Date(s): 22 - 23 May 2012
Time(s): 7:30 pm
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.
Shimmer is a dance to the sun-drenched music of Ravel played live by Jason Ridgway. Julien Macdonald’s fabulous, jewel-encrusted cobweb costumes illuminate dazzling streaks of limpid choreography in a ravishingly beautiful piece of theatre. “Alston's barefoot dancers look as if they have been sprinkled with fairy dust. The effect is magical….It’s one of Alston’s most quietly moving dances” The Times.
The programme is completed by Alston’s latest work, A Ceremony of Carols, choreographed to Benjamin Britten’s masterpiece for boys’ voices and harp. The music is of magisterial simplicity, conjuring up a rich world of rapt, devout adoration; the dance is a celebration of a sheer surge of breath, a pure stream of sound.
A Ceremony of Carols was co-commissioned by The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, Sadler’s Wells and Peak Performance @ Montclair State (NJ).
Details:
Date(s): 22 - 23 May 2012
Time(s): 7:30 pm
Price: £8.00 - £16.50 (concessions available)
Theatre Severn
Frankwell Quay
Shrewsbury
SY3 8FT
Box office: 01743 281281