Mark Ronson’s Ballet To Feature Members Of The Kills & The Drums

The Mark Ronson soundtracked ballet ‘Carbon Life’, set to debut next week at the Royal Opera House will feature performances from some special guests.

The Kill’s Alison Mosshart, Boy George, Wale & The Drums’ frontman Johnathan Pierce are all set to perform at the first showing of the Wayne McGregor choreographed ballet, taking place on April 5th as part of a series of performances that evening at the Royal Opera House. The score will also feature orchestral arrangements by Rufus Wainwright.

Speaking to the Independent about signing up to the project, which has now been in the works for around two years, Ronson says, ‘I didn’t really have to think about it because it was the prestige of the Royal Opera House mixed with just knowing what a don Wayne is in his world – he’s the most sought after choreographer in the world.’

He goes on to discuss some of the lyrical and performance work taken up by his guests, ‘‘Some of Alison’s pieces are these wild, unruly passion, love letters put into song and some of Jonny’s lyrics look at how love can be this incredibly pure thing that’s just an extension of nature. And Wale talks in a more contemporary sense of how sometimes you’re just trying to get a girl home and all the things you say, all the bullshit you’ll spout, to try and accomplish that. I guess you ask one person about love, and everyone has their own articulation of it. It’s almost like the whole thing is a split personality.’

Ronson worked with Andrew Wyatt of Miike Snow to compose nine songs for the show, themed around Jungian theories of love that Wyatt was studying at the time.

Tickets for the event are on sale now.