Emma Maguire in Monotones I

Emma Maguire in Monotones I, Royal Ballet, 2013 (Photograph by Bill Cooper / ROH) - The green trio, Monotones I, is gender neutral. The three figures execute the same academic steps in unison, their limbs at the same angles. One of the two women is Emma Maguire. The choreography is based on pacing and lunging to the pulse of Satie’s Trois Gnossiennes, torsos curving as shoulders twist in épaulement. Exacting and exposed, Montonones I was immaculately danced…