Some Casualties Sustained As the Day of Wrath Arrives ; Dance Rambert Dance Company: Eternal Light Tour 2008 Sadler's Wells ***
Evening Standard - London › November 12, 2008
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IN THE past year or two, new Rambert productions have tended to feature digital-smash music and pump-shudder choreography. They are aimed at the young and evoke the club culture that young people favour, which is fine and dandy, except that when you see the company perform work that taps an older and more spiritual tradition, the dancers are transformed.
Artistic director Mark Baldwin has created a 50-minute work that is set to a new Requiem by Howard Goodall. Even Christians may not know the liturgical tradition but Baldwin and Goodall have brought these prayers for the dead to life, as well as providing consolation to those who mourn.See the full content of this document
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Some Casualties Sustained As the Day of Wrath Arrives ; Dance Rambert Dance Company: Eternal Light Tour 2008 Sadler's Wells ***
The piece is not without annoyances such as the women's white Lycra belled...
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