Date(s): 23 - 24 Mar 2010
Time(s): 7:30 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
Light Flooding Into Darkened Rooms deals with privacy, with a delicacy of feeling masked by the formal façade of propriety and gracious behaviour. When Denis Gaultier wrote his lute pieces in the 17th century, a music could lesson act as the polite cover for stolen moments of intimacy. The music master's attentive correction of the pupil's fingering on an instrument involved close physical contact and sensual touch - all in the name or art and its high ideals. Jo Kondo's Ars Breview, music inspired by Gaultier's "broken style", adds a 20th century tension to this formality - a more overt picture of the undercurrents swirling beneath such a demeanour of dignity.
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Date(s): 23 - 24 Mar 2010
Time(s): 7:30 pm
Price: £12-22
Derngate
Guildhall Road
Northampton
NN1 1DP
Box Office: 01604 624 811
photos: Hugo Glendinning