Summary
Scottish Ballet is heading States-side, taking the double bill they premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival to California and Minnesota. Last week, part of that bill, Jorma Elo's specially commissioned Kings 2 Ends, paired up with Ashley Page's Pennies From Heaven, delivering a programme that highlighted how technically adept and artistically sussed these dancers are, and how fresh, distinctive and sparky the repertoire has become.
Now that the company has Elo's choreography, set to music by Reich and Mozart, under its belt, the dancers can afford to enjoy the subversive quirks that he seeds into the demands of his classically attuned vocabulary. As with Page's wittily nuanced response to the 1930s popular songs in Pennies from Heaven, there's an element in Kings 2 Ends that needs a shrug of humour, a little shimmy of giggly naughtiness, a sudden sizzle of seeming abandon to counterpoint the serious purity of line and style elsewhere.See the full content of this document
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Scottish Ballet, Theatre Royal, Glasgow
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