The Centaur and the Animal " review
Sadler's Wells, London EC1Comte de Lautréamont's surreal, nihilistic 19th-century poetic novel Les Chants de Maldoror inspires The Centaur and the Animal: a dance involving four real horses. Lautréamont warned that his narrative's "lethal fumes" could "dissolve the soul" as "water does sugar". And it is true: one feels faint as the voiceover gets into its nightmarish stride. Yet there is no denying the slow, tormen…