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Playing effortlessly with the tension between classical and contemporary vocabulary, the neat order of carefully structured steps combines with ecstatic movement in a blissful interpretation and Childs’s signature clean and precise style is aided and abetted by gorgeous lighting, costume and stage design from Dominique Drillot.
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