Date(s): 3 - 4 Mar 2010
Time(s): 7:30 pm, 1:30 pm
Music is at the very heart of Richard Alston’s dance making, and this season sees the master choreographer’s company span some 250 years of music, from Baroque composer JS Bach to the contemporary Californian composer Terry Riley.
Wild, energetic and thrilling, Overdrive is powered by the relentless push of Riley’s percussive, cross-rhythmic keyboard studies. Trance-like in its effect, the choreography demands extreme virtuosity and stamina from its performers and is rightly acclaimed as a modern masterpiece of British dance.
"Fast-paced and utterly exhilarating" Sunday Times
The much loved Brandenburg concertos of Bach are sturdy, vigorous and joyous celebrations of bright instrumental colour. In To Dance And Skylark Martin Lawrance’s high-spirited athletic steps pick up on all the elation of this glorious music.
“Clever, original in outline, true choreography, and I want to see more of Lawrance’s dance-making” Financial Times
Stravinsky’s brilliant use of folk melody highlights the busy to and fro of a Carnival fair. In stark contrast, the isolation of the puppet Petrushka is all the more anguished. In Movements From Petrushka, Alston’s skillful reworking of images from the ballet Petrushka is specially revived this year to mark the centenary of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes.
“You only have to watch two minutes from Movements From Petrushka to see Alston’s on a winning streak” The Guardian
SPECIAL OVERDRIVE SCHOOLS MATINEE
Thu 4 March 1.30 - 3pm
A chance to hear Richard Alston introduce his choreography and, following a full performance of Overdrive, to ask him and his dancers questions. Tickets £8 / £10 (1 teacher free per 10 pupils).
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Date(s): 3 - 4 Mar 2010
Time(s): 7:30 pm, 1:30 pm
Price: £10-25
Sadler's Wells
Rosebery Avenue
London EC1R 4TN
Box Office: 0844 412 4300
photos: Hugo Glendinning