DLAR | Richard Alston Dance Company

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	< Overdrive “A Fast-paced, exhilarating work.” –David Dougill, The Sunday Times “Terry Riley’s Keyboard Study No.1 ignites a whirlwind of leaping and turning…with a finesse that is so precise and yet seems utterly spontaneous” –Mary Brennan, The Herald “Alston at his finest, driving the 11 dancers through a series of beautifully lit duets, trios and ensemble moments. A genuine please to watch.” –Kelley Apter, The Scotsman “a high-octane finale” –Jann Parry, The Observer “a high-energy outpouring of kaleidoscopic, sharp-accented movement” –David Dougill, The Sunday Times “a pure romp…currents of swinging striding dance that ride alongside Terry Riley’s score.” –Judith Mackrell, The Guardian “[Alston] turns the stage into an expanse on which music and movement meet for a mutually rewarding, refreshing, uplifting ride.” –Newsday

	< Touch and Go “Alston's fluid writing plays with nimble sensual connections” –Debra Craine, The Times “there is a haunting sense of erotic possibility that lingers around each beautifully lit and sculpted move.” –Judith Mackrell, The Guardian “The beauty of this work lies in its sheer dance sweep, in the sensuous cascade of its rhythm and in the plucked, percussive, plush energy of those feet.” –Alastair Macaulay, Financial Times “Touch and Go is his finest and most intoxicating work for six years.” –Alastair Macaulay, Financial Times “an unexpected pleasure... sheer, joyful spontaneity” –Clifford Bishop, The Sunday Times “in pace and pause, in ensembles, solos or duets, the dancers brought vitality and vivacity to its high speed intricacies.” –Kathrine Sorley Walker, Dancing Times “neat, nifty, syncopated, tender, mysterious” –David Dougill, The Sunday Times “a definite crowd-pleaser” –Debra Craine, The Times “a full-bodied dance form that has couples feinting and diving at tumbling speed within each other's orbit” –Judith Mackrell, The Guardian “the most exhilarating new work by a British choreographer in the past six years” –Alastair Macaulay, Times Literary Supplement

	< Red Run “From this edgy soundscape Alston's dance rediscovers the tense, unpredictable energy that marks his greatest work.” –Judith Mackrell, The Guardian “The whole work exists in a perfect tension between order and chaos, clamor and stillness. It is danced with fine ferocity by a company that looks, suddenly bold and wise beyond its years.” –Judith Mackrell, The Guardian “This is dance in the purest sense… Who needs props and plots when you can have choreography as good as this?” –Debra Craine, The Times “one of AIston's best works” –Debra Craine, The Times “The savage, clashing components of Heiner Goebbel's score create a kind of musical pressure chamber in which the concentrated lines of Alston's choreography jangle, boil and threaten dangerously to explode” –The Guardian “forceful, eccentric, strong-flavored” –Alastair Macaulay, Financial Times “a keen sense of theatre and a rewardingly rich amount of dance invention.” –Kathrine Sorley Walker, Dancing Times

	< Fever “sensuously crafted lines of choreography that seem to caress its seven dancers.. voluptuous choreography with its intimations of longing and desire” –Debra Craine, The Times “(Fever) explores the emotions in Monteverdi madrigals, in the lush versions by Concerto Italiano… dances which sail along on their music, dip occasionally into its psychic depths and surface again” –Clement Crisp, The Financial Times

	< A Sudden Exit “Very fine indeed” –Clement Crisp, Ballet 2000 “This is Alston creating at his potent and poignant best” –David Dougill, The Sunday Times “a small masterpiece.” –Jenny Gilbert, Independent on Sunday “the dance - very strong, clear, shaped in big sweeps of activity - looks inevitable, and wrung from the heart... It is a fine, dark-hued work of art.” –Clement Crisp, Financial Times “this meditation on aloneness and the pangs of letting go… is Alston at his most introspective and personal… slipping quietly into one’s subconscious as the centerpiece of the evening” –Donald Hutera, The Times

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