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Front Row: Marianela Núñez, Charlotte Perriand exhibition review, Latitude Festival

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Royal Ballet Principal Ballerina Marianela Núñez on Sleeping Beauty at the ROH.

Royal Ballet Principal Ballerina  Marianela Núñez on performng Sleeping Beauty at the ROH and a review of the Design Museum's Charlotte Perriand: The Modern Life exhibition.

Ninety years since Dame Ninette de Valois founded what we know now as the Royal Ballet and 75 since her post war production of Sleeping Beauty, Tom Sutcliffe talks to Marianela Núñez,  Principal Ballerina at the Royal Ballet about  Sleeping Beauty's significance in the Royal Ballet's repertoire, the demands of playing such an iconic role and the challenges of rehearsing at home during lockdown.  

We explore The Design Museum in London’s exhibition, Charlotte Perriand: The Modern Life, It's a retrospective exploring the work of the pioneering designer, who, alongside better known male architects like Le Corbusier, was a defining influence on modernist furniture and interiors. The exhibition charts Perriand’s journey through the machine aesthetic to her adoption of natural forms, and later from modular furniture to major architectural projects. Design critic Corrine Julius joins us to review.

This weekend the BBC will celebrate “The Glastonbury Experience 2021” in place of the cancelled festival. But Latitude has just announced that in just over one month’s time it will be the first major festival to go ahead this summer. We speak to Festival director Melvin Benn about how they intend to make it work in the current Covid-affected environment. 

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