Brighton Festival
Three very different events feature in this week’s festival dance programme. In Fragments – Volume 1 (Brighton Dome Corn Exchange, Tue), Canadian Sylvain Emard creates solos and duets inspired by the personalities of four performers: three dancers and the veteran actor Monique Miller. His detailed, visceral style of movement captures both the inner lives of the quartet and their distinctive physical presences. The bold and brilliant disabled dancer Claire Cunningham takes inspiration from the work of Hieronymus Bosch in a confrontational study of history’s treatment of disabled people (The Old Market, Tue & Wed). Finally, in Carousel (The Level, Fri & 23 May), Southpaw Dance Company creates colourful dance-theatre from the world of travelling fairgrounds.
Various venues, to 24 May
Boris Charmatz, London
The French conceptual dance-maker Boris Charmatz is in town, curating and performing an intriguing programme of work. Over the weekend, he takes over Tate Modern, heading a team of around 90 dancers in an unfolding series of performances, some in the great space of the Turbine Hall, others disseminated throughout the museum’s galleries. During the rest of the week, Charmatz moves to Sadler’s Wells, presenting the hybrid performance/installation work Manger, plus a duet with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, set to the music of Bach.
Tate Modern, SE1, Sat; Sadler’s Wells, EC1, Sun to 23 May,
