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Article: Arts: WEEK IN REVIEW
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 26, 1997
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Copyright informationCopyright 1997 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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THE DANCE
Hotel
A double-bill set in a hotel, libretto by Caryl Churchill, music
by Orlando Gough and choreography by Ian Spink for dance-theatre
company Second Stride. "Eight Rooms" superimposes separate couples
over one night with 13 singers, piano duet and bass; "Two Nights"
is a dance-led tale of mortality for two dancers and chorus.
Paul Taylor praised "Eight Rooms", "a densely-layered modern
opera", but was slightly less sure of "Two Nights" although he
pointed to its "strange, suggestive power". "The musical-verbal
effect is much like one of Sondheim's more glibly cynical essays in
people-watching. But repetition - always a key Second Stride device
- starts to become more deeply ...
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