The New English Ballet Theatre (NEBT) is an exciting young dance company in its 7th season and with the endorsement of Dame Darcey Bussell as patron , you can expect captivating and accessible works from them. For this 100th anniversary of the First World War armistice this November they presented Remembrance with choreography from the acclaimed Wayne Eagling and set to the music of Handel's Ode for St Cecilia's Day. It is simple and beautifully told story of Marie Rambert, the founder of the famous Ballet Rambert, and her husband Ashley Dukes who she meets while he was a soldier on leave in 1917. When he is called back to the battle front the Ballet wonderfully explores the fears of the women left behind through dance.
The set design by Nina Kobiashvili uses a combination of mirrors, windows and projection to set the scenes in a London dance studio, Waterloo station and near the battlefield. These simple settings evocatively add and support the dance performed before them and builds to a moving and appropriate finale of remembrance with fields of poppies and red drapes.
