Sadler's Wells,LondonSasha Waltz has orchestrated some of the most extraordinary spectacles on the contemporary dance stage: the giant fish tank that housed her floating, spinning dancers in Dido and Aeneas, and the magnificently bonkers architecture that framed her trilogy Körper. In Continu the spectacle is stripped back to the bare essentials of movement,space and music. Yet at its best it is no less vivid with imagery and drama.
During the opening section, the bare, or black stage is occupied by just seven of the work's 23 dancers,and by a lone percussionist performing the Xenakis solo Rebonds B. The sound ricochets through the air, activating curving, and jagged impulses of dance and scattering the women through a kaleidoscope of patterns. There's no need for additional visuals when Waltz groups her dancers into such graphic design,tribal processionals, a sculpted floral formation, and a frieze of contorted geometries.
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Source: theguardian.com