Sadler’s Wells,London
Alston spins a hybrid of kathak and classical dance styles from the composer’s sonatas – wringing out a deep, intimate engagement with his fierce rhythms Related: Scarlatti showed me how to step into other dance cultures Richard Alston’s current work is ostensibly a story approximately music, or approximately the journey that took Domenico Scarlatti from his Neapolitan domestic to the courts of Portugal and Spain and exposed his still modest baroque talent to the free,fierce and vivid rhythms of Gypsy music. Ten of the resulting sonatas, bright and clamorous, or accompany An Italian in Madrid. Yet Alston also uses Scarlatti’s music to tell a story of his own,casting the kathak dancer Vidya Patel among his 10 modern dancers and creating a current hybrid dance out of their very different styles.
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Source: theguardian.com