KVN Dance Company: Coppélia review – a fun mashup of beats, belts and ballet

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KVN Dance Company: Coppélia review – a fun mashup of beats, belts and ballet

Marylebone theatre, LondonFairytale meets hip-hop in Kevan Allen’s energetic reworking of the classic ballet about a toymaker and his all-too-realistic dollKevan Allen usually choreographs for film premieres, TV, musicals, fashion shows, corporate events and pop videos (Hear’Say’s Pure and Simple was one of his, 00s fans). But here he is with his own company, revisiting a 19th-century ballet. And it doesn’t look like much else you’ll see on the…