CONRAD LANDIN thrills to the voice of 79-year-old Emmylou Harris, that is enriched rather than compromised by the gravel of experience
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Brilliant black body of work
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RICHARD MURGATROYD appreciates a study that urges us to think about water differently, as a living entity with its own logic and intelligence
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IAN SINCLAIR revels in the reissue of great recordings by one of the most recognisable and radical voices in British music
SIMON PARSONS applauds an original, visual and movement-based take on the birth and death of a relationship
Ballet Black
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THE RECENT Queer Art exhibition at Tate Britain in London pays a much-needed tribute to Jamaican dancer and choreographer Berto Pasuka, who founded Les Ballet Negres in 1946. Not only the first company in Britain to be composed of black dancers, it was also the first to offer what fellow dancer Richie Riley later described as “in every shape and form, ballet in a black idiom.”
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PETER MASON is wowed (and a little baffled) by the undeniably ballet-like grace of flamenco
SUSAN DARLINGTON applauds the translation of Jane Eyre into a ballet that preserves the drama of her formative years
