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. Pond Way can be described as one of Merce Cunningham's 'nature studies'. It is a contemplative, often sensuous piece, with the movement being reminiscent of the game of skimming stones over a pond, which Cunningham loved to play as a child. The production is enriched with a backcloth from the artist Roy Lichtenstein and a soundscape by composer Brian Eno. bloom by Aletta Collins, is performed to infectious Romanian gypsy rhythms and has characters crashing in and out of focus in a giddy world and chaotic encounters. Collins' work spans dance, theatre, opera and film and bloom is her first collaboration with Rambert. L S Lowry - To mark the 30th anniversary of the death of British artist LS Lowry, former artistic director of Phoenix Dance Theatre, Darshan Singh Bhuller, creates a new work, taking his inspiration from Lowry's approach to his paintings and response to his surroundings. Rambert Dance Company - Pond Way/Bloom/Stand and Stare website.| 6 Dec 06 to 9 Dec 06 | Theatre Royal Plymouth Plymouth, Devon Performance Details => Venue archive |
| 4 Oct 06 to 6 Oct 06 | Theatre Royal Norwich, Norfolk Performance Details => Venue archive |
