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Vinod Kumar (audience)
Date: 18 July 2010
Hi,
Dancers like me in India would love to learn from you.. You should have classes outside UK as well, precisely in India.
Thanks
ML (audience)
Date: 02 July 2010
Cruel is an absolutely beautiful show. The choreography is gorgeous and the dancers are in turns graceful and precise. The relationships between the dancers are expressed wonderfully and the whole show is a pleasure to watch. Deborah Colker and her company have reminded me why I love dance, and I would be happy to revisit them again and again.
J Blaiklock (audience)
Date: 30 June 2010
All 4 of us were very disappointed at the show at Aberdeen.What we saw was not at all as the show had been advertised 3 people near us did not return for the second half. The music was too loud.
I suggest the use of sur titles (as in opera) might explain what you are trying to convey and therefore make for a more enjoyable show
Hattie Harding (audience)
Date: 21 June 2010
Thoroughly enjoyed watching this at the Millennium Centre, Cardiff. Breathtaking technical skill from the dancers and a real sense of engagement with the subject matter. Wonderfully inventive use of props and music which served as a platform to explore the themes and further show off the dancer’s and choreographer’s skill and creativity. Lovely to be able to hear the dancer’s enthusiasm for their art at the after show Q&A.
Gill Hands (audience)
Date: 25 May 2010
My poet brain was inspired so I wrote my review as a poem...
Cruel-A Ballet
I
Endless procession
of the dance of yin and yang,
swirling play of a thousand sultry nights.
Fractured symmetry;
some are lost to
the still shadows.
II
Embracing forms illuminate
the close embrace of skin.
Silent supplicants
entwined around rapture,
suddenly released into the air
defying natural laws.
Powerful tenderness and rage
laid bare upon the table.
The shimmering angel
of knives that shatter hearts.
A cruel walk.
III
Exploring the breathtaking edge
of hidden balance.
The self dissolving
in the dark–eyed mirror.
Gus MacLeod (audience)
Date: 22 May 2010
There's something disconcerting about watching a dance performance involving, large sharp-pointed knives and dancers in bare feet. But the fearless dancers of Deborah Colker's company take the (sometimes close) juxtaposition in their stride along with all the other considerable demands of 'Cruel', an extraordinary show exploring the darker side of human interaction. As with Colker's early dance pieces, her use of props - mirrors which swivel and rotate through which the dancers climb; a large moving table on top of which and below the dancers move with grace and awesome timing - is astonishing. Always they add to the atmosphere being created rather than being used as a gimmick. If you haven't seen a Deborah Colker show, travel if you need to to see this one.
Alice (audience)
Date: 16 May 2010
Saw the show last night and thought it was amazing. Absolutely loved the big globe of light in the first section and the mirrors at the end. Definately a must-see!
Orna Rosenthal (audience)
Date: 16 May 2010
I liked the first part of Cruel very much! The second part was good but not as the first part. It felt as there was more attention on technical aspects of the movements and the control of the mirrors and the internal human aspects were secondary and more flat.
One more thing - I feel very disappointed from the program which I bought before the performance - I paid the money expecting to find information/explanation about Cruel but there was only information about the dancer and Deborah etc but nothing about the specific performance. I feel cheated - I paid for information and got only advertisement...
Anyhow, you are doing a good job. well done.
Diane Parks, Birmingham Post
Date: 16 May 2010
Brazilian choreographer Deborah Colker's work never fails to surprise and thrill audiences and this latest work is as exciting as ever.
With strong physicality and incredible dexterity and energy, the cast explore many facets of cruelty.
This gives the dance a sometimes jagged edge and a harsh brutality as the artists force their bodies between the forms of other dancers and twist partners away.
Colker has been working with Cirque du Soleil and there is a real circus element to this piece. Not only in the acrobatic movements of the dancers but also in the humorous breaking of illusions and the creation of a perception only to smash it.
Nick Ahad, Yorkshire Post
Date: 14 May 2010
First off, bravo Bradford for persevering with this work.
The management of the theatre is bound to look at a theatre half-empty. I saw a theatre half-full, with an audience willing to take a risk on contemporary dance.
The Dance Consortium has been working to bring this medium to British audiences since
the turn of the century, and that this kind of work is seen outside London is fantastic.
Brazilian Deborah Colker is one of the world's leading choreographers. Cruel, presented in two acts, is at times a fantastic beast and at others a thing of beauty.
The stunning images created with bodies in motion in the first act are breathtaking and, contrary to the image dance sometimes has, fantastically accessible.
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