Ruth Leon recommends… Vertikal

Ruth Leon recommends… Vertikal

Ruth Leon recommends

norman lebrecht

November 02, 2022

Vertikal

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After tackling the third dimension with Pixel, Choreographer Mourad Merzouki teams up here with aerial-technique specialist Compagnie Retouramont to open up a new field of hip-hop possibility.

“The dancer’s relationship with the floor is totally altered,” he says. “The dancer is by turns the base and a marionette animated by the counterweight of his partners.”

With a strings/electronic score by Armand Amar, Vertikal marks out new vanishing points in space, while retaining the vocabulary of hip-hop dance.
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