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Dance: Remarkable WWI requiem
Lest We Forget — Barbican Centre, London EC2
MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
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On the face of it a dance programme commemorating the onset of the first world war might seem a lightweight proposition.
But Lest We Forget is both a vision of the hell of those distant battlefields and a comment on the war’s destructive impact on society.
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