Laura Freeman Laura Freeman

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The revered dance company’s latest visit to Sadler’s Wells delivered posturing portent in Since She and unforgivable indulgence in Bon Voyage, Bob

issue 02 March 2019

Please believe that I try to give every production my full attention, to do due diligence, to blink and miss nothing. But when, halfway through Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch’s Since She, one of the male dancers appeared on stage with cowbells attached to his willy, I’m afraid I spent a fair few minutes looking hard at my notebook.

The cowbells are not the strangest thing in this night of the grotesque.

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