This event finished on: 16 May 2012
Richard Alston’s recent Unfinished Business is danced to the beautiful, lucid and flowing music of Mozart – the two movements of an unfinished piano sonata, Opus K533, played live by Jason Ridgway. To these, Alston has added an extraordinary arrangement of Mozart’s brilliant Gigue in D by the Italian virtuoso Federico Busoni, creating a third movement and bringing things to a rousing close.
Also on the programme is Other Than I, a new duet set to music by Francois Couperin and choreographed by Martin Lawrance, whose Lie of the Land was one of the highlights of the last season.
In Memory was one of the last pieces choreographed by Robert Cohan before he left London Contemporary Dance Theatre, the company he founded and led for over twenty years. An intimate and quietly intense piece for six dancers, In Memory, revived for the first time, is Cohan at his most succinct and powerful. The music is Hindemith’s spare and expressive Sonata for unaccompanied viola.
The programme is completed by a revival of Richard Alston’s iconic Roughcut, made in 1990 and probably his best-loved signature piece. It is danced to Steve Reich’s shimmeringly beautiful New York and Electric Counterpoints, for clarinet and guitar. This is a rare chance to see one of the defining classics of British Dance. “Fills the stripped-back reaches of the stage with a mercurial joie de vivre that makes you grin in the dark” The Herald.
The revival of In Memory was made possible by generous support from the Robin Howard Foundation.
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Nottingham Playhouse
Wellington Circus
Nottingham
NG1 5AF
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