Swank jewellers Van Cleef & Arpels are the big spenders of contemporary dance. Their Dance Reflections festival adorns major capitals — last in London in 2022, it returns with another collection of work roaming from the classy to the cutting-edge.
The opening piece, in Sadler’s Wells’ compact Lilian Baylis Studio, was by French artist Christian Rizzo, named for a Turkish proverb: an over-protected eye always gets sand in it. The 2012 solo on “melancholy and exile” can feel as much a slog as the title. A long 50 minutes begins with Kerem Gelebek perched on an upended box, with beanie and backpack. He spells HERE in red letters and starts to build a sense of home.
