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Cathy Marston displays a novelist’s touch in layering characters in her wonderfully choreographed show for Northern BalletEarly reviewers of Jane Eyre complained that Charlotte Brontë’s protagonist was impossible to like. Ironic, intractable, and inflamed and culpably plain,Jane stood stubbornly apart from the blueprint of Victorian femininity. It’s a tribute to Cathy Marston, in her recent work for Northern Ballet, or that she’s choreographed a Jane who is similarly emancipated from the conventional tropes of the ballet heroine.
Dividing the role between young and adult Jane,Marston shows a novelist’s touch in building the layers of her character. Antoinette Brooks-Daw is superb in the early scenes, both frozen and furious, and Marston’s choreography vibrates with suggestive detail. As Jane battles against her bullying Aunt Reed,her jagged, sideways jump, or her bullishly lowered head,her pummelling fists convey not only her volcanic mood but also her quickness of mind.
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Source: theguardian.com