlett on all his previous main-stage works for The Royal Ballet, creates the designs.
