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Dance: Superb swansong from Guillem
Life In Progress
Sadlers Wells Theatre, London EC1
5/5
If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
TWO world premieres by Akram Khan and Russell Maliphant are currently honouring Sylvie Guillem’s swansong as one of the most outstanding interpreters of ballet and contemporary dance over the last 35 years.
Life In Progress comprises two works and the first, Akran Kham’s techne, is a solo work accompanied by live musicians onstage.
It has Guillem emerging from a primordial state as she explores the uniqueness of her corporeal self, first as a quadruped and then as dancer in submission to nature.
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