RTS Visit Ballet

Faced with the prospect of another Monday meeting London Reclaim the Streets decided ‘sod this, let’s go to the ballet’. On July 30th a performance of Swan Lake was being relayed from the Royal Opera House into the Covent Garden piazza.

The RTS love of the higher arts is legendary, but what caught their eye most was the BP sponsorship, with their lovely logos plastered everywhere.

Not up for annoying hundreds of people by spoiling their entertainment, the group went for a low-key presence, holding up the wonderful ‘bye-bye planet’ banner and giving out loads of the glossy anti-BP flyers. People were pretty receptive and even the sight of one person dressed as a half ballet dancer, half-paramilitary, complete with tutu, didn’t seem to put them off.

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