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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. Gypsy Mixture takes off from the guttural and Eastern influenced voices of Romanian and Macedonian gypsies, re-mixed by DJs from such distant parts of the globe as Chile and Brazil. The result is extraordinary, a truly heady brew of traditional and contemporary. Fever gives us lush velvet dancing to the glorious madrigals of Claudio Monteverdi, infused with all the sensuality and warmth of Italy. Alston's new work , Such Longing is played live to the achingly beautiful meditations of Chopin's Nocturnes and Etudes. Filled with melancholy and nostalgia for his Polish homeland, this is Chopin in lyrical and introspective mood.