Rambert Dance Company; Seven for a Secret…

This three part Rambert programme was charming, fresh and surprising, as ever accompanied by the stunning Rambert Orchestra.

Artistic Director Mark Baldwin’s playful new work, ‘Seven For A Secret, Never to be Told’, was thoughtful, fun and beautifully danced – lyrical and childlike. Javier De Frutos’s new work Elysian Fields inspired by Tennessee Williams was brilliantly staged and the orchestra’s interpretation of the dramatic score intensified the spoken storytelling. But the highlight was the surprisingly elegiac Roses by American dance icon Paul Taylor set to a score by Wagner and Baermann, a sweetly elegant tableaux of romantic relationships.

Theatre Royal Brighton, 29 March 2012

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