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Dance Review: Push at the London Coliseum
PETER LINDLEY is left gasping at the performance of Russell Maliphant and Sylvie Guillem
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
5/5
Pitched as a last London performance, choreographed and danced by Russell Maliphant with Sylvie Guillem, Push is just about the most anticipated, hyped and then critically acclaimed contemporary dance piece of the year and rightly so.
The wow factor and capacity to thrill throughout this bewildering and physically exacting 30-minute duet comes by way of the difficult to work out holding and falling positions, unfolding into a fast flow of combinations and intersections.
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