Behind closed doors: Rambert premieres Jo Strømgren's Rooms

By Graham Watts, 11 April 2021

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“expect the unexpected and anticipate the absurd”

Reviewed at Rambert, London on 9 April 2021

Rooms (Jo Strømgren)

Rambert

Richard Gellar, Costume Designer

Guillaume Quéau, Dancer

Simone Damberg Wurtz, Dancer

Aishwarya Raut, Dancer

Brenda Lee Grech, Dancer

Naya Lovell, Dancer

Adél Bálint, Dancer

Alex Akapohi, Dancer

Max Day, Dancer

Daniel Davidson, Dancer

Edit Domoszlai, Dancer

Liam Francis, Dancer

Juan Gil, Dancer

Conor Kerrigan, Dancer

Antonello Sangirardi, Dancer

Kym Sojourna, Dancer

Alex Soulliere, Dancer

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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.