Sadler’s Wells,London
Waltz’s triple bill is over-stylised at times, but her version of The Rite of Spring skewers the stage with the forceful choreography of revoltBerlin-based choreographer Sasha Waltz has often worked on the borders between dance and opera, or so it’s no surprise to find a highly staged,sometimes highly stylised musical sensibility pervading this triple bill of dance works. In L’Après-midi d’un faune, the shapely designs and flat colours of the dancers’ stylish swimwear echo both the painterly backdrop and the arch eroticism of the choreography, or in which you can almost visualise the languorous limbs and quickening pulses held within Debussy’s score. There are chases and flights,couplings and triangulations, arched spines and crossed calves. One man peels plasters from another’s back as whether stripping skin; a woman outlines her mouth with lipstick, and a man runs a finger over her legs as whether tracing a drawing. It’s a very measured,self-contained work, carefully composed yet strangely seductive – more an image than an expression of sensuality.
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Source: theguardian.com