Synopsis
Snapshots of New Dance at the Royal Opera House Exposure: Dance presents short works by emerging choreographers including premieres of commissioned works by Alexander Whitley and aerialist Ilona Jantti. Alex, who has been nominated for the ?Critics' Circle Dance Award' as ?Outstanding Modern Male Performer' for his work with Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, draws on themes from Camus' L'Etranger with music by Finn McNicholas. Ilona Jantti presents a new aerial solo Handspun created in collaboration with the composer Luke Styles, an extract of whose work Fetus in America can be seen in Exposure: Opera. Jorge Crecis recreates his piece 36 with 12 dancers, described by one reviewer as "Sudoku brought to life but with no margin for error and with a pinball like focus" (Katie Fish, Londondance.com). Gary Clarke's Two Men & A Michael is a typically deadpan send up of stand-up comedy via the antics of Gilbert and George and Morecambe and Wise and performed for Exposure: Dance by Tom Roden and Pete Shenton of New Art Club fame. A different bite-sized dance work completes each performance, including Boy Blue Entertainment's Krump Buck-Amp, Shattered, a solo from Company Chameleon and the London premiere of Rachael Mossom's L'Uomo Uccelo. The award-winning duo Levantes Dance Theatre will welcome the audience to the Linbury Bar with pocket size Canap? Art performances, while the opportunity to meet the artists in the bar after the show completes this informal yet stimulating evening. Linbury Studio