- The Unknown Soldier, a new work by Alastair Marriott to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the Great War.
- Infra by Wayne McGregor
- Symphony in C by Balanchine
In the first piece the dance was mixed with filmed recollections by a veteran soldier and by a woman who had fallen for one of the boys going off to war only to have him reported killed in action. This was very effective for me and conveyed the reality and horror better than the dance which by its nature is beautiful rather than evocative of the trenches. However, the dancers - Matthew Ball and Yasmine Naghdi - illustrated the story very clearly and the arrival of the telegraph boy was a particular scene that sticks in the mind.
Infra, I had seen before and again was struck by the extraordinary feats of the dancers who achieve movements that seem easy and yet impossible. With music by Max Richter, the work features an LED screen above the dancers conveying the city crowd going about their day and contributing to the sense of anomie / alienation that the work puts across.
Symphony in C seemed an overall jolly pieces with the dancers in tutus and music by Bizet. A good send-off into the winter night.
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