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WITH Hollywood film star Alan
Rickman in the role of narrator it
was a given that this first visit to
The Point by the Jonathan Lunn
Dance Company would play to full
houses.
Add in the detail that the performance
was part written by and
included recorded commentary
from the late Anthony Minghella,
inset right, and the performances
take on an added poignancy.
Minghella and Lunn were
friends at university and collaborated
on this exploration of the
ways in which humans connect and
disconnect. Self Assembly, the
final act, was Minghella's creation,
likening human relations
to the instructions for
a newly acquired product.
Rickman acting as narrator
set the scenes with
works by Billy Collins,
Samuel Beckett, Raymond
Carver and Minghella. The
dancers put moving flesh to
words.
At times passionate, at times
indifferent, at times loving, at
times violent: humans connected,
disconnected, broke apart and
made up.
The setting was simple with
tremendous use of sound and lighting.
The company received a standing
ovation which was well
deserved, none more so than the
members of the Hampshire
Youth Dance Company.
Lunn has used other
famous names as narrator
during this tour: Juliet
Stevenson, Miranda
Richardson, Dexter Fletcher.
He has commented that if
this brings fresh audiences to
his work then all to the good.
Rickman fans at this weekend's
performances can't fail to have
been given much to consider.
11:44am Monday 30th June 2008
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