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Susan Darlington reviews Recreation by Yorkshire Dance, Leeds
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
MATTHEW HAWKINS welcomes an engaging and nourishing account of the queer subculture that flourished in London between WWII and partial decriminalisation
RON JACOBS welcomes the political lessons for today, about organisation and withdrawal from conflict, made by an erudite and conversational biography
THERE’S a growing interest in “slow television” which can be traced back to Andy Warhol’s 1963 conceptual film Sleep and, as an adjunct to this, Gillie Kleiman is seemingly exploring slow choreography with Recreation.
The one-hour show, an invitation to consider work and relaxation and to “blur the distinction between being active and being receptive,” sets out to achieve the latter by making the audience performers and vice versa by introducing two invited dancers onstage to join the core cast of three.
As a concept, it has tantalising potential but this experimental production fails to realise it on almost every level.
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