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The Associates at Sadler’s Wells: new horizons

By Cristina de Lucas, 08 February 2015
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“Chu and Plamondon transmitted the elusive but vivid quality of the story neatly and convincingly.”
Reviewed at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London on 6 February 2015
Programme
A Picture of You Falling (Crystal Pite)
The barbarians in love (Hofesh Shechter)
Smile (Kate Prince)
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Cristina de Lucas
Cristina de Lucas
After a career in the legal field where she combined her job as an Attorney at Law with collaborative roles in various local and international cultural enterprises, Cristina de Lucas turned to dance research and criticism in 2009, when she moved to London. She obtained her doctorate from the Department of Dance at the University of Roehampton (London). Her fully-funded thesis focused on the confluence between dance and narrative in the repertory of the British choreographer Kenneth MacMillan. Her research has received several awards, such a full Vice-Chancellor scholarship and the 2014 SDHS Graduate Student Travel Grant. She also reviews dance and cinema, contributing regularly to several publications in Spain and UK.