The Company is one of three nominees for the Dance Award alongside the Royal Ballet and Phoenix Dance Theatre, whilst dancer Jonathan Goddard is one of ten nominees for the South Bank Show/Times Newspaper Breakthrough Award. RADC has also been nominated for a 2006 Critics' Circle National Dance Award in the category Company Prize for Outstanding Repertoire (Modern).
The Company's Sadler's Wells show promises an evening of contrasts. Richard Alston newest work, as yet untitled, celebrates the pure and focused genius of Bach and is centred on his remarkable Capriccio. These pieces for keyboard, played by Alston's long-term collaborator Jason Ridgway, form a complex frame on which Alston weaves a rich and flowing dance. The new work will be performed alongside Red Run from 1998 and last year's smash hit, The Devil in the Detail.
The Devil in the Detail is a light-hearted, light-footed celebration of elegance and wit. Alston's dancers strut and stride in high style to piano rags by 'the King of Ragtime' Scott Joplin, played live by Ridgway. The dark and shadowy Red Run embraces the spirit of its atmospheric score by the German composer Heiner Goebbels.
Brink, the latest work from dancer Martin Lawrance, is inspired by perhaps the most unusual music Lawrance has ever used - Japanese tango music played on the accordion! Brink promises to be every bit as quirky as its score and will see Lawrance dance in his own choreography for the company for the first time. -- www.theplace.org.uk
Posted January 30th, 2007 by ruzik_tuzik
