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Exhilarating – but also exhausting: ENB’s The Forsythe Programme reviewed

Plus: I am relenting to the melancholy seductions of Trajal Harrell

Rupert Christiansen
He makes his dancers sweat, and they love it: English National Ballet dancers performing William Forsythe’s Herman Schmerman (Quintet) © PHOTOGRAPHY BY ASH
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 19 April 2025
issue 19 April 2025

The first time I saw the work of Trajal Harrell I stomped out in a huff muttering about the waste of public money and is this what the art of dance has come to. But perversely I was drawn back for more of its weirdness, and after The Köln Concert I am relenting.

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