Child's Play
Co. Un Yamada, a dance company and creative collective established in Tokyo in 2002, returned to the New National Theatre Tokyo last week to reprise their popular family-friendly production from 2021, “Obachetta.”
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Like two cicadas advancing, springing instep with each other, Tra Mi Dinh and Rachel Coulson manifest from the shadows of the deep stage of the new Union Theatre. “Seven dances for two people,” the first of three works presented as part of Lucy Guerin Inc’s “Pieces,” in a new collaboration with University of Melbourne Arts and Culture (UMAC), summons a world beyond as the framework of the theatre falls away, or so it feels from my vantage in the stalls on opening night. Lightly, as if winged, in Dinh’s “Seven dances for two people,” there may be two, but it seems a familiar buzzing chorus at the end of a hot day. A loud, buzzing chorus of cicadas to signal a united front to predators; an orchestral deterrent clicking, perhaps there is more.
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Co. Un Yamada, a dance company and creative collective established in Tokyo in 2002, returned to the New National Theatre Tokyo last week to reprise their popular family-friendly production from 2021, “Obachetta.”
PlusVous les voyez, les étoiles dans la salle?” the woman next to me whispered as the lights dimmed. And indeed, the stalls glittered with former stars of the Paris Opéra Ballet— dancers I recognised, visibly moved and deep in conversation during the interval.
PlusThere is probably no more beloved ballet, by audiences and dancers alike, than “Romeo and Juliet.”
PlusIn 2017 Virginie Mécène reimagined the lost Martha Graham solo “Ekstatis.” A review from that Martha Graham Dance Company premiere ended with a strong vote of confidence from critic Gia Kourlas: “Ms. Mécène should keep going.”
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