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Beyond the body: Wayne McGregor stretches the definition of dance at this year’s Venice Dance Biennale

Beyond the body: Wayne McGregor stretches the definition of dance at this year’s Venice Dance Biennale
Culture | The Guardian

With the British dance legend at the helm, this year’s themes ranged from quantum gravity to slightly muted geopolitics The most memorable performance in the opening days of this year’s Venice Dance Biennale had barely any dance in it at all. Italian choreographer Andrea Salustri’s Invisible is built around movement, but it’s movement of light, air, water and sound waves, with Salustri and co-creator Alice Rende as shadowy figures conducting the elements. They brew up storms like Zeus and Poseidon, with flashing veins of light, sounds of pummelling rain (in fact small drips and bubbles amplifi

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