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.
Upstage, the company stands in line. As the music builds, the whirring tones of Julia Wolfe’s score for eight double...
He’s on impish form tonight, Richard Alston, and so should he be. This tour (possibly one of the company’s last)...
“Dance is a fragile thing—it only exists in the moment you do it, and then it’s gone.” So Robert Cohan...
Glitter—this was one of the first details I noticed when I arrived at Wilderness Festival last Friday. The shimmery stuff...
There are two very distinct strands to Richard Alston’s choreography. The first is a provocative, experimental path, where Alston’s eccentric...