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Clorinda Agonistes review – a dance of love and death on the battlefield

A crusader and a Saracen have a fateful encounter in this richly layered work by Shobana Jeyasingh Dance, set to Monteverdi and a plangent score by Syrian-American composer Kareem Roustom

The Guardian - UK · Sep 11, 2022

A rebel with a cause: how I breathed new life into Monteverdi’s Saracen warrior

It was the energy of the baroque gem Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda that first drew choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh, but its enigmatic heroine became an obsession. She explains why she has given Clorinda a new story – and an extra body

The Guardian - UK · Sep 7, 2022