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Rambert’s triple-decker fails to satisfy
Susan Darlington reviews the Rambert Dance Company at the Alhambra Theatre, Bradford/Touring

3/5

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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