Dancing in the streets Royal Ballet stars rock to new Rolling Stones song
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Dancers perform outside locked-down venues in a film accompanied by Living in a Ghost Town and co-created by Mick Jagger’s partner, Melanie Hamrick
Summer’s here and, with the UK’s arts venues closed, the time is right for dancing in the street. At least, that’s the spirit in which a new charity video has been made featuring a lineup of Royal Ballet dancers performing to Mick Jagger’s unmistakable rasp. Their accompaniment is not Jagger and Bowie’s famous duet, however, but the Rolling Stones’ recently released new song, Living in a Ghost Town, with its prescient lines: “Life was so beautiful / Then we all got locked down.” Continue reading...