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Article: meltdown misery Rambert Dance Co La La La Human Steps Fabulous Beast
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- February 10, 2008
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Britney who? Suddenly even high-court judges and dance critics
are up to speed on the child-star-turned-train-wreck, thanks to the
latest media feeding frenzy. The sorry Spears saga is still a work
in progress, but that didn't hinder Hubert Essakow from taking her
life as the material for his Meltdown which premiered at Rambert's
choreographic showcase last weekend.
I'm not sure that dance is the ideal medium for unpicking a
complex story of this kind; and even if it were, Essakow does not
yet appear qualified for the job. Meltdown isn't a particularly
offensive or sensationalist treatment but it reduces the singer's
unfathomable miseries to a string of banal snapshots charting her
decline ...