A Post Script from New Zealand

In The All Blacks of the Art World are coming to Leeds I wrote that the Royal New Zealand Ballet will visit the UK in the Autumn and they are bringing two of their works to this country: Giselle which they are dancing in Edinburgh, High Wycombe and Canterbury and a mixed bill entitled The Anatomy of a Passing Cloud which they will perform at the Stanley and Audrey Burton Theatre in Leeds and the Linbury in Covent Garden.

The mixed bill will contain several ballets from Salute which opened in Wellington on 22 May and is now in Christchurch on the second leg of the company's tour of New Zealand. @tweeting_nik who lives in New Zealand kindly brought the following video by the Royal New Zealand Ballet to my attention:

@ShippLea and @jelterps - thought you might enjoy this! https://t.co/yj5QTgMnD6

— Nik (@tweeting_nik) May 28, 2015

Check out some footage of our premiere in Wellington and make sure you get your tickets http://www.rnzb.org.nz/shows-and-events/salute/dates-venues/
Posted by Royal New Zealand Ballet on Wednesday, 27 May 2015

She also kindly offered to identify the individual works shown in the clip which offer I gratefully accepted:

@jelterps No worries! In order: Dear Horizon, Soldier's Mass, Salute (which I think was your favourite) and Passchendaele.

— Nik (@tweeting_nik) May 28, 2015

Clearly, we in this country are in for a treat. I am grateful to the company for publishing this clip and providing an embed code and to @tweeting_nik for her commentary.