Steps Back in Time review – the magic of young Kenneth MacMillan

Barbican Pit, London
A programme of MacMillan’s early works by his former ballerina Viviana Durante is brimming with tricksIn the early 1950s, Kenneth MacMillan saw little in the world of ballet that was a true reflection of himself. Scottish and working-class, he struggled to find his place within the opera house establishment; part of a generation of angry young men, he struggled to find value in a repertory that seemed to be little more than “window dressing”. Once he turned