Dark With Excessive Bright: the Royal Ballet’s giant leap into immersive dance – in pictures
The Royal Opera House’s Linbury theatre will be transformed for Canadian choreographer Robert Binet’s new show, where the audience can roam freely. Take a first look
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Robert Binet in rehearsals with Yu Hang and Leticia Dias at the Royal Opera House’s Fonteyn Studio
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Dark With Excessive Bright is a co-production with the National Ballet of Canada, where Binet is choreographic associate
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Binet’s work ‘imagines the invisible forces of the universe in human form, and captures the growth, decay, chaos and consistency that co-exist in the world’
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Dark With Excessive Bright will be staged in the ROH’s Linbury theatre
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Yu Hang in rehearsals. Seating will be removed from the Linbury theatre so audiences can move freely through the space
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Mariko Sasaki in rehearsals for Dark With Excessive Bright, which has music by Missy Mazzoli, set design by Shizuka Hariu and costumes by Thomas Tait
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The show has a lighting design by Simisola Majekodunmi
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Joseph Sissens, Mariko Sasaki and Denilson Almeida in rehearsals
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Robert Binet, left, watches Joseph Sissens
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Melissa Hamilton and Denilson Almeida
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Robert Binet, left, watches Marco Masciari and Leticia Dias. The show is part of the Royal Ballet’s festival of new choreography
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Robert Binet, arms raised, in rehearsals. Dark With Excessive Bright is at the Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, London, 10-20 February
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