★★★✰✰ Absolutely first rate dancing with rather mixed choreography...
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★★★★✰ The tableaux recall Francis Bacon paintings – and Goya in his darkest moments.
★★★★✰ Noetic was created in 2014 for the company by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui working with his frequent collaborator sculptor Antony Gormley.
★★✰✰✰ Reviewing a youth dance company is always a tricky thing. These are not professional dancers although everything else about the production is a professional show.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★★✰ They say that the best cooks take the ingredients and do the least to them to create a magnificent meal, and that's what Michael Keegan-Dolan has done...
Calling it a dance performance might be pushing it, to be honest, as there’s little actual dance... Instead, it’s more of a slick live art installation...
...a perfect example of what can happen when an exceptional practitioner is led astray by an excess of theatrical ideas and special effects.
While other Cherkaoui collaborations have generally crossed boundaries to link contemporary movement with the borrowed style, in Genesis there appears to be a multiplicity of influences.
...d’avant is the collaborative work of four dancers-singers-creators: Sidi Larbi Charkaoui, Damien Jalet, Luc Dunberry and Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola. Waltz herself is not credited in the programme...
![Al’manni Alli, Tyrell Foreshaw and National Youth Dance Company in Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's Frame[d].© Stephen Wright. (Click image for larger version)](https://dancetabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/sw-framed-almanni-alli-tyrell-foreshaw-kneeling_360.jpg)
Do catch it if you want to enjoy the energy and shared commitment of its young performers.
There's a thread connecting the elemental ancient to the here and now, trailing slowly but firmly through Scottish Dance Theatre's double bill of new works.