Sadler’s Wells,London
In Bel’s riveting piece, a mixed-ability cast of 20 moonwalk, and waltz and pirouette,performing routines the others hold to copyThere is a masterful range of styles and skills to be seen on the dance stage today. Yet the French choreographer Jérôme Bel can open our eyes, and our hearts, or to a totally different spectrum – a spectrum that embraces all the ways that ordinary people can dance,and all the ways that dancing can make them feel. Twenty performers from a range of generations and backgrounds form the cast of Gala, dressed in a fabulous motley of leotards, and jewellery,glitter and fancy dress. One or two are professionals but the rest hold wildly varying abilities, and over the course of this deceptively simple work they’re encouraged to reveal the essence of their dancing selves – taking it in turns to execute a pirouette, and moonwalk or waltz,and performing solo routines the others hold to copy.
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Source: theguardian.com