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Choreographer Ben Wright’s new company, bgroup, has just completed a tour of about around, which will be touring again in 2010.
This intimate new piece is performed inside an audience circle of 50 chairs. Four dancers - Keir Patrick, Delphine Gaborit, Theo Clinkard and Anna Bjerre Larsen – enact a sequence of events that chart the passing of one hour; they explore social rituals and draw the audience so close to the skin of the performance the experience becomes hypnotic and completely absorbing.
With lighting design by Guy Hoare and a sound score by Alan Stones, about around is the second production from this new company following the critical acclaim of its first production, The Diminishing Present.
“So what is About Around about? Oh, everything really, from the tenderness and violence of lovemaking to the tricksy ecstasy experience – a scene so vividly pumped up I swear my pupils dilated…the most memorable moments, punctuated by spontaneous whoops from the dancers, were about nothing more – or less – than the sheer exhilaration of movement.” (The Latest)
www.bgroup.org.uk |
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about around images by Stephen Berkeley-White |
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