New York City Ballet star Tiler Peck has a world premiere, her first ballet choreographed for a European company. And where is the big night? In a small theatre on the edge of Leeds city centre. That’s a minor coup for Northern Ballet and its artistic director, the former Royal Ballet dancer Federico Bonelli. While Peck is still at her peak as a dancer, she is picking up steam as a choreographer (not to mention all-round social media personality). And she’s learning fast. London audiences have already seen her piece Thousandth Orange in the Turn it Out With Tiler Peck and Friends show back in March, but this one, entitled Intimate Pages, is better. That’s partly because she has chosen music from Janacek’s second string quartet – played live – that is simpatico with her dancing instincts, full of intricate, darting rhythms and dramatic changes of pace. Peck employs those characteristics in the dance, where quick chains of steps and turns might be cut with a lyrical phrase, or the mood moves from dark to …

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