He’s on impish form tonight, Richard Alston, and so should he be. This tour (possibly one of the company’s last)...
Glitter—this was one of the first details I noticed when I arrived at Wilderness Festival last Friday. The shimmery stuff...
Upstage, the company stands in line. As the music builds, the whirring tones of Julia Wolfe’s score for eight double...
“Dance is a fragile thing—it only exists in the moment you do it, and then it’s gone.” So Robert Cohan...
Music rarely takes a backseat to choreography for Richard Alston. The choreographer—a staple to Britain's modern dance scene and artistic director of Richard Alston Dance Company—is well known for crafting a symbiotic relationship between song and dance, his rep full of pieces in which these elements drink from and breathe life into one another in equal measure.
Watching Richard Alston Dance Company perform is like visiting a Rothko exhibition. It’s tidy, bright and expressive, confident in what...
