Rambert Dance Company - 21/Living Toys/Elsa Canasta

Dance or ballet :: show/work:S887, production/tour:T27653968

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3 Dec 03 to 6 Dec 03

Rambert Dance Company - 21/Living Toys/Elsa Canasta Dance or ballet :: listing:L0489366293, production:T27653968, show:S887, venue: V895

Theatre Royal Plymouth Devon

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Britain's biggest and most exciting touring dance company who often tour two programmes at a time. Dancing to a mixture of musical styles they provide enormously watchable evenings. 21 - Rambert dancer and choreographer Rafael Bonachela] has collaborated with Kylie Minogue and her creative team to produce a work that explores pure physical expression and the meaning of celebrity and adoration. Living ToysKarole Armitage's first work for Rambert, Living Toys transports us into that precarious state where dreams and consciousness merge. Inspired by Thomas Ades's somewhat sinister and surreal score of the same title, Living Toys is performed by all of Rambert's 22 dancers and accompanied by London Musici. Elsa Canasta is the second work to be created for Rambert by Javier De Frutos and is performed to music and songs by the ever-popular Cole Porter, including a rare score Porter wrote in 1923. With a cast of 14 dancers, the timeless ambiguity of Porter's compositions is the trigger for Javier's personal choreographic response.
Choreographer Rafael Bonachela (21). Music Benjamin Wallfisch (21). Choreographer Karole Armitage (Living Toys). Music Thomas Ades (Living Toys). Choreographer Javier De Frutos (Elsa Canasta). Music Cole Porter (Elsa Canasta).