The unreserved standing ovation from the packed Victoria Theatre was like watching a rolling mass action of spontaneous joy. And Mâ Ravan’ deserved every single handclap.   It is a wonderful, wonderful theatrical achievement, an exquisite pleasure to watch.   The cast of four dancers who hail from the Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius, Réunion and Madagascar, enact a homage and ritual to the ancestors who were wrested from their families and homelands, and sold as slaves.   The dancers are breathtakingly superb, with bodies that had all the young women in the row behind me making appreciative exclamations, until eventually Andrew Buckland – who was sitting next to me and was equally spellbound – politely asked them to shut up. more_link_text Related posts:Carmen: Simply superb! It’s a ...