Industrial dances in Rambert2's Home and Killer Pig

By Graham Watts, 13 November 2021

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Reviewed at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London on 11 November 2021

Killer Pig (Sharon Eyal, Gai Behar)

Home (Micaela Taylor)

Rambert2

Sharon Eyal’s Into the Hairy at Sadler’s Wells

Deborah Weiss, 13th November

Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar’s S-E-D comes to Sadler's Wells with Into the Hairy, worth seeing for extraordinary dancers and the idiosyncratic nature of her distinctive choreography.

***11

Sharon Eyal and Gail Behar's R.o.s.e: innovative, but disappointing

Graham Watts, 10th July

R.o.s.e is an immersive experience of a performance within a rave – not the most enjoyable way to appreciate the professional dancers.

**111

Norwegian National Ballet's Dialogues II: brief but brilliant

Graham Watts, 3rd April

A brief but excellent programme of five duets showcased on the main stage of the Den Norske Opera.

***11

Love, humour and drama at the Staatsballett Berlin

Vikki Jane Vile, 15th November

Staatsballett Berlin continue its run of this popular double bill, 2 Chapters Love, named after Sharon Eyal’s work and a follow up to 2017’s to Love Chapter 2.

****1

Flickers of human fragility: Staatsballett Berlin’s superb double bill

Katja Vaghi, 28th October

Dancers as athletic poets: Staatsballett Berlin in Ohad Naharin’s Minus 16 and Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar’s Saaba.

****1

Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo dazzle in a new triple bill

Deborah Weiss, 24th April

Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo presents three equally riveting ballets in a triple bill of abstract works from Christopher Wheeldon, Sharon Eyal/Gai Behar and Jean-Christophe Maillot.

****1

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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.

Industrial dances in Rambert2's Home and Killer Pig at Sadler's Wells