Miami City Ballet Commissions A New Work By 24-Year-Old Choreographer Liam Scarlett

The man creating a new dance for Miami City Ballet’s next season is a 24-year-old dancer with London’s Royal Ballet who’s being touted as one of the form’s most promising choreographic talents. And the creative collaboration came about through an ungraceful but fortuitous meeting, as MCB director Edward Villella, visiting the Royal during a vacation in London, and Liam Scarlett literally collided outside a Royal Opera House elevator last spring…