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Dance

Perfect dancing but boringly beautiful

The dancing in their new Sadler's Wells show, Sehnsucht/Schmetterling, may have been perfect, but it was also boring

12 July 2014

9:00 AM

12 July 2014

9:00 AM

Sehnsucht/Schmetterling

Nederlands Dans Theater 1, Sadler’s Wells

Aesthetically speaking, last week’s performance by the Nederlands Dans Theater 1 was one by the slickest of the season. Fashionably engineered juxtapositions of black and white, sets that stun on account of their elegant simplicity and mechanical complexity, chic costumes that de-gender dancers, scores decadently à la mode and clockwork dancing came together seamlessly to make a powerful visual impact.

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