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Approximate timings
The performance lasts approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes, including one interval.
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Monday 9 November, 7:30 pm
Thursday 12 November, 7:30 pm
Tuesday 17 November, 7:30 pm
Guidance
Content suitable for all.
Children under the age of five are not permitted into our theatres. Children over age of five must have their own ticket and sit next to an accompanying adult.
Generous support from
Exceptional philanthropic support from
Royal Ballet and Opera Principal The Julia Rausing Trust
Generous philanthropic support from
John McGinn and Cary Davis, Ida Levine, John and Susan Burns, The Fonteyn Circle and the Royal Opera House Endowment Fund
The 2026/27 Royal Ballet Season is generously supported by
Aud Jebsen
Programme
Experience two starkly contrasting yet equally exquisite visions of humanity.
Visionaries: Robbins and MacMillan includes
Creatives
The artists and creatives behind the production
Dances at a Gathering
Choreography
Music
Costume designer
Lighting designer
Song of the Earth
Choreography
Music
Text from The Chinese Flute
Designer
Lighting designer
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Dances at a Gathering
Jerome Robbins’s Dances at a Gathering opens the mixed programme. Set to some of Fryderyk Chopin’s most familiar piano melodies, Robbins’s buoyant choreography from 1969 underpins a series of plotless dances, each a portrait of human connection and together a joyful kaleidoscope of shifting moods.
Robbins’s Dances at a Gathering was brought into the repertory of The Royal Ballet in October 1970 by Principal Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan, who was then Director of the Company.
Song of the Earth
MacMillan’s Song of the Earth completes this programme. In this 1965 work of sculptural beauty, MacMillan’s elegiac and earthbound choreography expresses metaphysical themes in Gustav Mahler’s score, such as the transience of life and the imminence of death, drawing on 8th-century Chinese poems that inspired both composer and choreographer.
Dance highlight: Pink/Purple pas de deux
Gallery
Accessibility and resources
There is lift access and there are step-free routes to over 100 seats in the Stalls Circle, Balcony and Amphitheatre. Some seats in the Stalls Circle, Balcony, Amphitheatre and the Donald Gordon Grand Tier are accessed by 9 steps or fewer. There are 10 steps or more to access seats in the Orchestra Stalls.
You can use the assistive listening systems in our auditoriums. Surtitles, captions and translations in English are displayed on screens above the stage and around the auditorium.
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See our Accessibility page for more information or view a visitors guide (PDF, 12.0 MB).
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