A ballet about painted surfaces, Christopher Wheeldon’s new Strapless never digs beneath them. It’s the true story of a scandalous portrait: John Singer Sargent’s too-revealing picture of society ...

Mark Monahan never really stood a chance. In the Sixties, his mother danced for five years with what was then the Royal Ballet Touring Company; meanwhile, his father was the first and still ...

The acclaimed choreographer explains the origins of Strapless – his new ballet about Madame X, the It Girl of 19th-century Paris who was destroyed by a daring portrait When I moved to New York 23 ...

This Christopher Wheeldon programme includes the premiere of one-act ballet Strapless, whose scandalous heroine Madam X is all attitude and frocks Christopher Wheeldon is getting very clever at ...

This rousing mixed bill from the Royal Ballet opens with William Forsythe’s notoriously demanding work The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude. From the opening bars onwards it continues at a rapid, ...