Alices Adventures in Wonderland rehearsals The Card Scene ( The Royal Ballet)

The Royal Ballet rehearse the Card Scene from Christopher Wheeldon s Alice s Adventures in Wonderland, as part of, WorldBalletDay 2017. Find out more at Christopher Wheeldons Alices Adventures in Wonderland burst onto the stage in 2011 in an explosion of colour, stage magic and inventive, sophisticated choreography. Joby Talbots score combines contemporary soundworlds with sweeping melodies that gesture to ballet scores of the 19th century. Bob Crowleys wildly imaginative, eyepopping designs draw on everything from puppetry to projections to make Wonderland wonderfully real. Alice encounters a cast of extraordinary and instantly recognizable characters, from the highly strung Queen of Hearts who performs a hilarious sendup of The Sleeping Beautys famous Rose Adage to a playing card corps de ballet, a sinuous caterpillar and a tapdancing Mad Hatter. But the ballet does not avoid the darker undercurrents of Lewis Carrolls story: a nightmarish kitchen, an eerily disembodied C