The vision of this Greek choreographer – tipped as a major talent of the future at London’s Dance Umbrella festival – is ‘beautifully different’ To write about contemporary dance is to sometimes find yourself wondering whether the emperor is wearing any clothes. Is this a profoundly game-changing performance, or just someone messing about on stage? Tonight the emperor is actually wearing jazzy monochrome cycling shorts, and she’s lying on the floor, in silence, with dimly-lit photos of walls and window ledges projected behind her. Later, the emperor – AKA Greek choreographer Georgia Vardarou – wears a gold poncho, or rather she crawls underneath it to become an inert metallic nugget. Nothing much happens after that. Continue reading...
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