Wayne McGregor’s award-winning ballet triptych is inspired by the writings of Virginia Woolf, with an original score by Max Richter. Principals of The Royal Ballet Natalia Osipova and Edward Watson perform the Orlando pas de deux. The DVD of Woolf Works is now available Virginia Woolf's writing defied the order of narrative conventions to depict a heightened, startling and poignant reality. Each of the three acts springs from one of Woolf's landmark novels: Mrs Dalloway, Orlando and The Waves – but these inspirations are also woven with elements from her letters, essays and diaries. Woolf Works expresses the heart of an artistic life driven to discover a freer, uniquely modern realism, and brings to life Woolf's world of 'granite and rainbow', where human beings are at once both physical body and unconfined essence. Woolf Works (2015) was Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor's first full-length work for The Royal Ba
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