At the Staatsoper Berlin: Jean-Christophe Maillot, artistic director and chief choreographer of the Ballets de Monte-Carlo since 1993, with 'Altro Canto'. The press department writes that Maillot is concerned with a dance-like, even an emotional description of the subtle energy that unfolds as the real attraction when the iridescent tension between opposites becomes the main event in the pulse of sensation. Sounds like one of those sentences you get when you fire up one of those funny bullshit generators you find on the internet, which are so often used by alternative practitioners and homeopaths to populate their websites. Press performance of the Berlin State Opera on 20 January 2017