Looking back at ballet’s past in order to understand its future

Ballet Ireland delves into the past with its new production about the evolution of ballet, Tutus and Beyond. The show travels from ballet’s earliest form, through to contemporary ballet, with the premiere of Ludovic Ondiviela’s Lost.

Opening the show is the romantic pas de quatre – the earliest classical form of ballet which was first danced in London in 1845.

Adorned in long pink tutus, flowers and pearls, four ...