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Shechter II: In the Brain review – a thrilling release of rave and ritual
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London Hofesh Shechter’s latest doesn’t break new ground, but its exceptional dancers throw themselves into a moody, pulse-quickening celebration of communal movement It may be 38 years since the second summer of love, three decades since the dance music boom of the early 90s, but on the contemporary dance stage, rave is still peaking. In recent years, you’ve barely been able to move for dancers letting loose to repetitive beats, in tribal gatherings and transcendent ones. Hofesh Shechter’s dance has always had that rhythmic pull of the dancefloor – he writes his own beat
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