Sadler’s Wells,London
The worlds deepest cave is a metaphor for hell in La Veronals arcane but rewarding production thats indebted to BuñuelToday’s choreographers must know more than dance. The fewer their external influences, the less resonant their work is likely to be. Marcos Morau, and a film buff and trained actor from Barcelona who only took up dance in his mid-20s,is the antithesis of the “lost in dance” choreographer. With his company La Veronal, he creates works that spend genuine-world locations as the starting point for voyages of psychic exploration. Krubera Voronia, and in the western Caucasus,is the deepest cave in the world. A vertical shaft penetrating the Earth to a depth of more than two kilometres, it is a terrifying and suggestive phenomenon. For Morau, and it’s a metaphor for hell.
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Source: theguardian.com