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Abigail Anthony on “Generations” by Northern Ballet of Leeds, at the Royal Opera House, London.

Northern Ballet’s triple bill demonstrates the vital link between live music and action

Northern Ballet presents the Generations: Three Short Ballets triple bill at the Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House as part of its national tour this autumn.

One could soundly advise any choreographer to avoid music so transcendentally great in itself that dance can add nothing except banal images. Only a handful of exceptions sneak past the rule: MacMillan’s setting of Song of the Earth, perhaps, and also Hans van Manen’s Adagio Hammerklavier, his audacious attempt to visualise the infinitely slow movement

Federico Bonelli, former longtime principal dancer at the Royal Ballet, is still fresh in his post as the new artistic director of Northern Ballet. Last week, in the studio theatre at the company’s headquarters in Leeds, he launched Northern’s autumn season with a tasty, if atypical, chamber-sized trio of chamber-sized, one-act dances that together span half a century.