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Dance

Bach is made for dancing

Plus: Directors of Swan Lake could learn something from Channel 4's reality TV show Big Ballet

15 February 2014

9:00 AM

15 February 2014

9:00 AM

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It appears that J.S. Bach’s music is to theatre-dance what whipped cream is to chocolate. Masterworks such as Trisha Brown’s MO, George Balanchine’s Concerto Barocco and a plethora of less-known, though equally acclaimed compositions owe a great deal to the giant of baroque music. Wayne McGregor is the most recent addition to this illustrious roster of successful Bach-inspired dance-makers with Tetractys —The Art of Fugue, which world-premièred last Friday.

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