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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. Richard Alston's brand new UNFINISHED BUSINESS is danced to the beautiful, lucid and flowing music of Mozart - the two movements of an unfinished piano sonata, Opus K533. To these, Alston has added an extraordinary arrangement of Mozart's brilliant Gigue in D by the Italian virtuoso Federico Busoni, creating a third movement and bringing things to a rousing close. Commissioned by The Marlowe Theatre, Sadler's Wells and Peak Performances @ Montclair State (NJ), A CEREMONY OF CAROLS is another new work from Alston, choreographed to Benjamin Britten's masterpiece for boys' voices and harp. The music is of magisterial simplicity, conjuring up a rich world of rapt and devout adoration; the dance is a celebration of a sheer surge of breath, a pure stream of sound. The evening's triple bill is completed by a revival of Richard Alston's iconic ROUGHCUT, made in 1990 and probably his best-loved signature piece. It is danced to the peals of Steve Reich's shimmeringly beautiful New York and Electric Counterpoints for clarinet and guitar. This is a rare chance to see one of the defining classics of British dance. "Sends you home cloud-high" Sunday Times. Roughcut was made to celebrate the exuberance of the dancers with whom Alston was working at the time - it's a euphoric display of pure energy. RADC's 2011 company of dancers has the same sort of energy, encouraging Alston to revive the piece for the first time in ten years.