RECENT DANCE Trinity of Angelin Preljocaj, Lukás Timulak and Jirí Kylián at the Royal Opera

Claes Wahlin sees the Trinity with the Royal Ballet

Under the collective name slightly loose trinity– Trinity – Three half-hour samsas ballets at the Royal Opera program with premiere on Fridays. There is still a spirit / angel in Angelin Preljocajs Annunciation (Bebådelsen), father and son of Jiří Kyliáns Wings or wax (after the myth of Ikaros) and perhaps the only premiere of the evening, Lukáš Timulaks Totality in pieceswhoever captures human life between heaven and earth. The three pieces are executed against black background walls.

Preljocajs Annunciation At 20 years old on the neck and despite the embarrassed and inspired choreography of the Renaissance, he did not age without hesitation. Stéphane Roys electroacoustic music, moving between deliveries, Vivaldi and the kind of hot industrial mills capable of curing kidney stones in the crowd makes it even more so. Since the first of 1995, for example Peter Sellars choreographed the saint with much more power of suggestion.

Timulaks Totality in pieces that the myth of Ikaros becomes a kind of starting point for the desire of the dancers to avoid weight loss. It will be the individual and the collective, the conditions of creation where sixteen dancers and 512 solar circle lamps are built from a kind of fractal atmosphere. I do not know how clear the idea is, here is a nice flow. The repetitive music makes small deviations from the model that harmonizes with the movements of the dances across the stage. Starting from the coréography of the set unisona, a soloist or a couple creates something that was not before.

Jiří Kyliáns Wings or wax From 1997 is without a doubt the hardest work. Here, the choreography is gentle, the four couples in search of naive optimism are exaggerated by the unconscious gravity of the ground, where the one raised gets the focus rather than the one who raises it. Music from Biber, cage, ice cream and Bach rests as easily as Ikaro's dream, and unlike other ballets, Kylians believes that 25 minutes are a moment of nostalgia too short.

Solo performances are generally good Jérôme Marchands powerful ease Totality in piecesso Nathalie Nordquists obvious scintillation and agility or Desislava Stoevas precision in Wings or wax.

The question is however about the ballet leader Nicolas Le Riche is the right one to continue Johannes Öhman Successful repertoire politics between the new and the sustainable. A little new tonight, everything is not old fashioned.

November 3, 2018 4:59 p.m.