DIALOGUES. TranscenDanses  

Mats Ek’s vivid spin on Shakespeare. the choreography’s lyrical underpinnings and fluid musicality, we see the fully realised woman that she might have been. The extended duet for the leads is a marvel, proceeding from hesitant, disbelieving mutual exploration to rushing cascades of joy. Ek’s movement language descriptive of both their outer and inner lives. mpromptus is a piece based on short Schubert’s works where vulnerability is part of Waltz’ movement vocabulary. Her dancers always move and are deployed in terms of their relation to one another and to the set. Technically magnificent, 14’20” has its simple and devastating beauty. Kylián plays radically with our restrictive perceptions of gender roles, and the meanings held by male and female bodies. The duet is a masterpiece of symbiosis.