'Relocates the feisty, erotic rhetoric of tango to a new 21st century cultural mix' - The Guardian on Martin Lawrance’s Brink (2007)
'A choreographer for whom every dance is a love affair with his chosen music' - The Times on Richard Alston
Performances:
Tue 22 Apr: 7:30pm
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Richard Alston Dance Company
No other dance company in the world places such unalloyed emphasis on the importance of music - and the deep magic it can conjure together with dance - as Richard Alston Dance Company. The result is an untrammeled pleasure that carries all before it.
FINGERPRINT is Richard Alston’s response to the intricate and inventive flow that is the genius of Bach. FINGERPRINT pairs the young Bach’s Capriccio for keyboard with the D Major Toccata, a bright and forthright celebration of both subtlety and bravura.
Schumann’s romantic Dichterliebe has inspired Martin Lawrance to make BODY & SOUL, his latest choreography for RADC. The music deals with the obsessive and anguished suffering of a Romantic lover. Lawrance chooses his music with care, and treats it with sensitive respect.
The songwriter Hoagy Carmichael recorded his own often witty lyrics in a low-key Southern drawl, a style he described as “Lazying”. In Richard Alston’s brand new LAZY RIVER, the Carmichael classics Alston has chosen (including Riverboat Shuffle, Georgia On My Mind, Old Man Harlem and Star Dust) fairly scurry along with wry little licks and subtly punched out rhythm. It is toe-tapping, knee-jiggling music which gets the whole company moving.
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