Summary
On stage, the energy is absolutely in the moment: each gesture, each step given a new minted clarity and impact by Alston's thrillingly able dancers.
It's especially pleasing because this mixed bill amounted to a sampler of contemporary dance history. Two pieces by Alston, one recent and one a revival, book-ended the programme. In between was a new duet by Martin Lawrance (whose choreography Alston has encouraged from the first) and a re-staging of In Memory by Robert Cohan, whose supportive presence in Alston's own early days was the springboard for an illustrious career that now spans four decades. The programme subtly tips its hat to London Contemporary Dance Theatre: killed off by cuts in 1994 but an ongoing influence.See the full content of this document
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Richard Alston Dance Company, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
In Memory, now re-set to the spiky dissonances of...
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