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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lyndsey Winship

National Dance Company Wales review – comedy and menace with rumbling tums and giant steps

National Dance Company Wales in Wild Thoughts by Andrea Costanzo Martini.
A gurgle of innards … National Dance Company Wales in Wild Thoughts by Andrea Costanzo Martini. Photograph: Mark Douet

NDC Wales are a very likable bunch of dancers to spend a couple of hours with, a versatile group of 10 distinct young performers in a triple bill that shows their range. The most easily engaging piece is Andrea Costanzo Martini’s Wild Thoughts, set partly to Matthew Herbert’s track Foreign Bodies, made with sounds sampled from the human body. After the dancers have amusingly catalogued their body parts in intricate rhythm, a rumbling of innards sets off a new skein of movement, as if led by gurgling intestines. There is plenty of dancing skill, as well as entertainment value.

Codi by Anthony Matsena.
Mining the past … Codi by Anthony Matsena. Photograph: Mark Douet
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