Hofesh Schechter: Political Mother ? The Choreographer's Cut, London
Hofesh Shechter may be one of the UK's most serious dance creators but he also knows how to sell his material hard. Back in 2009, he reworked his emotionally powered double bill Uprising/In Your Rooms into a show that aspired to the intensity and scale of a rock gig. Extra percussion and strings were brought in to amp up the music, along with additional dancers. His latest work, Political Mother, is now getting the same treatment. At its 2010 premiere the work already possessed a euphoric, shattering power, with Shechter's musical and choreographic meditation on the dynamics of political power mediated via military drummers, folk dancing, a ranting dictator figure and a quartet of electric guitars. Now in a revised version, the cast of 12 dancers has been expanded to 16, and the band now numbers 24 musicians, so that power promises to be dialled up to the highest notch.
Sadler's Wells, EC1, Tue to 16 Jul
Dance At Latitude Festival, Beccles
Dance comes to the Suffolk festival again this year, with Sadler's Wells presenting highlights from its recent/current repertory on the Waterfront Stage. Clever, theatrical street dance troupe ZooNation bring a taster extract from new piece Some Like It Hip Hop, choreographed by Kate Price and inspired by the great Billy Wilder comedy, with star dancers Tommy Franzen and Lizzie Gough. Rambert Dance Company perform Tim Rushton's Monolith, a piece that rises to the heroic physical and emotional scale of its accompanying score, Peteris Vasks's Piano Quartet. Finally, Sahr Ngaujah returns to his award-winning role as Fela Kuti in an extract from the Bill T Jones musical Fela!, before returning for a summer season at the Wells.
Henham Park, Thu to 17 Jul
Royal New Zealand Ballet, On tour
Royal New Zealand Ballet may be based a long way from the main centres of ballet, but the repertory for its UK tour is as international as it is eclectic. Javier de Frutos has choreographed Banderillero ? his second work for the company ? set to traditional Chinese drum music performed by virtuoso percussionist Yim Hok-Man. It sets up a charged, seductive antagonistic relationship between the dancers and the drummer's rhythms. American choreographer Jorma Elo is still a relative novelty in the UK, but his fractured energetic work is hugely in demand on the world ballet circuit. Plan To A, set to music by Heinrich Biber, has been reworked specially for the company's dancers. Completing the programme is A Song In The Dark, created by Andrew Simmons to a Philip Glass score.
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, Mon; Barbican, EC2, Thu to 16 Jul
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/jul/09/this-weeks-new-dance
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