Repetition in dance: mindbending and mesmerising, or just plain maddening? by Judith Mackrell

In the right hands, repeated phrases and movements can work a bewitching alchemy but when choreographers get it wrong, they risk sparking a scramble for the exitLucinda Childs is one of those special, stubbornly focused choreographers who knows how to work the power of repetition. In works such as Four Elements (revived by Rambert last week), she demonstrates just how much poetry and information can be concentrated …

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