Maud Le Pladec's Twenty-Seven Perspectives lacks cohesion

Maud Le Pladec's Twenty-Seven Perspectives

Par Graham Watts, 02 novembre 2023

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“such moments of imprecision diminished the overall aesthetic”

Critique faite à Sadler's Wells Theatre, Londres, le 31 octobre 2023

Twenty-seven Perspectives (Maud Le Pladec)

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Trois danseuses et trois danseurs dansent, chantent et explorent le mouvement... à l'Infini. Rien ne semble superflu dans ce spectacle de Boris Charmatz qui place la sémantique du chiffre sur le devant de la scène.

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Cappella Mediterranea blows life into Eliogabalo’s dark carnival as imagined by Thomas Jolly.

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A reimagining of Pina Bausch's 1978 Kontakthof by Meryl Tankard brings together eight of the original cast members in a unique and poignant revival.

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Graham Watts

Graham Watts is a freelance dance writer and critic writing regularly for Dancing Times, Dance Europe, Danza Europa, and many more publications. He regularly writes features for Sadler’s Wells, London Coliseum and La Scala. Chairman of the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle in the United Kingdom and of the UK National Dance Awards he has interviewed many of the greatest names in dance including Maya Plisetskaya, Vladimir Vasiliev, Boris Eifman, Alexei Ratmansky, Andris Liepa, Sir Peter Wright, David Bintley and Dame Gillian Lynne. When not involved in dance Graham is a keen fencer, and has captained the British Sabre team.