Protein Dance's Border Tales

By Catherine Sutherland, 02 March 2014

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Reviewed at The Place, London on 28 February 2014

Border Tales (Luca Silvestrini)

Protein Dance

Stuart Waters, Dancer

Salah El Brogy, Dancer

Femi Oyewole, Dancer

Yuyu Rau, Dancer

Eryck Brahmania, Dancer

Stephen Moynihan, Dancer

Anthar Kharana, Percussion

Kenny Wing Tao Ho, Dancer

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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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Catherine Sutherland

Catherine has recently moved to Beijing, where she writes, studies Chinese, and teaches English at a university. She has an avid interest in East and Southeast Asian performing arts and has also lived in Seoul, South Korea, and speaks Korean. Catherine is a graduate of Royal Holloway, University of London, worked as dance editor for Bachtrack for 6 months. You can read more on Catherine's Wordpress blog Catherine and the Lion

Luca Silvestrini's Protein Dance: Border Tales