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Dance: Superb swansong from Guillem
Life In Progress
Sadlers Wells Theatre, London EC1
5/5
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Life In Progress comprises two works and the first, Akran Kham’s techne, is a solo work accompanied by live musicians onstage.
It has Guillem emerging from a primordial state as she explores the uniqueness of her corporeal self, first as a quadruped and then as dancer in submission to nature.
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