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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
David Jays

Vollmond at Sadler’s Wells Theatre review: a watery wonderland of restless romance

You do anything for Valentine’s? Me, I took my true love to see some German tanztheater. Because nothing says romance like a giant of modern dance presenting a story of humans on the edge.

Pina Bausch’s 2006 work isn’t romantic, exactly, but its restless people hurl themselves at the hope of love, against a spectacular, elemental set design of rock and rain. Water pours down until the evening achieves exhilarating levels of splash.

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