Steven McCrae

the royal ballet’s alice in wonderland

Lynne Lancaster / 29 January 2015

Instead of a traditional Nutcracker this year we are treated to a revival by the Royal Ballet of Christopher Wheeldon’s ALICE IN WONDERLAND first seen in 2011. Whilst perhaps a trifle overlong and unwieldy, this work is visually stunning with …

Ballet, Cinema

sleeping beauty

Lynne Lancaster / 23 April 2014

In this huge production by the Royal Ballet the dancing is superb, especially by the two leads. It has an extremely ‘traditional’ feel about it and is a 2006 attempt to reconstruct the famous 1946 Oliver Messell production that reopened …