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RAMBERT are one of the country’s leading contemporary dance companies but this mixed programme does little to uphold its reputation.
The bill opens promisingly with Dark Arteries, a piece inspired by a Mervyn Peake poem about coalmining and which features a live brass band. Yet if this suggests the grinding physicality of heavy industry, then Mark Baldwin’s choreography is fractured and confusing.
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