New lines on the dancefloor: New work with Wayne McGregor | Random Dance at Kings Place

By Jaime Robles, 23 September 2013

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Reviewed at Kings Place: Hall One, London on 20 September 2013

Random Works (Robert Binet, Catarina Carvalho, Nina Kov, Travis Clausen-Knight, Michael-John Harper, Anna Nowak, Fukiko Takase, Alexander Whitley, Jessica Wright, Morgann Runacre-Temple)

Company Wayne McGregor

Aurora Orchestra

Max Baillie, Viola

Timothy Orpen, Clarinet

Leafcutter John, Electronics

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Jaime Robles

Jaime Robles has previously written in the San Francisco Bay Area, including for the San Francisco Classical Voice. Also a poet, she has written song lyrics and librettos for several one-act operas, including Inferno (music by Peter Josheff), staged in 2009 by San Francisco Cabaret Opera, and Vladimir in Butterfly Country (music by Anne Callaway), staged in 2012.