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Rambert Dance/Mixed Bill


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Sadler's Wells Rosebery Avenue, EC1R 4TN

Phone: 0844 412 4300

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Carnival mood with Rambert

Rambert dance
Complex moves: Rambert dancers

By Sarah Frater
26 May 2010


All dance companies talk about new work, and interesting revivals, but few make them happen like Rambert. Last night the company’s triple bill was a case study in getting it right, with all three worth seeing, all well danced, and each showing the variety and ingenuity of contemporary choreography.

With its carnival mood and irresistible percussion, Itzik Galili’s A Linha Curva is the easiest to like. It features 28 dancers grooving away as if off to a party in Rio. It is more complex that its good humour suggests but it’s the enthusiasm and party exuberance that win you over.

A fascinating programme note for Merce Cunningham’s RainForest reveals that when Cunningham asked Andy Warhol to create the designs, Warhol suggested the dancers perform in the nude. It’s good to know that for all his innovations, Cunningham held back from that. The Rambert dancers were a little uneven in these but their speed combined with Warhol’s slow-floating helium-filled silver Mylar pillows filled the stage with hypnotic motion.

The unexpected revelation was Siobhan Davies’s The Art of Touch. Her piece inspired by the sound and mechanics of the harpsichord was playful joy.
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