Performance from the age of 12
Richard Alston and his Company are internationally acclaimed for Alston’s meticulous attention to music and for the Company’s wonderful dancing. Proverb and Other Dances, the programme for Open Stage, shows the diversity and range of Alston’s inspiration and invention. Fast steps and abandoned fervour fuel Alston’s latest creation to Brahms’s Hungarian Dances. In sharp contrast is the cool beauty of Proverb to music of the same name by American composer Steve Reich.
Proverb was choreographed to celebrate Mr Reich’s Seventieth Birthday and has been specially revived for this Autumn to celebrate Mr Alston’s seventieth birthday. The words sung in Proverb are by Ludwig Wittgenstein -“How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life”. Alston has filled three quarters of his life working as a choreographer and his work has gradually developed the mastery of a truly mature artist. This is the first time his work has been seen in Poland since Ballet Rambert appeared in the Lodz Biennale over thirty years ago.
