Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui new work, Medusa, opens at The Royal Ballet this evening, together with revivals of Christopher Wheeldon’s Within the Golden Hour and Crystal Pite‘s ballet exploring the refugee crisis, Flight Pattern.
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Medusa is his first work for The Royal Ballet.
Crystal Pite’s ballet is a moving exploration of the refugee crisis, from the plight of millions of displaced people to individual human relationships.
Choreography: Crystal Pite
Music: Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
Set designer: Jay Gower Taylor
Costume designer: Nancy Bryant
Lighting designer: Tom Visser
Flight Pattern. Artists of the Royal Ballet. ROH, 2017. Ph. Tristram Kenton.
Graham Spicer, aka 'Gramilano', is a writer, director and photographer based in Milan. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy. His articles have appeared in various publications from Woman's Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the Danza in Italia column for Dancing Times magazine. Graham was the historical advisor on Codice Carla, the 2023 documentary on Italian ballerina Carla Fracci.
Graham also works as a dance photographer, and his photos have appeared in many books, theatre programmes, and magazines, including Dancing Times, Dance Spirit and Ballet2000, as well as all the major Italian newspapers.
He is a member of the Dance Section of The Critics’ Circle.
