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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lyndsey Winship

Marking Time review – Nico Muhly inspires a brilliant night of beguiling dance

Sam Amidon (top) in The Only Tune by Michael Keegan-Dolan, part of Marking Time at Sadler's Wells, London.
Pure theatre … Sam Amidon (top) in The Only Tune by Michael Keegan-Dolan, part of Marking Time at Sadler's Wells, London. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian

If you thought we had exhausted shows that were postponed by Covid, here is one more. The Composer series at Sadler’s Wells presents a night of new choreography set to the work of a single composer and this time it’s the turn of American Nico Muhly, no stranger to the world of dance.

Three very different choreographers tackle his music: Jules Cunningham, Maud Le Pladec and Michael Keegan-Dolan. The first two have broadly similar approaches. The dance listens closely to the endlessly imaginative textures of the score and chooses when to mimic – a shake of the knees to match a vibrato string, for example – and when to diverge.

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