Visionaries: Robbins and MacMillan

Visionaries: Robbins and MacMillan Tickets

Visionaries: Robbins and MacMillan brings together two landmark 20th-century ballet works in a powerful mixed programme exploring humanity, community and connection. Featuring Jerome Robbins’s Dances at a Gathering alongside Kenneth MacMillan’s Song of the Earth, this double bill offers two profoundly different yet equally compelling visions of the human experience.

About Visionaries: Robbins and MacMillan

This mixed programme pairs two of the most influential choreographers of the 20th century. Dances at a Gathering (1969) by Jerome Robbins is a series of abstract, characterful dances set to Fryderyk Chopin’s piano pieces, capturing fleeting moments of human connection in an atmosphere of spontaneity and warmth.

Song of the Earth (1965) by Kenneth MacMillan offers a stark contrast in tone and scale, drawing on Gustav Mahler’s symphonic song cycle and ancient Chinese poetry to explore mortality, impermanence and emotional transformation through sculptural, expressive movement.

Facts and Critical Acclaim

• Features two iconic works by Jerome Robbins and Kenneth MacMillan.
• Includes Chopin’s piano compositions and Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde.
• A rare opportunity to see two defining ballets of the 20th century in one programme.

Dances at a Gathering Creatives

• Choreography - Jerome Robbins
• Music - Fryderyk Chopin
• Costume designer - Joe Eula
• Lighting designer - Jennifer Tipton

Songs of the Earth Creatives

• Choreography- Kenneth MacMillan
• Music - Gustav Mahler
• Text from The Chinese Flute - Hans Bethge
• Designer - Nicholas Georgiadis
• Lighting designer - Jacopo Pantani