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Rambert Triple Bill, Alhambra Theatre Bradford
Varied dance menu with agreeable aftertaste
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GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
“It has to be eclectic,” writes Rambert’s artistic director Benoit Swan Pouffer on the creation of this mixed programme.
“It has to feel like a buffet.” He’s achieved that objective with the company’s latest triple bill, which opens with Wayne McGregor’s PreSentient (2002).
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