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Three female choreographers, all leading names in contemporary dance, tackle Beethoven’s Grande Fugue op. 133, beginning with Lucinda Childs’s take on the composer’s magisterial work.
Playing effortlessly with the tension between classical and contemporary vocabulary, the neat order of carefully structured steps combines with ecstatic movement in a blissful interpretation and Childs’s signature clean and precise style is aided and abetted by gorgeous lighting, costume and stage design from Dominique Drillot.
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