Border Tales

By Graham Watts, 20 November 2017

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“a compelling and absorbing 75 minutes of excellent dance theatre”

Reviewed at The Place, London on 15 November 2017

Border Tales (Luca Silvestrini)

Protein Dance

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Another evening of enjoyable and diverse dance although the most complete and satisfying work was the revival from ten years' ago

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Protein Dance's Border Tales

Catherine Sutherland, 28th February

Luca Silvestrini’s Border Tales at The Place is a colourful, humorous look at multiculturalism in modern Britain.

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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.

Luca Silvestrini’s Protein revives Border Tales