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The Place, London
AFTER so many months of Covid-enforced privation, I shared the audience’s palpable pleasure at being back at The Place, London’s deliberately inexpensive centre for international experimental and innovatory modern dance.
Its usual friendly, unpretentious ambience from staff and audience was dominated by the young, some of whom appeared to have arrived fresh from the centre’s dance class or rehearsal.
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