How much weight of plot can dance carry? Balanchine famously insisted that there are no mothers-in-law in ballet, and masters such as Fokine, Massine and Ashton largely confined the dimensions of their narratives to the back of a postage stamp. Yet in A Month in the Country Ashton also proved that ballet can communicate delicate
Joby Talbot reflects on the creative process behind his new ballet, a collaboration with Chris Wheeldon for The Royal Ballet, based on Laura Esquivel's Like Water For Chocolate