★★☆☆☆Shobana Jeyasingh has been crafting brainy, usually pulse-quickening dances for nearly three decades, so it’s high time this UK-based choreographer’s company had a crack at presenting a full-length work on the main stage of London’s top international dance venue. True to form, Jeyasingh’s take on the classical ballet fantasy La Bayadère is shot through with her innate intelligence, instinct for composition and a typically astute choice of collaborators. Yet, despite such admirable qualities, this hour-long performance, an expansion of a production that originated in 2015, fails to develop fully the drama of its tantalising premise. You can’t fault Jeyasingh’s creative reach. She uses Marius Petipa’s antique love triangle, set in an extravagantly imagined India and first seen in St Petersburg in 1877, as a springboard…

Source: The Times October 18, 2017 11:03 UTC