Justitia is done: Jasmin Vardimon at the Peacock Theatre

By Katja Vaghi, 20 September 2013

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Reviewed at Sadler's Wells: Peacock Theatre, London on 17 September 2013

Justitia (Jasmin Vardimon)

Jasmin Vardimon Company

Jasmin Vardimon’s NOW – a timely reminder of a leading light

Graham Watts, 7th March

A revisiting of Vardimon’s past work in a collage of important ideas from her existing repertoire, stirred in with new choreography, design and sound.

****1

Carmen at Glyndebourne: a timeless tragedy

David Karlin, 16th May

Diane Paulus' staging is remarkably true to the original while making it feel like the work was written yesterday.

*****

JV2 mesmerise in Jasmin Vardimon's Canvas

Deborah Weiss, 31st March

Students from the Jasmin Vardimon Company's development programme JV2 impress in the company's purpose-built premises in Ashford.

***11

Tim Albery's Tannhäuser gets a second revival at the ROH

Mark Valencia, 29th January

Albery's production allows the opera to speak for itself, although sluggish pacing in the pit detract from the musical merits of this revival.

***11

Downhill from Venusberg: a bland Tannhäuser

Mark Pullinger, 26th April

Tim Albery's 2010 production of Tannhäuser, receiving its first revival at Covent Garden, begins with a stylish opening 20 minutes, but thereafter things become rather bland.

***11

Jasmin Vardimon's Freedom at Sadler's Wells

Erin Johnson, 12th November

In what way would you set the stage for an exploration of freedom? Jasmin Vardimon’s vision adorns the Sadler’s Wells stage with large, spinning set pieces dripping with duct tube and green vines of industrial plastic. A camouflaged blanket made of rustling synthetic leaves makes sporadic entrances and exits to the scene.

****1

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Katja Vaghi

With a background in Dance Studies, Literature and Linguistics (MA English Studies from Zurich University and PhD in dance philosophy from the University of Roehampton in London) and a formation as a modern dancer (Ballet Arts, NYC), Katja is a freelance dancer, choreographer, dance researcher and dramaturge currently living in Berlin.