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Richard Alston Dance Company - The Devil in the Detail/About-Face/Volumina archiveContemporary 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. Richard Alston returns with a new programme of exhilarating choreography and inspirational music - from the style and sophistication of Scott Joplin to the thunderous echoes of Ligeti's mighty Volumina. The Devil in the Detail, Alston's brand new work, is a light-hearted, light-footed celebration of sheer elegance and wit. Scott Joplin, 'the King of Ragtime', wrote piano rags of huge appeal, rich in syncopated detail - it's music to make the dancers strut and stride in high style, yet remain cool and nonchalant in the face of the strenuous life. About-Face is company dancer Martin Lawrance's first commission for the Company. It captures the simplicity yet also the intricacy of Marin Marais' Suite dans un Goût Etranger, sublime seventeenth century music for viols. In Volumina, another brand new work by Alston, the air is filled with ghostly and subtle rustlings and suddenly erupting note-clusters. Ligeti's cavernous organ-piece thunders round the dancers, who dart back and forth, half-hidden in the shadows. Volumina is both spectacular and mysterious.

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Choreographer(s): Richard Alston (The Devil in the Detail / Volumina), Martin Lawrance (About Face)

Richard Alston Dance Company - The Devil in the Detail/About-Face/Volumina

Richard Alston Dance Company - The Devil in the Detail/About-Face/Volumina (Dance or ballet) production archive for QTIX code T01952139130. Details of all Richard Alston Dance Company - The Devil in the Detail/About-Face/Volumina archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S901

Archive Listings

9 May 06
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10 May 06
Playhouse
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
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11 Apr 06
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12 Apr 06
Haymarket Theatre
Leicester, Leicestershire
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29 Mar 06
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1 Apr 06
Sadler's Wells Theatre
Inner London, Greater London
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