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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Susan Darlington reviews Recreation by Yorkshire Dance, Leeds
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
THERE’S a growing interest in “slow television” which can be traced back to Andy Warhol’s 1963 conceptual film Sleep and, as an adjunct to this, Gillie Kleiman is seemingly exploring slow choreography with Recreation.
The one-hour show, an invitation to consider work and relaxation and to “blur the distinction between being active and being receptive,” sets out to achieve the latter by making the audience performers and vice versa by introducing two invited dancers onstage to join the core cast of three.
As a concept, it has tantalising potential but this experimental production fails to realise it on almost every level.
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