Unsettling darkness in Hofesh Shechter’s new production Sun

Por Cristina de Lucas, 01 noviembre 2013

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Crítica hecha desde Sadler's Wells Theatre, Londres el 30 octubre 2013

Sun (Hofesh Shechter)

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Lucid dance states: Hofesh Shechter Company in Theatre of Dreams

Mark Vicente, 13th February

Theatre of Dreams is a sumptuous smorgasbord of dance theatre rich in visual imagery and lingering in one’s imagination indefinitely.

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Graham 100 : le génie impérissable de Martha Graham au Châtelet

Julie Jozwiak, 5th November

Avec quelques semaines d'avance, la Martha Graham Dance Company fête son centenaire en faisant dialoguer la danse d’avant-garde de sa fondatrice et le génie créatif effervescent de notre époque.

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Hofesh Shechter Company: Theatre of Dreams at Sadler's Wells

Graham Watts, 15th October

After a slow beginning, the work gathers pace, thoroughly engrossing the audience in its exhilarating, foot-tapping momentum.

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Restless and damp: Paris Opera Ballet in Red Carpet

Carla Escoda, 9th October

Hofesh Shechter's Red Carpet for Paris Opera Ballet offered brief harrowing elements in an otherwise tiresome evening, though the music, also by Shechter, was tremendous.

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A powerhouse: Opera Ballet Vlaanderen in Shechter’s Grand Finale

Deborah Weiss, 26th September

Opera Ballet Vlaanderen powers its way through an exciting revamp of Hofesh Shechter’s inimitable Grand Finale.

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Transformative magic at Martha Graham Dance

Carla Escoda, 2nd April

More centenary celebrations by the Martha Graham Dance Company: the first of several mixed bills this season displays the Graham dancers at their most powerful.

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Cristina de Lucas

After a career in the legal field where she combined her job as an Attorney at Law with collaborative roles in various local and international cultural enterprises, Cristina de Lucas turned to dance research and criticism in 2009, when she moved to London. She obtained her doctorate from the Department of Dance at the University of Roehampton (London). Her fully-funded thesis focused on the confluence between dance and narrative in the repertory of the British choreographer Kenneth MacMillan. Her research has received several awards, such a full Vice-Chancellor scholarship and the 2014 SDHS Graduate Student Travel Grant. She also reviews dance and cinema, contributing regularly to several publications in Spain and UK.