Once you step outside it starts to look faintly ridiculous. Meanwhile, Scarlett's 'Sweet Violets', inspired by painter Walter Sickert and Jack the Ripper, is an impressive move into narrative work ...

Credit: Photo: Alistair Muir Sex, violence, partial nudity, loud rock music, bad language – this new triple bill from the Royal Ballet ... Liam Scarlett's Sweet Violets, on the other hand ...

Danced to a Rachmaninoff trio, Sweet Violets concerns the artist Walter Sickert, his paintings and his fascination with the Ripper murders. Scarlett throws in characters from various late ...

If Carbon Life does little to engage the imagination, then the other new ballet on the bill, Liam Scarlett’s Sweet Violets to Rachmaninov’s Trio élégiac, perhaps demands too much of it.