Pirouette like Jagger: UK's Royal Ballet dances through streets of London to Rolling Stones soundtrack

The video was made to spotlight ‘unrelenting pressures of Covid-19’ on the arts

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  Royal Ballet dancer Yasmine Naghdi dances through the streets of London, Britain in June 2020. Reuters

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  Royal Ballet dancer William Bracewell performs outside the Royal Opera House. Reuters

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  Royal Ballet dancer Yasmine Naghdi sits outside the entrance of London's Royal Albert Hall. Reuters

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  Royal Ballet dancer Tierney Heap leans against a wall of the Abbey Theatre in St Albans, north London. Reuters

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  Royal Ballet dancer Anna Rose O'Sullivan runs to the stage door of the Prince of Wales Theatre in London. Reuters

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  Royal Ballet dancer David Donnelly sits on wall outside the Globe Theatre in London. Reuters

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  Royal Ballet dancer Meaghan Grace Hinkis stands outside a red telephone box. Reuters

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  Royal Ballet dancer Tierney Heap performs in a street in St Albans, north London. Reuters

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  The silhouette of a dancer can be seen against the light in a London street. Reuters

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  It's not just London, the dancers have been taking to the outside to perform in. Royal Ballet dancer Nicol Edmonds performs at Marazion Beach, in Cornwall, Britain. Reuters

Dancers from Britain's Royal Ballet have made a short film in which they perform in London's deserted streets to the sounds of The Rolling Stones, a project designed to highlight the plight of the arts during the coronavirus pandemic.

First soloists William Bracewell and Reece Clarke, among others, donned trainers to dance on sunlit pavements and cobblestone roads outside the sealed entrances of some of London’s biggest theatres.

These included Shakespeare’s Globe, the Royal Opera House and the Royal Albert Hall.

The film’s producers said in a statement they wanted to shine a spotlight on a sector threatened by “the unrelenting pressures of Covid-19”.

The video was directed by Joanna DeFelice, Meaghan Grace Hinkis and Melanie Hamrick, a ballerina and partner of The Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger.

It was choreographed to The Rolling Stones' Living in a Ghost Town, a single released in April.

The project aims to raise funds for Acting for Others, a network of 14 charities providing financial and emotional support to people who work in the theatre.