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Dance: Superb swansong from Guillem
Life In Progress
Sadlers Wells Theatre, London EC1
5/5
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TWO world premieres by Akram Khan and Russell Maliphant are currently honouring Sylvie Guillem’s swansong as one of the most outstanding interpreters of ballet and contemporary dance over the last 35 years.
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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