The Tempest review – drowning in the past

Birmingham Hippodrome
David Bintley’s uninvolving new version of The Tempest is symptomatic of an identity crisis in British balletThe Tempest, David Bintley’s new work for Birmingham Royal Ballet, the company he has directed since 1995, is a grand-scale affair. There’s a specially commissioned score by Sally Beamish, and elaborate and fantastical designs by Rae Smith. There’s a sound designer, an effects team and a fly-by-wire consultant. And there’s Bintley’