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Dance

Sylvie Guillem’s better than ever in her final, final Coliseum farewell

Plus: Carlos Acosta gets his kit off in Cubiana at the Royal Opera House

15 August 2015

9:00 AM

15 August 2015

9:00 AM

Sylvie Guillem — Life in Progress

London Coliseum

Carlos Acosta: Cubanía

Royal Opera House

La Sylphide

London Coliseum

The blackness that sweeps along the stage behind Sylvie Guillem’s disappearing figure in the Russell Maliphant piece on her farewell tour is an astonishing moment. One flinches. An eclipse has happened and the light has just run away with her. All gone. Michael Hulls’s momentous lighting states Guillem’s intentions as clearly as Elias Benxon’s filmwork in the closing piece, Mats Ek’s Bye, which shows this singular performer quitting her elite world of imagemaking and humbly, nervously, going out to join the masses in the street.

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