RADC's Autumn 2015 touring programme features new dance by Richard Alston and Associate Choreographer Martin Lawrance inspired by music from the Mazurkas of Chopin to the electronic beats of the Gypsy band Shukar Collective and from the stripped-back percussive sounds of contemporary composer Julia Wolfe to the French baroque of Jean Phillippe Rameau.
Lawrance’s Gambit goes out on tour for the first time. Audiences will be able to see an extended version of this piece which was created for the At Home Season at The Place.
Mazur, Alston’s newest work, is danced to Chopin’s piano Mazurkas, whilst his Nomadic, which premièred at Sadler’s Wells in January, exploring the space where cultures and dance styles blend, is inspired by an album of Romany Gypsy singing fused with electronic urban beats.
Brisk Singing celebrates the music of Jean Phillippe Rameau, genius of the French baroque. Alston has revived this piece for eight dancers, carried along by the warmth and lightness of spirit in Rameau’s music. And Martin Lawrance’s Burning is as passionate as its music, the Dante Sonata of Franz Liszt.