Rafael Bonachela choreographed for Kylie, and no critic seemed to forget it. For Debra Crane at the Times, the comparison between his earlier work and the debut of his dance company was favourable, with the new production having "a mood ... a million miles away from Kylie: slivers of mournful sound, dance that shimmers with despair."
Unfortunately, the mood didn't shimmer as far as Luke Jennings at the Observer, who concluded, "Bonachela has toiled hard in contemporary dance's plotless middle ground, but his work has lacked that extra something." In the first piece, that something was the Basque vocal music's "sinister edge", in the second, his major fault was actually an addition: political, "ponderous symbolism [that] serves only to crowd his dancers off the stage."
The Telegraph's Mark Monahan appreciated the "energy" of the first piece, but wondered if, overall, "the evening was rather relentlessly po-faced," and whether "Bonachela seemed to be straying into territory that others have, in their different ways, already explored with total success." Still, he said, if Bonachela found his own voice (and he didn't seem to mean Kylie), "It could be pretty special."
