Laura Freeman Laura Freeman

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Plus: Richard Alston offers up the super, soporific and meh at Sadler’s Wells

  • Richard Alston Dance Company – Quartermark

    Sadler’s Wells

  • Frankenstein

    Royal Opera House, in rep until 23 March

Choreographer Richard Alston is now 70 and his latest outing at Sadler’s Wells is a greatest hits medley. As with all clip shows, some of it is super, some soporific and some merely meh. We begin with Martin Lawrance’s Detour, first performed last year. The piece is a powerful hybrid of fluid dance and martial arts: kung fu meets pas de deux.

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