Wayne McGregor is the choreographer of the moment, the brainiest bloke on the block. That this must be so is confirmed by the scale of the recognition he receives, as much from rapturous young audiences as from battle-hardened institutions.
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This was the UK premiere for the Compagnie Marie Chouinard from Quebec. She started with Soft virtuosity, still humid, on the edge – a title that means nothing in English but perhaps has more resonance in French. Happily the work was far more exciting than the title.
A dance-drama about the troubled lives of Caitlin & Dylan Thomas
Archives 2010-11 Primrose MacFay reviews The Merce Cunningham Dance Company at the Barbican Centre, London “Nearly Ninety” 30 October 2010
This epic work dates from 2000 and 18 years later it still has moments that beguile. Körper means Bodies and the 13 international dancers nearly all wear white underpants as a uniform that unerotically emphasises flesh, bones and blood.
By Julia Pascal • dance, theatre, year 2018 • Tags: ballet, dance, Julia Pascal, theatre