My review of this excellent evening of dance for the Financial Times -
Rambert Dance Company
The Art of Touch / RainForest / A Linha Curva
Siobhan Davies / Merce Cunningham / Itzik Galili
Sadler’s Wells, London
25 May 2010
“Triple bill” so often equals “mixed bag” that a beautifully composed one is cause for celebration. With a Siobhan Davies delicacy, vintage Merce Cunningham and a resounding finale, the sum of the three works that Rambert Dance is performing this week at Sadler’s Wells is a gratifyingly varied evening.
The Art of Touch, which Davies created in 1995, is all elegant musicality. Rambert’s dancers follow the anxious ebb and flow of Scarlatti’s keyboard sonatas as if chasing time, bringing out the unaffected poetry of the work’s duets and patterns. Davies makes expressive use of the hands, hinting at fleeting narratives: one of the women seems repeatedly to let go of her secrets as she opens her palm; others knock at imaginary doors, seeming to initiate or terminate the score’s implacable cascades of notes. (…)
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