The necessarily episodic nature of Ballet Ireland's Magical Journey to Vienna shows this small company to have some very talented dancers and, in Werner Dittrich and Audrey Whelan, a costume-design team couturiers might envy. The different evocations of style and convention - cleverly exaggerated in the Polichinelles excerpt from The Nutcracker by choreographer Gunther Falusy - give a display-case impression.
The excerpt from Coppelia (reproduced by artistic director Anne Maher) provides a sense of ensemble and Falusy's own Lost Love (to Tchai kovsky's music) shows that these young dancers have heart as well as technique.
