To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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Dance: Woolf Works wonders
Woolf Works
Royal Opera House
London WC2
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
VIRGINIA WOOLF’S novels Mrs Dalloway, Orlando and The Waves, along with extracts from her letters, essays and diaries, are the source material for this new work by the great choreographer Wayne McGregor.
In collaboration with composer-musician Max Richter, he’s come up with a thrilling interpretation of the literary source material.
It’s a spectacular triptych which homes in on micro-moments of emotion and tragedy in the writings, with the sensual narrative drive of I Now, I Then a departure from McGregor’s usual adventures in abstraction.
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