The production has since been to New York's Metropolitan Opera, and its return to the ENO reaffirms its dramatic potency, with giant papier-mache puppets, video projections and eloquently choreographed movement.
Mr. Allan, an American who danced in the National Ballet of Canada, was then artistic director of the Riverside Ballet Theater in California and has since then choreographed for the entertainment industry as well as for ballet.
There is a little of that in "Klavierstück," the best piece he has choreographed since I've been watching the company.
He gained renown as a standout member of the final troupe of Merce Cunningham, and the handful of works he has choreographed since then have all been intriguing, succeeding and failing in interesting ways.
Even before the Olympics, Ms. Nichol said, Ms. Salé and Mr. Pelletier, for whom she has choreographed since 1999, had "started going into the ballet studio, looking at what they can become next year and in the future".
Since then, she has performed, choreographed and directed in Yiddish and English.
Since 1998, she has also choreographed and directed several operas; and in recent years she has increasingly exhibited her drawings.
Since the 1980s she has also choreographed and performed her own works.
(Mr. McGregor has been the Royal's resident choreographer since 2006; Mr. Wheeldon, who trained at the Royal Ballet School, has frequently choreographed for the company).
Ms. Tharp, who has created some of the most innovative and popular work in contemporary dance since she formed her first company in 1965, has conceived, choreographed and directed "Movin' Out," a dance musical based on 31 songs by Billy Joel.
