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Richard Alston’s company marks it 20th anniversary with this production of four richly diverse works, choreographed by Alston and Martin Lawrence, who some regard as his natural successor.
The latter is responsible for Burning, inspired by the music and febrile love life of composer Franz Liszt, in which Liam Riddick and Nancy Nerantzi’s duet to the Dante Sonata thrillingly captures the thrust and thunder of all-consuming passion.
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