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Bach to the future: the Royal Ballet's triple bill featuring Wayne McGregor - in pictures

Royal Ballet: The Art of Fugue
Tetractys – The Art of Fugue is Wayne McGregor's attempt to 'choreograph the intricate musical mathematics of JS Bach,' writes Judith Mackrell
Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian
Royal Ballet: The Art of Fugue
Steven McRae and Sarah Lamb in Tetractys – The Art of Fugue
Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian
Royal Ballet: The Art of Fugue
Edward Watson and Natalia Osipova perform 'a rapt, silken fusion of academic dance and McGregor's more sheering, postmodern style'
Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian
Royal Ballet: Gloria
Carlos Acosta in MacMillan's Gloria from the triple bill
Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian
Royal Ballet: Gloria
Sarah Lamb, Thiago Soares and Carlos Acosta in Gloria, an account of the horror of war
Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian
Royal Ballet: Gloria
Carlos Acosta and Sarah Lamb in Gloria Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian
Royal Ballet: Rhapsody
The third work in the bill is Frederick Ashton's Rhapsody
Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian
Royal Ballet: Rhapsody
Francesca Hayward and James Hay in Rhapsody. 'In Francesca Hayward's feathered lightness and soft, unguarded radiance, the Royal has a ballerina to watch,' writes Judith Mackrell Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian
Royal Ballet: Rhapsody
Francesca Hayward in Rhapsody. The Royal Ballet's triple bill is at Covent Garden until 15 February
Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian
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