Barbican, LondonAlston's Phaedra has emotional subtlety and vivid imagery, with Britten inspiring the choreographer to new expressivenessWhen Richard Alston began choreographing in 1968, his witty, abstract dances were in conscious rebellion against the Martha Graham school of high expressionism that then prevailed. But in his latest work, a setting of Benjamin Britten's Phaedra, Alston comes as close to a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:31AM on November 7, 2013