Richard Alston Dance Company – review

Marlowe, CanterburyDuring the first minutes of Alston's latest work, it takes a serious effort of will to focus on the dance. At the back of the stage are 19 boys from Canterbury Cathedral choir, who sing the music for his setting of A Ceremony of Carols. Mere children, they hold the theatre captive – not only with the purity of their voices, but with their heart-wrenchingly adult ability to hold Benjamin Britten's complex harmonies in tension.But if the music sometimes seems to be a world wi...

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