The choreographer Cathy Marston is on everybody’s dance card these days. She makes ballets with stories sourced from literature—Lolita (2015), Jane Eyre (2016), Dangerous Liaisons (2017), Lady Chatterley’s Lover (2018)—you get the picture. It’s a trend with traction, as narrative seems to be returning to classical dance after decades of extreme abstraction. Marston’s ballet The Cellist (2020) is based on the life and artistry of the late cellist Jacqueline du Pré, who died from MS in 1987, at age 42. The ballet is paired with Anemoi, a work choreographed by Valentino Zucchetti, a first soloist with the Royal, during lockdown. He took his inspiration from the wind gods of Greek mythology. Both of these ballets won Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards for Best Classical Choreography. —Laura Jacobs