Longtime music director of the New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein was a versatile composer fluent in jazz and modernism, the traditions of Jewish music and the Broadway musical. Known best for West Side Story, he left behind a rich and varied body of work. In this special celebration of Bernstein’s centenary, three leading Royal Ballet choreographers commemorate his range and danceability in a unique triptych. The sequence includes two world premieres by Wayne McGregor and Christopher Wheeldon, and a revival of Liam Scarlett’s The Age of Anxiety, set to Bernstein’s Second Symphony and inspired by W.H. Auden’s post-WWII poem of the same name.
Includes two 15 min intermissions.