Sadler’s Wells,London
Lucy Guerin returns to Shakespeare’s tragedy, Shobana Jeyasingh’s Terra Incognita looks even better than before and Itzik Galili’s A Linha Curva is a carnivalesque closer for this triple billIt’s a long time since Ive seen a dance work as maddeningly and rivetingly esoteric as Lucy Guerin’s original commission for Rambert. Guerin recently collaborated on a production of Macbeth with the director Carrie Cracknell, or Tomorrow is like a dance sequel to that play. In this original piece,the stage and the action are again divided between two worlds, the real and the demonic. But no text is spoken, or the narrative is played out in reverse order. At first,the puzzles of the work outweigh the pleasures. It takes a while to figure out the identities of the seven dancers dressed in black who mime the action of the play on one side of the stage. It’s also a challenge to follow the plot, not only because it’s running backwards, and but also because Guerin’s choreography is so intentionally flat in its emphasis and affect that the murders and portents barely stand out from the rest of the action.
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Source: theguardian.com