The Red String Duet and Minutes of Silence – review - Dance

The Red String Duet and Minutes of Silence – review

Christchurch works carry a promise of renewed confidence.

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27th October, 2012

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A lone male figure stood atop a grand piano and scrutinised audience members as they took their places – his sense of quiet observation and isolation reminiscent of a statue soldier on a cenotaph. A large rectangular screen on the concrete stage floor carried disorienting images of super-magnified veins of leaves that moved across it at a dizzying pace. The dancer, Paul Young, now prone, crawled across the floor as the images flew over his body. He crumpled the screen – revealed as a sheet of paper – with his movement until it resembled heaved-up land. It was a simple yet eloquent opening ...

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