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Dance

Another triumph for Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young at Sadler’s Wells

14 March 2020

9:00 AM

14 March 2020

9:00 AM

Crystal Pite & Jonathon Young/ Kidd Pivot — Revisor

Sadler’s Wells

Richard Alston Dance Company –Final Edition

Sadler’s Wells

It must have been hard for Crystal Pite and Jonathan Young to live up to the success of 2016’s devastating Betroffenheit. In Revisor, their imaginative retelling of Nikolai Gogol’s satirical comedy of errors The Government Inspector (Revizor in the original Russian), Pite and Young draw on familiar techniques: dancers from Pite’s company, Kidd Pivot, lip-sync to actors’ voiceovers, their movements synchronising with, or playing off, the text.

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