★★★✰✰ Once a year Sadler’s Wells puts on Sampled, a pick and mix of the types of dance you might see at the venue. The front stalls seats are taken out, and standing in that area is only a fiver, with cheap tickets in general.
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★★★★★ It must be tempting to get carried away by sentiment when it comes to celebrating both a 70th birthday and fifty years as a choreographer in a programme that also marks the departure of a special muse.
★★★★★ The programme ended with a revival of the ebullient and uplifting Gypsy Mixture...
★★★★✰ All-in-all this was an outstanding programme of entertaining dance...
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories this last year…
The Richard Alston Dance Company concludes its spring tour with a series of performances at The Place, celebrating their 20th anniversary with premieres of new commissions and a revival of one of his classics...
Alston’s response to music is scrupulous, but Kondo’s percussive clatters, not dissimilar to John Cage’s prepared-piano poundings, takes some getting used to – for audiences, as for dancers.
Alston is going to develop Isthmus, thank goodness, as soon as he has the opportunity – it’s a stunner.