Danish Dance Theatre
Yesterday, on the spur of the moment, I got a bargain student ticket to see the Danish Dance Theatre (£5 instead of £20 - win). I happened to get put in the best seat in the house, third row, middle seat - my eyes were level with the dancer’s navels basically, and they were only a few feet from me. I could hear every breath they made. They did three pieces; Enigma, CaDance, and Kridt (which translates ‘chalk’). The first dance was like circles of courtship, couples meeting and parting. The second was a macho five-man dance fight. The third was based on Ecclesiastes; a man thinking about his life and what had been, before he died.
Literally - I can’t express how incredible these dancers were. I never knew humans could move like that. All of the dancers were classically trained, so the choreography was a mixture of ballet’s grace and elegance and contemporary dance’s stark minimal moves. Stunning. GO.
