Richard Alston Dance Company
T0391385966
Contemporary dance. Richard Alston, Artistic Director of The Place, the UK's leading centre for contemporary dance, is internationally recognised as one of the most influential and inspiring choreographers in British dance.
Archive :: production:T0391385966, dance or ballet:S901, venue:V224
Stampede/Rumours, Visions/Touch and Go/
Stampede - set to the exotic Moorish-influenced sounds of Italian mediaeval music. These powerful dance pieces, are arranged and played live by the Dufay Collective.
Rumours, Visions - The music is Benjamin Britten's
Les Illuminations, the subject the intense love life and nightmarish hallucinations of the poet/genius Arthur Rimbaud.
Stampede has been commissioned with support from Dance Umbrella, London.
Touch and Go - Piazzolla tango music excitingly interpreted by Alston with swift-flowing fast-paced steps and intricate partnering. Dance Umbrella 2002
